Cisco 3650 - Hardware model

Models	Fixed Uplinks	Total 10/100/1000 Ethernet Ports	Default AC Power Supply	Available PoE Power
WS-C3650-24TS	4 x 1Gig with SFP	24	250 WAC	-
WS-C3650-48TS	4 x 1Gig with SFP	48	250 WAC	-
WS-C3650-24PS	4 x 1Gig with SFP	24 PoE+	640 WAC	390 W
WS-C3650-48PS	4 x 1Gig with SFP	48 PoE+	640 WAC	390 W
WS-C3650-48FS	4 x 1Gig with SFP	48 PoE+	1025 WAC	775 W
WS-C3650-24TD	2 x 10 Gig  with SFP+ or 4 x 1 Gig with SFP	24	250 WAC	775 W
WS-C3650-48TD	2 x 10 Gig  with SFP+ or 4 x 1 Gig with SFP	48
WS-C3650-24PD	2 x 10 Gig  with SFP+ or 4 x 1 Gig with SFP	24 PoE+	640 WAC	390 W
WS-C3650-24PDM	2 x 10 Gig  with SFP+ or 4 x 1 Gig with SFP	24 PoE+	Fixed 640 WAC	390 W
WS-C3650-48PD	2 x 10 Gig  with SFP+ or 4 x 1 Gig with SFP	48 PoE+	640 WAC	390 W
WS-C3650-48FD	2 x 10 Gig  with SFP+ or 4 x 1 Gig with SFP	48 PoE+	1025 WAC	775 W
WS-C3650-48TQ	4 x 10 Gig with SFP+ or 4 x 1 with SFP	48	250 WAC
WS-C3650-48PQ	4 x 10 Gig with SFP+ or 4 x 1 with SFP	48 PoE+	640 WAC	390 W
WS-C3650-48FQ	4 x 10 Gig with SFP+ or 4 x 1 with SFP	48 PoE+	1025 WAC	775 W
WS-C3650-48FQM	4 x 10 Gig with SFP+ or 4 x 1 with SFP	48 PoE+	Fixed 975 WAC	775 W

Cisco Nexus Platform

Cisco Nexus platform

Nexus 7000

• Data center core, aggregation and access
• End-of-row, top-of-rack or combination of both with FEX ( Fabric Extender)

 

Nexus 7018

• 18 slot chassis
• 16 I/O module (Slot 1 – 8 & 11 -18) + 2 Supervisor ( Slot 9 and Slot 10)
• I/O module slots have full fabric connections of up to 230 Gbps with Fabric-1 installed or 550 Gbps with Fabirc-2 installed.
• The fabric bandwidth depends on the number of fabric module installed and I/O module installed.
• Side to side air flow.

 

 

Nexus 7010

• 10 slot chassis
• 8 I/O module (Slot 1 – 4 & 7 -10) + 2 Supervisor ( Slot 5 and Slot 6)
• I/O module slots have full fabric connections of up to 230 Gbps with Fabric-1 installed or 550 Gbps with Fabirc-2 installed.
• The fabric bandwidth depends on the number of fabric module installed and I/O module installed.
• Front to back air flow. (hot isel or cold isle DC desing)

 

Nexus 7009

• 9 slot chassis
• 7 I/O module (Slot 3 – 9) + 2 Supervisor ( Slot 1 and Slot 2)
• I/O module slots have full fabric connections of up to 550 Gbps with Fabirc-2 installed.
• The fabric bandwidth depends on the number of fabric module installed and I/O module installed.
• Horizontal orientation of the line card modules, side-to-side airflow.

 

Nexus 7004

• 4 slot chassis
• 7 I/O module (Slot 3-4) + 2 Supervisor ( Slot 1 and Slot 2)
• Support only supervisor 2 and 2e and M1-XL, F2, M2 and F2e I/O module.
• Does not have fabric modules.
• I/O module installed in chassis use one of the fabric connection for communication between the modules.
• Horizontal orientation of the line card modules, side-to-rear airflow.

