Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches At-A-Glance

Switches to Simplify Data Center Transformation Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches simplify cable • End-to-end FCoE: FCoE is an open standards–based Cisco Nexus® 5000 Series Switches, part of the unified fabric management, allowing hosts to connect to any network protocol that encapsulates Fibre Channel over Ethernet, component of the Cisco® Data Center Business Advantage through a unified Ethernet interface and enabling faster eliminating the need for separate switches, cabling, (DCBA) architectural framework, deliver an innovative rollout of new applications and services. adapters, and transceivers for each class of traffic.This architecture to simplify data center transformation by Main Features feature dramatically decreases power consumption enabling a high-performance, standards-based, and reduces both capital expenditures (CapEx) and • High-performance, low-latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet, multi-protocol, multi-purpose, Ethernet-based fabric. operating expenses (OpEx) for businesses. delivered by a cut-through switching architecture, for They help consolidate separate LAN, SAN, and server cluster 10 Gigabit Ethernet server access in next-generation • Multi-hop FCoE: Cisco Unified Fabric unites data network environments into a single Ethernet fabric. Backed data centers center and storage networks to deliver a single by a broad system of industry-leading technology partners, • Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)–capable switches high-performance, highly available and scalable Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches are designed to meet the that support emerging IEEE Data Center Bridging (DCB) network. Cisco now delivers end-to-end data center challenges of next-generation data centers, including standards to a deliver a lossless Ethernet service with convergence from server to storage by delivering new the need for dense multisocket, multicore, virtual machine– no-drop flow control director-class, multi-hop Fibre channel over Ethernet optimized services, in which infrastructure sprawl and • Unified ports that support Ethernet, Fibre Channel, (FCoE) capability for the Nexus 7000 and MDS 9500 increasingly demanding workloads are commonplace. and FCoE platforms, adding to existing FCoE functionality on the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches provide: • A variety of connectivity options: Gigabit, 10 Gigabit Nexus 5000 switches. With the industry’s broadest • Architectural flexibility to support diverse business (fiber and copper), FCoE, and Fibre Channel selection of standards-based FCoE switches, Cisco and application needs • Converged fabric with FCoE for network consolidation, provides Unified Fabric support to both the access and • Infrastructure simplicity to decrease the total cost of reducing power and cabling requirements and core network layers, supporting all storage traffic (Fibre ownership (TCO)Increased agility and flexibility for simplifying data center networks, especially for SAN Channel, FCoE, iSCSI, and NAS) over simplified traditional deployments with easy migration to consolidation of Fibre Channel infrastructure based on loss-less 10-Gigabit Ethernet. • Virtual machine–optimized services for higher asset virtualized, unified, or high-performance computing • Virtual machine–optimized services: Cisco Nexus 5000 utilization, simplified server connections, rapid server (HPC) environments Enhanced business resilience Series Switches are designed to support provisioning, security, and quality of service (QoS) with greater operational continuity Capability to use virtualization and virtual machine mobility by mapping existing operational models and administrative domains Main Benefits virtual machines to network profiles, allowing network for easy deployment • Investment protection and operation best practices: services to be allocated on a per–virtual machine basis Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches provide a unified, With Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches, customers can centrally from the unified fabric. This capability to move converged fabric over 10 Gigabit Ethernet for LAN, SAN, and take advantage of the cost and functional benefits of a virtual machines and network profiles together eases cluster traffic. This unification enables network consolidation unified converged fabric while protecting their manageability, increases isolation, and enables and greater utilization of previously separate infrastructure investments in existing network, storage, and server consistent network and security policies. and cabling, reducing by up to 50 percent the number of assets. Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches can easily Part of the Cisco Nexus Family of Data adapters and cables required and eliminating redundant be inserted into an existing data center network to Center–Class Switches switches. This infrastructure displacement also lowers power provide immediate benefits without causing Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches are part of the Cisco and cooling costs significantly, especially for rack-optimized disruption or revision of existing design and Nexus Family of switches, offering servers similar to blade servers. operation best practices.

