Cisco Nexus 7000 Incremental VDC License | Data Center, Virtualization — L-N7K-VDC1K9=

Add virtual device context capacity to Cisco Nexus 7000 environments with a license built for controlled scale. Each entitlement adds 4 VDCs, giving infrastructure teams a practical way to segment networks, separate workloads, and extend the life of an existing chassis investment. This license is suited to organizations that need more logical separation without introducing another switching layer. It helps preserve operational boundaries for multi-tenant environments, lab and production separation, or application-specific network domains. For teams standardizing on Nexus 7000, incremental VDC licensing provides a cleaner path to expansion than hardware replacement. Because VDCs are a core part of Nexus 7000 virtualization architecture, this license is most valuable where policy, fault isolation, and administrative separation matter. It supports deliberate growth in environments where downtime, re-cabling, or platform migration would be more expensive than extending the current design. Use it when the network design is already proven and the requirement is more logical scale, not a new switching platform. Ideal For Expanding VDC count in an existing Nexus 7000 data center Separating production, test, and tenant traffic on one chassis Adding logical network domains without new switching hardware Extending a Cisco virtualization design during capacity planning Why This Product 1 Adds 4 VDCs per license instead of requiring platform replacement 2 Fits existing Nexus 7000 virtualization designs 3 Supports stronger logical separation for shared infrastructure 4 Targets capacity growth where segmentation matters more than raw port count