 

 

Note:

• Supervisor 1 is EoS and EoL and replacement is Sup2E ( dual quad-core cpu with 32 GB RAM)
• M1 module support L3 feature
• F1 module support L2 feature.

 

 

 

Nexus 5000

Ideal for DC server access layer providing architectural support for virtualization and Unified fabric environment.

 

Nexus 5010

• 20 fixed wire-speed 10 Gig Ethernet interface that support IEEE DCB (Data center bridging) and FCoE.
• One expansion module, which support Native FC, Ethernet and FCoE interface.
• First 8 interface support 1GbE / 10 GbE.
• Throughput 520 Gbps

 

 

Nexus 5020

• 40 fixed wire-speed 10 Gig Ethernet interface that support IEEE DCB (Data center bridging) and FCoE.
• One expansion module, which support Native FC, Ethernet and FCoE interface.
• First 16 interface support 1GbE / 10 GbE.

 

Nexus 5548P

• 30 fixed 1/10 Gbps SFP+.
• One expansion module, which support Native FC, Ethernet and FCoE interface, for total 48 interface.
• Support L3 daughter card.

 

 

Nexus 5548UP

• 30 fixed unified port  1/10 Gbps SFP+.
• One expansion module, which support Native FC, Ethernet and FCoE interface, for total 48 interface.

 

 

• Depending on licensing and pluggable transceiver installed  unified port have one of the following characteristics
  • Traditional Ethernet
  • Fiber channel or FCoE
• Depending on the configuration, the interface can have following physical characteristics.
  • 1-gig Ethernet
  • 10 gig Ethernet
  • 10 gig Ethernet with FCoE
  • 1/2/4/8-G native Fiber Channel.
     
• Support L3 daughter card. (N55-D160)

 

Nexus 5596UP

• 48 fixed unified port  1/10 Gbps SFP+.
• 3 expansion slots, expansion module support Native FC, Ethernet and FCoE interface, for total 96 interface.
• Another expansion module option is the L3 module for 5596UP
• Depending on licensing and pluggable transceiver installed  unified port have one of the following characteristics
  • Traditional Ethernet
  • FCoE
• Depending on the configuration, the interface can have following physical characteristics.
  • 1-gig Ethernet
  • 10 gig Ethernet
  • 10 gig Ethernet with FCoE
  • 1/2/4/8-G native Fiber Channel.
     
• Support L3 daughter card. (N55-M160)

• Throughput 1.92 Tbps

 

Note:

• Nexus 5010 and 5020 do not support the following features:
  • L3 module
  • Reverse airflow
  • Fabric Path / TRILL
  • Adapter – FEX
  • VM-FEX
• Default airflow for 5K is front-to-back, back of the chassis is network port side.
• Nexus 5548UP and 5596UP support reversed airflow with power supplies and fan tray with “B” SKU/PID.
• 55XX has routing capability
• Sample SKU or PID for the Nexus 5548UP reversed airflow for the power supply and fan tray is N55-PAC-750W-B= and N55548P-FAN-B=

 

Nexus 3000

Delivers high performance and high-desity switching at ultra-low latencies. Used in environment with ultra-low latency ( < 1micro sec , ns –nano second) requirement such as HFT ( financial high frequency), chemical genomics and automotive crash-test simulation applications.

 

Nexus 3064

• 48 fixed 1/10 gig Ethernet and four fixed quad SFP+ (QSFP+ ie 4X10 GbE capable) ports.

Nexus 3048

• 48 1GE and 4 X 10 GE

Nexus 3016

• 16 QSFP+  (40GE) ports

 

Nexus 3548

• 48 fixed enhanced  SFP  (SFP+)   port support 1/10 Gbps

 

 

Nexus 2000 Fabric extenders

Fiber interface between FEX and Parent switch.

No STP or Fabric Path control plane passed between the FEX fabric interface and the parent switches.

