Cisco Switch Guide Scalable, Intelligent LAN Switching for Campus, Branch, and Data Center Networks of All Sizes
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Cisco Switch Guide Scalable, intelligent LAN switching for campus, branch, and data center networks of all sizes Cisco® Nexus 7000, Catalyst® 6500 and Catalyst 4500 Series Modular Switches Cisco Nexus 5000, Nexus 3000, Catalyst 4900, Catalyst 3750-X, Catalyst 3750, Catalyst 3560-X, Catalyst 3560, Catalyst 2960-S, Catalyst 2960, and Fixed-Configuration Switches, Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender, Nexus 4000 Blade Switches, Nexus 1000V Virtual Switches, and Optics Cisco’s Portfolio of LAN Switches Scalable, intelligent LAN switching for Campus, Branch, and Data Center networks of all sizes. This is your guide to Cisco’s portfolio of switches, the industry’s most advanced and versatile portfolio of modular, fixed-configuration, blade, and virtual LAN switches for your campus, branch, or data center. Individually, these switches offer the performance and features required for nearly any deployment, from traditional small workgroups, wiring closets, and network cores, to highly virtualized and converged corporate data centers. Working together, they are the building blocks of an integrated network that delivers scalable and intelligent services protecting, optimizing, and growing your network as your business needs evolve. The network is the platform delivering business agility and efficiency. However, the proliferation of connected devices coupled with new requirements around secure application delivery, bandwidth-intense rich media applications, energy efficiency, as well as the need to deliver access to these applications anywhere, anytime, has left networks, and network managers, looking for holistic and simple solutions to their business challenges. Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking systems for organizations of every size, offers an architectural approach to networking that makes it easy for organizations to adapt and grow within and across geographic boundaries. Through a secure and intelligent infrastructure that delivers non-stop application availability and performance coupled with seamless scalability, supporting a growing number of connected devices, rich media applications, as well as physical and virtual resources in a converged infrastructures is made simple. Cisco Switches Quick Reference Guide Introduction Cisco Switch Overview..........................................................4 Cisco Campus Switching Feature Comparison . 16 Cisco Data Center Switching Feature Comparison . 52 Cisco Switching Transition Guide .............................................70 Cisco Modular Switches Introduction .....................................................................85 Cisco Nexus 7000 Series . 87. Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series . 103 Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series . 119 Cisco Fixed-Configuration Switches Introduction ...................................................................135 Nexus 5000 Series Switches ................................................137 Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series................................................147 Nexus 3000 Series . 153 Cisco Catalyst 4900 Series . 173 Cisco Catalyst 3750-X Series................................................179 Cisco Catalyst 3750v2 Series . 191 Cisco Catalyst 3560-X Series................................................199 Cisco Catalyst 3560V2 Series ...............................................211 Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series................................................217 Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series . 229 Cisco Catalyst Compact Switches Cisco Catalyst 3560-C and Catalyst 2960-C Series . 239 Cisco Fabric Extender Technology Nexus 2000 Series . 249 Blade Switches Nexus 4000 Series . 261 Virtual Switches Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches . 267 Optics Optics Introduction . 270 Introduction Series Overview Intelligent Switching for the Integrated Network Modular Switches Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches are Cisco’s Flagship modular switching platform for data center Unified Fabric deployments and for highly scalable campus core deployments. They are designed for exceptional 10 GE, 40 GE and 100 GE scalability with the industry’s highest resiliency features and unmatched deployment flexibility for the data center core, aggregation, access and campus core. It’s industry leading NX-OS innovations and robust feature set enable you to build the next generation network fabrics for both data centers and campus. System Scalability: Network Consolidation and Designed for up to 17Tbps of Segmentation: switching capacity and high density The Nexus 7000 offer numerous 10 GE, 40 GE and 100 GE, the industry leading innovations for modular 9, 10- or 