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)