 

Nexus 2148

• FEX
• 1000BaseT  host interface and 4 X 10 Gig  Ethernet fabric uplinks.

 

Nexus 2248

• FEX
• 48X 100/1000BaseT  host interface (no port channel and FCoE) and 4 X 10 Gig  Ethernet fabric uplinks ( 1port channel with max 4 port).
   

Nexus 2248TP-E

• 48 X 100/1000BaseT enhanced host interface and 4 X 10 Gig  Ethernet fabric uplinks.
• Enhanced FEX is buffer optimized for DATA center work load such as big data, Hadoop, video application and distributed storage.

Nexus 2224

• FEX
• 24 X 100/1000BaseT host interface (24 port channel with max 8 port in 1 channel, not FCoE) and 2 X 10 Gig Ethernet fabric uplinks (1 port channel).

 

Nexus 2232TP

• FEX
• 32 X 1/10 GE SPF+ server interface (16 port channel, only can supply FCoE or ToR location) and 8 X 10 Gig Ethernet fabric uplinks (1 port channel).

 

 

Nexus 2232TM

• FEX
• 32 X 1000BaseT / 10000BaseT GE server interface and 8 X 10 Gig Ethernet fabric uplinks.
• Today industry does not support FCoE over 10GbaseT cabling due to the bit-error rate requirements

 

Nexus 2232TM-E

• 32 X 1/10GBase T host interface and uplink module (8 X 10 Gig Ethernet fabric interface – SFP+)
• Enables 10GBase-T PHY, enabling lower power and improved bit error rate (BER)

 

 

Nexus 1000v

• NX-OS software switch that integrated into VMware hypervisor virtualized platform.
• It has two components
  • VEM ( Virtual Ethernet Module) : it is software switch embedded in the hypervisor
  • VSM (Virtual Supervisor Module): it is control plane and management plane to create polices and QoS for VM for each VEM across multiple physical hypervisor slots.

 

Cisco MDS 9000

• Multilayer SAN switches running Cisco NX-OS.
• Offers director-class platform and fabric switches.
• Offers native fiber channel, storage services and FCoE.

Cisco unified computing system (UCS)

 

 

Nexus 4000

• Blade switch for IBM’s Blade Center H and HT chassis.
• It is line-rate, low-latency, non-blocking 10 Gig Ethernet and DCB switch moduel.
• 14 fixed 10 GE  server-facing downlinks (1/10 G) and 6 fixed 10 GE SFP+ uplink (1/10G)
• FIP-snooping bridge, meaning that it cannot provide Fiber Channel Forwarder (FCF) functionality.
• It cannot participate in FCoE without a Nexus 5000/ 5500 / 7000 FCF.

 

 

B22HP- HP-FEX

• 16 X 10Gbase-KR interna host interface and 8 X 10-Gig Ethernet fabric interface ( Enhanced small form-factor pluggable)

 

 

 

 

Cisco Nexus - NX-OS

NX -OS  next generation operating system Featrue

Chapte 1 : New feature in Nexus

• Modular
  • Enable particular module in nexus
  • E.g  Feature eigrp  or No feature eighrp to enable or disable eigrp
     

• High availability à PSS - Persistence storage service: If BGP process crashes , it will not crash underlining operating system and that processes gracefully restart and it will have all state information before the crash.
• Unified os for lan and san,
  •  prior to this we had iOS  with IP protocol and SAN OS with Fiber channel protocl,
  • Reason for lan and san segregation
    • Security
    • Bandwidth
    • flow control
    • performance
  • Flow control:
    • LAN  - sender keep sending till receiver respond
    • SAN   - Receiver defines how much data transmitter can send
       
  • NX-OS 4.1 or higher run on MDS (multilayer director switch) as well as Nexus 7K as 5K.
  • Unification of lan and san using 10Gbps ethernet using FCoE

 

• Role based access
  • Privilege levels access – method is in old ios
  • Views      - access based on view  - prior to nx-os
  • In nexus there is role based access
    • Eg:  username admin password Cisco 123 role {  network-admin | network-operaor | priv-0 -15 |vdc-admin | vdc-operator }
    • Vdc-admin or vdc operator option : In N7K we can have virtual Device  context (VDCs) and have separate admin for each context.