18-slot chassis converging and segmenting the scales up to 768 1 GE ports or 768 network infrastructure, LANs and 10 GE ports or 96/32 40/100GE WANs, significantly lowering TCO. ports. Paired with the Nexus 2000 Virtual Device Contexts (VDC), Series, the Nexus 7000 can scale to virtualize a single physical switch 32 fabric extenders, supporting up into multiple secure (PCI certified) to 1536 Gigabit Ethernet servers per logical switches for infrastructure Cisco Nexus 7000 chassis. consolidation. FCoE enables LAN and SAN network consolidation from Network Scalability: server to storage, reducing network Beyond the system scalability, the sprawl while increasing network Nexus 7000 offers several features agility. Other key features that enable to scale the network itself. Cisco WAN and LAN segmentation and FabricPath enables customers to convergence include MPLS, OTV, massively scale Layer 2 networks and VRF. up to 160+ Tbps without the use of spanning-tree. For IP network Virtualization and Cloud scalability, Location/ID Seperation Enablement: Protocol (LISP), enables IP The Nexus 7000 and NX-OS portability and dynamic IP route innovations enable highly scalable look-up significantly increasing the virtualization deployments for scalability of layer 3 IP networks. both intra and inter data center deployments, essentially allowing Operational Continuity: any workload, any location at Designed from the ground up with any scale. FabricPath enables a the goal of delivering continuous highly scalable fabric for large operations, the Nexus 7000 and virtualized server deployments, NX-OS deliver a predictable and enabling workload mobility across highly resilient switching platform the data center. OTV and LISP for the most demanding network allow seamless workload mobility environments. With granular process between geographically separated modularity, automatic fault isolation data centers and also for bursting and containment, the industry’s workloads to cloud providers. only true hitless In Service Software These and other features on the Uprade (ISSU) capability and tightly Nexus 7000 establish the foundation integrated hardware resiliency for large scale virtualization and features, the Nexus 7000 running cloud enablement. NX-OS delivers the industry’s most reliable operating system for operational continuity. 4 From edge to core, Cisco switches provide a complete range of services for all levels of application intelligence, unified network services, integrated security, virtualization, non-stop communications and operational manageability. Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series • Flagship Catalyst switching services Virtual Switching System Integrates Services and platform for core-distribution • Activates all available bandwidth Operational Efficiency deployments across redundant Catalyst • Helps unify, simplify, and economize • Virtual Switching System bolsters 6500 systems and eliminates your network with next-generation availability and scales to 4-terabit assymmetric routing integrated services modules capacity • Supports interchassis stateful • Facilitates multiple generations • Up to 160 gigabits per slot; 100 failover and provides deterministic of components on one chassis Gigabit Ethernet ready subsecond recovery through a modular design • Simplifies creation of separate • Provides single point of • Monitors switches across the logical networks with Easy Virtual management network with Switched Port Network (EVN) • Eliminates need for First-Hop Analyzer (SPAN)/Remote Switched Resiliency Protocol (FHRP), Port Analyzer (RSPAN) and • Integrated services modules virtually connects an analyzer to enhance security, manageability, supports simplified loop-free topologies almost any port on the network and wireless control with Encapsulated Remote SPAN Efficiently scale, virtualize, secure, Network Virtualization (ERSPAN) and manage your network • Offers infrastructure consolidation • Provides application visibility remotely with Cisco Catalyst by providing segmentation, path through flexible, egress, sampled 6500 Series Switches. Offering isolation, privacy, limited fate Netflow, and CPU Preserving a high-performance, feature-rich sharing, membership definition, Netflow Export platform suitable for deployment in and address space separation campus, data center, WAN, and Metro technologies • Offers image recovery and console Ethernet networks, the Cisco Catalyst logging through the Connectivity • Delivers end-to-end network 6500 Series provides a strong Management Processor (CMP) virtualization using IP/MPLS foundation for Borderless Networks, technologies. • Delivers onboard packet capture so you can connect anyone, with Mini Port Analyzer anywhere, at any time. Security Scale Performance and • Identifies (802.1x suite) , tags (SGT), encrypts (MacSec), and enforces Network Services (Security Group Access Control • 2 terabits per second (Tbps) fabric List) with Cisco TrustSec delivers 80 Gbps switching