Cisco Nexus 6000 Switches Licensing Options

Different types of licenses are required for the Nexus 6000. Table 2-12 describes each license and the features it enables. It is worth mentioning that Nexus switches have a grace period, which is the amount of time the features in a license package can continue functioning without a license, enabling a licensed feature that does not have a license key to start a counter on the grace period. You then have 120 days to install the appropriate license keys, disable the use of that feature, or disable the grace period feature. If at the end of the 120-day grace period the device does not have a valid license key for the feature, the Cisco NX-OS software automatically disables the feature and removes the ...

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