Cisco Cisco Nexus 5010 Switch Design Guide
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Introduction
This chapter includes design recommendations for the use of Cisco Nexus
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5000 Series Switches and Cisco
Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders with virtual PortChannel (vPC) deployments.
At the time of this writing, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series includes the following products:
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Cisco Nexus 5548P Switch: This one-rack-unit (1RU) 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE) switch offers up to 960-Gbps throughput. It has up to 48 ports: 32 fixed 1- and 10-Gbps Enhanced
Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) Ethernet and FCoE ports and one expansion slot.
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Cisco Nexus 5548UP Switch: This 1RU 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE switch offers up to 960-Gbps
throughput. It has up to 48 ports: 32 fixed unified ports and one expansion slot. The unified ports can be
configured as 1- and 10-Gbps SFP+ Ethernet and FCoE ports or as Fibre Channel ports (these two
configurations are mutually exclusive).
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Cisco Nexus 5596UP Switch: This top-of-rack (ToR) 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE switch offers up to
1920-Gbps throughput and up to 96 ports. The switch has forty-eight 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE
ports and three expansion slots. These 48 ports are unified ports, which mean that they can be configured
as either 1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet (and FCoE) ports or as 1-, 2-, 4-, and 8-Gbps native Fibre Channel ports.
The use of 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 1-, 2-, 4-, and 8-Gbps Fibre Channel ports is mutually exclusive but
configurable.
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Cisco Nexus 5020 Switch: This 2RU 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE switch offers throughput of 1.04 terabits
per second (Tbps). It has up to 56 ports with 40 fixed 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports with SFP+ connectors and
two expansion slots.
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Cisco Nexus 5010 Switch: This 1RU 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE Switch offers up to 28 ports: 20 fixed
10 Gigabit Ethernet ports with SFP+ connectors and one expansion slot.
At the time of this writing, the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series includes the following products:
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Cisco Nexus 2148T Fabric Extender: This product has forty-eight 1-Gbps RJ-45 copper ports and four
10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ uplink ports.
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Cisco Nexus 2224TP GE Fabric Extender: This product provides 24 Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet
(100/1000BASE-T) server ports and two 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports in a compact 1RU form factor.
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Cisco Nexus 2248TP GE Fabric Extender: This product has forty-eight 100-Mbps and 1-Gbps copper ports
and four 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ uplink ports (it requires Cisco
®
NX-OS Software Release 4.2(1)N1(1) or
later).
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Cisco Nexus 2248TP-E Fabric Extender: This product has the same form factor and port count as the Cisco
Nexus 2248TP, but it is optimized for specialized data center workloads, such as big data, distributed
storage, and video editing, in 100-MBps and 1 Gigabit Ethernet environments. It offers a large buffer space
(32-MB shared buffer) that is designed to sustain bursty applications. This fabric extender requires Cisco
NX-OS Software Release 5.1(3)N1(1) or later.
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Cisco Nexus 2232PP 10GE Fabric Extender: This product has 1- and 10-Gbps Small Form-Factor
Pluggable (SFP) and SFP+ Ethernet ports and eight 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ uplink ports (it requires
Cisco NX-OS Release 4.2(1)N1(1) or later). The Cisco Nexus 2232PP is also suitable for FCoE traffic.
Servers can attach to the Cisco Nexus 2232PP with Twinax cables or optical connectivity in the same way
as to a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch.