Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor Module N7K-SUP1 Data Sheet
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N7K-SUP1
Data Sheet
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Features and Benefits
Supervisor Module
The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor Module delivers a comprehensive set of features to
address the needs of the most demanding data center deployments.
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Continuous system operation
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Active and standby supervisor
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Segmented and redundant out-of-band provisioning and management paths
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Virtualization of the management plane
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Integrated diagnostics and protocol decoding with an embedded control plane packet
analyzer
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Upgradeable architecture
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Fully decoupled control plane and data plane with no hardware forwarding on the module
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Distributed forwarding architecture, allowing independent upgrades of the supervisor and
fabric
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Unified Fabric ready
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Transparent upgrade capacity and capability; designed to support 40 Gigabit and 100
Gigabit Ethernet
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Superior operational efficiency
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System locator and beacon LEDs for simplified operations
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Dedicated out-of-band management processor for ‘lights out’ management
Supervisor Connectivity Management Processor (CMP)
The CMP provides a complete out-of-band management and monitoring capability independent
from the primary operating system. The CMP enables ‘lights out’ remote monitoring and
management of the supervisor module, all modules and the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series system
without the need for separate terminal servers with the associated additional complexity and cost.
The CMP delivers the remote control through its own dedicated processor, memory, and boot flash
memory and a separate Ethernet management port. The CMP can reset all system components,
including power supplies; it can also reset the host supervisor module to which it is attached,
allowing a complete system restart.
Table 1 summarizes the features and benefits of the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor Module.
Table 1.
Features and Benefits
Feature
Benefit
Supervisor
High-performance dual-core Intel Xeon
processor
processor
The multithreaded operating system runs on a dedicated dual-core processor.
The flexible dual-core design harnesses the maximum processing power for
control plane processing with enhanced reliability.
The flexible dual-core design harnesses the maximum processing power for
control plane processing with enhanced reliability.
High availability
Two supervisor modules operate in active and standby modes with stateful
supervisor failover to enhance total system availability.
supervisor failover to enhance total system availability.
Resilient dedicated connectivity to each
fabric and I/O module slot
fabric and I/O module slot
Dual redundant Ethernet out-of-band channels to each module and fabric
provide resilience for communication between the control and line card
processors.
provide resilience for communication between the control and line card
processors.
Centralized arbiter
Active-active control of the flow of traffic through the switch fabric helps ensure
transparent switchover with no losses.
transparent switchover with no losses.