CISCO NEXUS SERIES

2K 5K 7K

Introducing Cisco Nexus Family

Nexus is a modular network switch

introduced on January 28, 2008
Designed for the data center
(optimized for high-density 10
Gigabit Ethernet.)
Its throughput is beyond 15 Tbps.
It has a modular NX-OS
firmware/operating system

The Nexus switches family range:

- Nexus 1000v virtual switch

- Nexus 2000 fabric extender

- Nexus 3000 series

- Nexus 4000 IBM Blade Center switch

- Nexus 5000 series

- Nexus 7000 series modular datacenter

switches

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series

Data Center Class Switches

Usability focused for demanding

operational environments

Delivers a unified fabric and I/O

15+ Tb/s scalable switching

capacity

The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was

designed around three principles:
1- Infrastructure scalability:
Virtualization, efficient power and
cooling, high density, and performance
all support efficient data center
infrastructure growth.

2-Operational continuity: The Cisco

Nexus design integrates hardware, NXOS software features, and management
to support zero-downtime
environments.

3-Transport flexibility: You can

incrementally and cost-effectively
adopt new networking innovations and
technologies, such as:

Cisco Overlay Transport

Virtualization (OTV)
Cisco FabricPath
Fibrer Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Cisco IOS Multiprotocol Label
Switching (MPLS)

Nexus VS 65XX :

- Virtual port channel (VPC) : VPC is

similar to VSS of the 65K's.

- Virtual device context (VDC) :

With VDC you virtually divide your switch

up to 4
different virtual switches
and allocate hardware resources to them

- 65K's can perform all the functions...

Nexus still doesn't support service
modules like FWSM, load balancers etc...

Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV):

- It makes multiple DC as one Dc.

- The NX7k switch has MAC add table for each NX7k
switch
- The MAC add tables are automatically shared
- It stops spanning tree protocol
- In multicast : Just one copy sent to the core

Cisco FabricPath :

- Combines the simplicity of L2 domain with

scalability of L3 domain , Creates (L2 routing tables)
- No blocking , send through all links, down link will
be excluded.
- Shortest path will be used

- Add fabricpath Switch destination header

- Add server any where in the dc

Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) :

- Allow the server to connect to the San

and the LAN through one link

Hitless software upgrade by :

- In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)

Cisco Data Center Network

Manager:
- Management tool

Nexus 7000 Hw specifications :

- Delivers high-density 10, 40, and 100 Gigabit

Ethernet

- provide parallel fabric channels to each I/O

and supervisor module slot

- Up to five simultaneously active fabric

modules work together delivering up to 230
Gbps per slot
46 Gbps per slot per fabric ( 46*5 fabric = 230
Gbps per slot )
- 46 is for fabric 1 , in fabric 2 its 110 per slot
- With 550G per slot, scales to more than 17
Tbps switching capacity

New Nexus 7000 Supervisor Engines :

- Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor 2

and 2E Modules deliver increased control
plane performance and system scalability

- Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor 2

has twice the CPU performance of the
Supervisor 1 Module

- Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor 2E

performance is Four times the CPU
performance of the Supervisor 1 Module

Extending the Cisco Nexus Family

Data Center Class Switches
Operational
Continuity

Transport
Flexibility

Simpler More Stable Layer 2

Network
Highly Available Platform
Preserves operational best
practices
FCoE based Unified Fabric
Virtualization Optimized
Networking
Support for GE, FCoE, DCE, and FC

Infrastructure
Scalability

Reduces power, cooling, cabling

Up to 52 non-blocking 10GbE
Up to 1.2 Tbps capacity

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series

56-Port L2 Switch
40 Ports 10GE/FCoE/DCE,
fixed
2 Expansion module slots

Fibre Channel
8 Ports 1/2/4G FC

FC + Ethernet
4 Ports
10GE/FCoE/DCE
4 Ports 1/2/4G FC

Ethernet
6 Ports 10GE/FCoE/DCE

NX-OS
NX-OS
Cisco DC-OS
Cisco
DC-NM
andDC-OS
Fabric Manager
DC-NM and Fabric Manager

Nexus 5000 Platform

NX-OS :
- NX-OS two images kickstart image
and system image.
- Not all the features are enabled by
default... for example if you want to
use OSPF... you firstly have to enable
the feature. ... (feature ospf)
- All the features are licensed... This is
not very bad... considering that an
enterprise licenses gets almost all of

You don't have to prefix "do" in front of

your "privilege level show commands"
if you are in configuration mode
The routing protocol configuration is
more on the interface level like in
IPV6... ipv6 enable
NX-OS CANNOT NAT"; no NAT command
on NX-OS... unusual as it is one of the
common L3 feature on any cisco
device.
No F and GE in the commands all are
Ethernet
There aren't any speed designations in the
interface name.

no "write" command you have to use the

big old "copy run start
The " sh tech-support" gives you never
ending data... its HUGE MB's of data
Supports VTP only in transparent mode
- Doesn't support PAGP supports only LACP
- It doesn't support EIGRP unicast
neighborship...
The "sh run" has a lot of minor
components which makes it easier to look
at the configuration... like "sh run
rpm"(route processor module) : gives you
all the route policy config like route-maps
and prefix lists

Thank you