Cisco SAN-OS
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Cisco SAN-OS is a specialized storage area network operating system developed by Cisco for managing and controlling Fibre Channel–based SAN switches and directors.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cisco SAN-OS canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7869906 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cisco SAN-OS Context triple: [Cisco NX-OS, derivedFrom, Cisco SAN-OS]
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A.
Cisco NX‑OS
Cisco NX‑OS is a data center–focused network operating system designed for high-performance, highly available switching and routing on Cisco’s Nexus platform.
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B.
Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Cisco Prime Infrastructure is a network management platform from Cisco that provides centralized monitoring, configuration, and lifecycle management for Cisco-based wired and wireless infrastructures.
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C.
Cisco IOS
Cisco IOS is Cisco Systems’ proprietary network operating system that powers many of its routers and switches, providing core routing, switching, and network services.
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D.
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI is Cisco’s software-defined networking (SDN) solution that provides centralized, policy-based automation and management for data center networks.
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E.
Cisco UCS Director
Cisco UCS Director is a data center and cloud infrastructure management platform that automates provisioning, orchestration, and lifecycle management across Cisco UCS and related environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cisco SAN-OS Target entity description: Cisco SAN-OS is a specialized storage area network operating system developed by Cisco for managing and controlling Fibre Channel–based SAN switches and directors.
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A.
Cisco NX‑OS
Cisco NX‑OS is a data center–focused network operating system designed for high-performance, highly available switching and routing on Cisco’s Nexus platform.
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B.
Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Cisco Prime Infrastructure is a network management platform from Cisco that provides centralized monitoring, configuration, and lifecycle management for Cisco-based wired and wireless infrastructures.
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C.
Cisco IOS
Cisco IOS is Cisco Systems’ proprietary network operating system that powers many of its routers and switches, providing core routing, switching, and network services.
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D.
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI is Cisco’s software-defined networking (SDN) solution that provides centralized, policy-based automation and management for data center networks.
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E.
Cisco UCS Director
Cisco UCS Director is a data center and cloud infrastructure management platform that automates provisioning, orchestration, and lifecycle management across Cisco UCS and related environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
network operating system
ⓘ
storage area network operating system ⓘ |
| designedFor |
data center SAN environments
ⓘ
enterprise storage networks ⓘ |
| developer | Cisco Systems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | Cisco NX-OS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesOn |
Fibre Channel SAN directors
ⓘ
Fibre Channel SAN switches ⓘ |
| partOfProductLine | Cisco MDS 9000 Family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rebrandedAs | Cisco NX-OS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runsOn |
Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Directors
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Fabric Switches NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
CLI management
ⓘ
FSPF routing protocol NERFINISHED ⓘ Fibre Channel routing ⓘ Fibre Channel security policies ⓘ N-Port ID Virtualization NERFINISHED ⓘ RADIUS authentication ⓘ SAN extension over IP ⓘ SNMP management ⓘ SSH management access ⓘ TACACS+ authentication ⓘ VSANs ⓘ call-home diagnostics ⓘ configuration rollback ⓘ fabric services ⓘ fabric trunking ⓘ fabric-based QoS ⓘ fabric-wide configuration management ⓘ fabric-wide firmware management ⓘ fabric-wide logging ⓘ fabric-wide name services ⓘ high availability ⓘ inter-VSAN routing ⓘ non-disruptive software upgrades ⓘ port security ⓘ port-channel aggregation ⓘ redundant control planes ⓘ role-based access control ⓘ security policies ⓘ traffic engineering ⓘ virtual SAN segmentation ⓘ zoning ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
Fibre Channel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fibre Channel over IP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
controlling Fibre Channel fabrics
ⓘ
managing storage area networks ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Cisco SAN-OS Description of subject: Cisco SAN-OS is a specialized storage area network operating system developed by Cisco for managing and controlling Fibre Channel–based SAN switches and directors.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cisco NX-OS