Features, Benefit & Hardware

Advantage Of Cisco NX-OS

NX-OS is based on the industry-proven cisco storage

area network operating system(SAN-OS)

Unified data center operating system
Robust & rich feature sets
Flexibility & scalability
Modularity
Virtualization
Resiliency(capacity to recover quickly)
IPv4 & IPv6 routing & multicast features
Comprehensive security

Features & Benefits Of NX-OS

Virtual Device Contexts (VDC)
Virtual Port Channel (vPC)

Continuous System Operation (ISSU)

Security (802.1AE link layer crypto with 128 bit AES)
Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV)

NX-OS Persistent Storage Services (PSS)-Checkpoint

Fabric Path

Nexus 7000 Platforms

Provides an end-to-end data center architecture on

single platform including data center core, aggregation

& access layer
Form Factors Of & Nexus 7000
Nexus 7018
Nexus 7010
Nexus 7009
Nexus 7004

Nexus 7018
18-slot chassis
Supports 16 I/O modules (1 through 8 & 11 through 18)

Slots 9 & 10 are reserved for Supervisor module

I/O module slots provides upto 230 gbps with Fabric-1

& 550 gbps with fabric-2 installed

Fabric bandwidth depends on the no. of fabric module
installed & the I/O modules installed
Horizontal arrangements of slots
Side-to-side airflow

Nexus 7010
10-slot chassis
Supports 8 I/O modules (1 through 4 & 7 through 10)
Slots 5 & 16 are reserved for Supervisor module
I/O module slots provides upto 230 gbps with Fabric-1

& 550 gbps with fabric-2 installed

Fabric bandwidth depends on the no. of fabric module
installed & the I/O modules installed
Vertical arrangements of slots
Front-to-back airflow

Nexus 7009
9-slot chassis
Supports 7 I/O modules (3through 9)

Slots 1 & 2 are reserved for Supervisor module

I/O module slots provides upto 230 gbps with Fabric-1

& 550 gbps with fabric-2 installed

Fabric bandwidth depends on the no. of fabric module
installed & the I/O modules installed
Horizontal arrangements of slots
Side-to-side airflow

Nexus 7004
4-slot chassis
Supports 2 I/O modules (3through 4)
Slots 1 & 2 are reserved for Supervisor module
No fabric module
Side-to-side airflow

Supervisor
Dedicated connectivity management processor (CMP) to

support remote management and troubleshooting of the

complete system
System fabric for all line cards

The supervisor controls:

Layer 2 and Layer 3 services
Redundancy capabilities
Configuration management
Status monitoring
Power and environmental management

CMP
Remote control through its own dedicated processor,

memory, and bootflash memory and a separate

Ethernet management port
Can reset all system components, including power
supplies & host supervisor module and allow a
complete system restart.
Only on sup 1

Line Cards
M Line Card

F Line Card

Layer 3 cards

Layer 2 cards only

FEX

Fabric Path

OTV

vPC

Cisco TrustSec (CTS)

FCoE

Nexus 5000 Platforms

Ideal for the data center server access layer
Support virtualization & unified fabric environments

Form-factor for Nexus 5000

Nexus 5010
Nexus 5020
Nexus 5548P
Nexus 5548UP
Nexus 5596UP

Nexus 5010
20 fixed wire-speed 10 Gigabit ethernet & support

IEEE data center bridging(DCB) & FC0E

1 expansion module- Fiber channel, Ethernet & FCoE
interface
Front-to-back airflow

Nexus 5020

40 fixed wire-speed 10 Gigabit ethernet & support

IEEE data center bridging(DCB) & FC0E

2 expansion module- Fiber channel, Ethernet & FCoE
interface
Front-to-back airflow

Nexus 5548P

32 fixed 1/10 Gbps fixed SFP (Small form-factor

pluggable )
1 expansion slot- Fiber channel, Ethernet & FCoE
interface
Supports a Layer 3 daughtercard

Nexus 5548UP
32 fixed Unified ports 1/10 Gbps fixed SFP
1 expansion slot- Fiber channel, Ethernet & FCoE

interface
Supports a Layer 3 daughtercard

Nexus 5596UP

48 fixed Unified ports 1/10 Gbps fixed SFP

3 expansion slot- Fiber channel, Ethernet & FCoE

interface
Layer 3 expansion module

Nexus 2000 FEX

1 Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, unified fabric,

rack, and blade server environments

front-to-back or back-to-front cooling, compatibility
two types of ports:
ports for end-host attachment (host interfaces)
uplink ports (fabric interfaces)
Fabric Interfaces are differentiated with a yellow color for
connectivity to the upstream parent Cisco Nexus
switch