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Cisco Nexus 7000 Series OTV Documentation Roadmap

Revised: July 8, 2010

This document describes the user documentation available for the Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) on the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series products. To find a document online, use one of the links in this document.

This document includes the following sections:

• Release Notes, page 1

• Understanding OTV, page 1

• Solutions Overviews and White Papers, page 2

• Configuration Information, page 2

• Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request, page 2

Release NotesUse the following documents to get the most current information about the open and resolved caveats for the Cisco NX-OS software:

• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Release Notes, Release 5.x

• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series FPGA/EPLD Upgrade Release Notes, Release 5.x

Understanding OTVUse the following resources to understand OTV and create a simple OTV network:

• Cisco OTV Overview (Flash)

• Cisco OTV Solution At-A-Glance (pdf)

• Fundamentals of OTV (video)

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Solutions Overviews and White Papers

• Cisco OTV FAQ

• Under the Covers with OTV (Cisco blog post)

• Data Center Interconnect Show Notes (Cisco blog post)

Solutions Overviews and White PapersUse the following resources to understand the benefits of OTV:

• Workload Mobility Across Data Centers (white paper)

• Cisco OTV Data Center Interconnect (video)

• Overlay Transport Virtualization for Geographically Dispersed Virtual Data Centers: Improve Application Availability and Portability (solution brief)

• Technology Comparison: Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization and Virtual Private LAN Service as Enablers of LAN Extensions (white paper)

Configuration InformationUse the following documents to configure a Cisco OTV network:

• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series OTV Quick Start Guide

• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS OTV Configuration Guide, Release 5.x

• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS OTV Command Reference, Release 5.x

• Cisco NX-OS Licensing Guide

• Cisco NX-OS System Messages Reference

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service RequestFor information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What’s New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html

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