 

• Cisco layered approach
  •  scalability
  • resilient – failover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 2 : NEXUS Family:

The nexus 7000 series

• Models:
  • 7009  -2sup slots , 7 i/o module slots
  • 7010 - 2sup slots, 8 i/o module slots
  • 7018 - 2sup slots, 16 i/o module slots
• L2/L3, DCP (data center bridging), FCoE
• ISSu ( in service software upgrade)
• VDCs (virtual device context)
• Modularity
• Separation of CP  (control plan) and DP (Data plan)
• RBAC (role based Access control)
• EEM  (Embedded event manager)
• Call home
• Dual supervisior
• Dual CMP (connectivity management processor) with own  memory , power and software. It provide lights out connectivity ( OOB )
• Dual redundant central Arbiter of particular traffic – multiple path through architecture of devices.
• Redundant fan module – hot swappable fan tray

 

Sup 1 is Eosale and EoL and replacement is Sup 2E ( dual quad-core cpu with 32GB RAM)

 

 

Licensing of software

1 default base license

2 enterprise lan license - for dynamic routing and multicast

3 advanced enterprise lan license - VDC, Cisco trust sec

4 mpls license  - mpls routing

5 transport service – OTV (Overlay transport virtualization)

6 enhance L2 services - fabric path

 

Command

Download license, store on boot flash and use following command

# install license    <-- font="" install="" license="" to="">

#Show license usage

 

Trial license: 120 day grace period for testing before buying license.

 

Modules: sup card, line card and fabric module

 

Fabric module support virtual output queuing.

 

 

 

Power Redundancy: with respect to  7010 we have similar option in UCS.

• Combined power mode – no redundancy – all power supply work together.
• Power supply redundancy  ( n +1)
• Input source redundancy ( external power failure ) / grid power redundancy
• Complete redundancy ( Power supply + input source

Nexus 7009 v6

Nexus 7009 v6.0(2) w/ SUP1, 10GE F1, 10GE M1

M1 module support L3 feature

F1 module is L2 feature

    Cisco fabric path similar to TRIL Transparent interconnection of lots of link

 

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The Nexus 5000 series

5010   - throughput 520 gigbit per secon

5020

5548

5596  -  throughput  1.92 Tbps 

 

Common features in 5500 series

DCB –data center bridging

FCoE – Fiber channel over Ethernet

GEMS – generic expansion module slot – add FCoE

 

55XX L3 routing capability,

 routing can be enabled on

5548  with N55 –D160 L3 card.

5596 with N55-M160 L3

Port density is different in each model e.g in 5596 96 à 96 1 gig Ethernet port density

 

Nexus 5548 v5.1 (3)

Feature : unified port

 

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The Nexus 2000 series

Function at Top or rack ToR, all c-series devices are connected to N2K device on ToR and N2K are managed by N5K device at EoR ( End of Rack)

 

2000 series are called a FEX – fabric extender

 

Redundancy using 2000 ToR and 5000 EoR

 

 

 

Model  nexus 2000 series  ( scalability ,oversubscription,  host port and fabric port )

• 2148  
  • 4 X 10G fabric port,  1 port channel with max 4 port,  48 host port but no port channel, no FCoE
• 2224  
  • 2 X 10G fabric port, 1 port channel port,  24 X 1G host port 24 port channel with max 8 port in one of the port channle, no FCoE
• 2248
  • 4 X 10G fabric port, 1 port channel port,  48 X 1G host port 24 port channel , no FCoE

 

• 2232
  • 8 X 10G fabric port, 1 port channel ,  32 X fiber optic host port 16port channel , only can supply FCoE on ToR location

 