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• Operational manageability -- 8-port 10-Gbps SFP+ Ethernet and FCoE, plus -- Ethernet module with 6 SFP+ ports per module -- Simpler, more resilient Layer 2 and 3 networks 8-port 1/2/4/8-Gbps native Fibre Channel that support 10 Gigabit Ethernet, lossless -- Preservation of management best practices • Cisco Nexus 5548 Switch Ethernet, and FCoE • Transport flexibility -- 1RU 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE switch offering up -- Fibre Channel and Ethernet module with 4 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE DCB, and FCoE -- End-to-end FCoE-based converged fabric to 960-Gbps throughput through an SFP+ interface, and 4 ports of -- Fibre Channel -- Nexus 5548P switch version provides up to 48 ports: 32 fixed non-unified 1/10-Gbps SFP+ Ethernet and 1/2/4-Gbps native Fibre Channel connectivity -- Virtual machine–optimized services FCoE ports and one expansion slot through an SFP interface -- Lossless Ethernet service with no-drop flow control Nexus 5548UP switch version provides up to 48 ports: 32 -- Fibre Channel module with 8 ports of 1/2/4-Gbps • Infrastructure scalability fixed “unified” 1/10-Gbps SFP+ Ethernet and FCoE ports and native Fibre Channel through SFP+ ports -- Reduced power and cooling demands one expansion slot -- Fibre Channel module with 6 ports of -- Nonblocking capacity of approximately 2 terabits per 1/2/4/8-Gbps native Fibre Channel through -- Expansion modules: second (Tbps) SFP+ ports -- 160-Gbps Layer 3 routing engine Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches are based on the Cisco Figure 1. Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches NX-OS Software, which provides a networking foundation -- 16-port unified port module: 1/10-Gbps SFP+ that delivers efficiency, resiliency, virtualized services, and Ethernet and FCoE or 1/2/4/8-Gbps native Fibre extensibility. Channel -- 16-port 10-Gbps SFP+ Ethernet and FCoE Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches -- 8-port 10-Gbps SFP+ Ethernet and FCoE, plus Figure 1 shows the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches, sum- 8-port 1/2/4/8-Gbps native Fibre Channel marized here: • Cisco Nexus 5020 Switch • Cisco Nexus 5596UP Switch -- 2RU 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE switch with -- Two-rack-unit (2RU) 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE 1.04-Tbps throughput switch offering up to throughput of 1.92 terabits per -- Up to 56 ports: 40 fixed non-unified 10 Gigabit second (Tbps) Ethernet ports with SFP+ connectors and two Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders -- Up to 96 ports: 48 fixed “unified”1/10-Gbps expansion slots Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders provide a highly Enhanced Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) • Cisco Nexus 5010 Switch scalable and flexible server networking solution. The Cisco Ethernet and FCoE ports and three expansion slots -- 1RU 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE switch Nexus 2000 Series extends the capabilities and benefits -- Expansion modules: offered by upstream Cisco Nexus switches and provides a -- Up to 28 ports: 20 fixed non-unified 10 Gigabit virtualization-aware unified server-access architecture that -- 160-Gbps Layer 3 routing engine Ethernet ports with SFP+ connectors and one scales across a multitude of 100-Mbps Ethernet, Gigabit -- 16-port unified port module: 1/10-Gbps SFP+ expansion slot Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, unified fabric, and rack and Ethernet and FCoE or 1/2/4/8-Gbps native -- Expansion modules for Cisco Nexus 5020 and 5010 Fibre Channel blade server environments, helping reduce costs for data center deployments (Figure 2) -- 16-port 10-Gbps SFP+ Ethernet and FCoE

Figure 2. Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders Extend the • Cisco Nexus 2248TP GE Fabric Extender: 1RU Capabilities of Cisco Nexus Switches to Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit form-factor switch that provides 48 Fast Ethernet and Ethernet, and Unified Fabric Environments Gigabit Ethernet (100/1000BASE-T) server ports and 4 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports • Cisco Nexus 2148T Fabric Extender: 1RU form-factor switch that provides 48 fixed ports of Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for server connectivity and up to 4 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink interfaces Figure 3. Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extenders

For More Information The Cisco Nexus 2000 Series in conjunction with the Cisco • Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches: Nexus 5000 Series delivers a unified fabric over lossless http://www.cisco.com/go/nexus5000 Ethernet for LAN, storage, and HPC traffic. Unified fabric • Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders: at the server access layer provides cost benefits through http://www.cisco.com/go/nexus2000 infrastructure reduction (CapEx savings) and infrastructure • Cisco NX-OS Software: simplification (OpEx savings). The Cisco Nexus 2000 Series http://www.cisco.com/go/nxos has four fabric extender models (Figure 3):

• Cisco Nexus 2232TP 10GBASE-T Fabric Extender: 1RU form-factor switch that provides 32 1/10GBASE-T server ports and 8 10GbE SFP+ uplink ports • Cisco Nexus 2232PP 10GE Fabric Extender: 1RU form-factor switch that provides 32 10 Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE DCB and FCoE capable) SFP+ server ports and 8 10 Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE DCB and FCoE-capable) SFP+ uplink ports • Cisco Nexus 2224TP GE Fabric Extender: 1RU form-factor switch that provides 24 Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet (100/1000BASE-T) server ports and 2 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports