Техническая Спецификация для Cisco Cisco Nexus 5010 Switch

 

 

Data Sheet 

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Cisco Adapter Fabric Extender 

The Cisco

®

 Fabric Extender architecture provides a highly scalable, unified server-access platform across a range of 

100 Megabit Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, unified fabric, copper and fiber connectivity, rack and 

blade server, single OS, and virtual embedded bridge environments and directly connected virtual machines. The 

Cisco Nexus

®

 5000 Series Switches is well suited to support today's traditional Gigabit Ethernet while allowing 

transparent migration to 10 Gigabit Ethernet and unified fabric technologies. It also allows flexible and scalable 

deployment options for virtualized environments that use virtual embedded bridges and highly optimized direct virtual 

machine connectivity. 

The Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders are the first products in the Cisco Fabric Extender architecture. With 

more than 3000 customers and more than 3 million ports sold, the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series has proven its 

exceptional business value and operational simplicity. The Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders act like remote 

line cards for a parent Cisco Nexus switch. Together, the Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders and the parent Cisco 

Nexus switch form a distributed modular system. 

Figure 1.    Cisco Fabric Extender Architecture 

 

The Cisco Fabric Extender architecture enables: 

● 

Architecture flexibility: The common, scalable, and adaptive architecture across data center racks and points 

of delivery (PoDs) is server and server adapter agnostic and supports several connectivity options, physical 

topologies, and evolving needs. 

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Highly scalable server access: Scalable Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet server access is offered, with no 

reliance on Spanning Tree Protocol.