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By Cisco Systems

The Cisco Nexus 7000 platform is modular in its design, with an emphasis on redundant critical components throughout all of its subsystems. A highly modular and compartmentalized approach to systems design is applied to all facets of the platform, spanning across the physical, environmental, power, and system software aspects of its architecture. Additionally, a distinct functional separation between control plane and forwarding data plane is emphasized in its design to allow continuous operation and zero data loss during planned or unplanned control-plane events or failures. This document provides details of the high availability features and options across all of these areas to provide the reader with a better understanding of the hardware and software fault tolerance capabilities of the Cisco Nexus 7000 platform architecture.