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Nexus 1000v v4.2   virtualized Ethernet module or supervisior moduel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 3: MDS family (multilayer director switch)

9500 series

9124

9148

9222i

 

 

9500

• TABLE:

Model   --  FC port density

9506  --     192

9509   --    336

9513 --     528

• nonblocking - virtual output queuing

Requirement  for  SAN - not packet loss and low latency

 

• high bandwidth  2.2 Tbs internal bandwidh / 160 gbps (16 ISL bundle)

 

• Low latency – less than 20microsecond per hop

 

• Mulit protocol  ( FC, FC0E, FICON, FCIP, iSCSI)
   
• Scalable – VSAN (virtual storage Area network ) Cisco invension

 

• Secure - port security

 

• High availability – dual sup, dual clock, dual power

 

 

• sup2 (no FCoE) and sup2-A (FCoE),  Intercross bar Fabric (traffic cop) in 9506 and 9509 in 9513 will have separate intercross bar fabric module

 

• Licensing types of MDS – feature based and module based.
   
  • feature based
    • ENt –security
    •  sanover ip – FCIP
    • main frame – FICON
  • -module based

 

 

 

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Cisco MDS 9124

24 port – 8 default and 16 on-demand port

NPV (n port virtualization)

 

Cisco MDS 9148

  16-32-48 base license

 

Cisco MDS 9222i

Flexible with expansion slot support vide verity of module

18 FC 4gbps Ethernet port used for FCIP / iSCSI

 

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NEXUS switch and NX-OS

NEXUS architecture:

# sh ver

software

• BIOS    version 2.12.0
• Kickstart image- contains linux           7K kernel  version 6.2(2), 5K 5.1(3)
• System – contain software component of NX  multilayer director switch

Hardware

• Supervisor : intel xenon  ,  12 gb memory

Plug-in

• Core plugin – contain nx os software component
• Ethernet – L2 and  L3 software component
• In future we will see – Storage plugin – for FCoE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 4 : Monitoring Nexus Switch

Monitoring the Nexus

• Rj 45 console is located on sup card.
• Nexus 7000 with sup 1 engine with cmp (connectivity management processor) with dedicated O.S for OOB management access. Has led for notification and local authentication. Sup 2 don’t have this capability
• To connect to cmp we use command # attach
  • Attach console | module | cmp
• Remote acces:
  • Ssh v2 is enabled by default, ssh / telnet clinet & server capability , ip v4 and v6 supported
  • In cmp  use command  # ssh server enable or # telnet server enable
• Management
  • Support concept of VRF, by default there are two VRF ( default and management vrf) exist in nexus switch.
  • Management interface is in management vrf. To test connectivity for management purpose is  # ping 10.10.10.10 vrf management
• ISSU (in service software upgrade)
  • Upgrade with no disruption , data plane continue forwarding packet during upgrade proces
  • 4.2.1
  • Kickstart, bios, system, fex (2000 series), i/o module bios and image
  • Started with 7000 series which has dual sup card, first upgrade standby sup engine, then upgrade second sup engine. This feature is also now supported in 5000 series which has single sup engine. Here control plane will be offline during upgrade. If 5500 series with L3 functionality it will not support ISSU.
  • Steps for 5000 series
    • Download appropriate software Cisco.com/go/fn (feature navigator)
    • Copy tftp à boot  flash
    • Show incompatibility  ( show incompatible with new image) ß pre upgrade command
    • Show install all impact ( shows impact of upgrade) ß pre upgrade command
    • Show install all status   ç post upgrade to verify installation status.
• Control plane policing
  • Data plane
  • Mgmt plane – snmp
  • Control plan – L2 stp, LAcP, L3 ospf , bgp
    • CoPP control plan policing – restrict number of packet entering CP. There is  default CoPP, during installation it ask for strict , moderate, lenient or no default policy.
• KEY  CLI command
  • Where – shows mode, which VDC
  • Show run ipqos | all   allà show everything including default
  • Sho run interface all
  • Show module
  • Show loggin