Product Overview

The increasing number of applications requiring greater bandwidth and the availability of less expensive 10-Gbps servers are fueling a growing demand for dense 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switches. At the same time, data center architecture is evolving in response to new demands on the IT infrastructure. Application workloads are being deployed across a mix of virtualized and physical server and storage infrastructure, requiring a network infrastructure that provides consistent connectivity, security, and visibility across a range of bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud computing environments.

The Cisco Nexus® 5600 platform Gigabit Ethernet switches are the third generation of the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches: the leading data center server access switches. The Cisco Nexus 5600 platform, the successor to the widely adopted Cisco Nexus 5500 platform, maintains all the existing Cisco Nexus 5500 platform features, including LAN and SAN convergence (unified ports and Fibre Channel over Ethernet [FCoE]), fabric extenders, and Cisco® FabricPath. In addition, the Cisco Nexus 5600 platform offers integrated line-rate Layer 2 and 3 capabilities with true 40 Gigabit Ethernet support, Cisco’s programmable fabric innovation, Network Virtualization Using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE), Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) bridging and routing capabilities, excellent network programmability and visibility, large buffer capacity, and significantly greater scale and performance for highly virtualized, automated, and cloud environments.

The Cisco Nexus 5600 platform 40-Gbps switches include 1-rack-unit (1RU), 2RU, and 4RU configurations for a flexible, agile, and energy-efficient design. The Cisco Nexus 5600 platform complements existing Cisco Nexus switches and is an important component of the Cisco Unified Data Center architecture. The platform offers 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE with integrated Layer 2 and 3 features at wire speed. It also offers low latency: approximately 1 microsecond for any packet size. With a choice of port-side intake and fan-side intake airflow options to align with cold-aisle and hot-aisle placement within the data center, the Cisco Nexus 5600 platform 40-Gbps switches are designed for a broad range of traditional data center and large-scale virtualized cloud deployments.

The Cisco Nexus 5600 platform with the Cisco NX-OS Software operating system provides customers with features and capabilities that are widely deployed in data centers around the world. NX-OS is a purpose-built data center operating system designed for performance, resiliency, scalability, manageability, and programmability. It meets Ethernet and storage networking requirements, providing a robust and comprehensive feature set that can meet the demanding requirements of virtualization and automation in present and future data centers.

The Cisco Nexus 5600 platform is designed for top-of-rack (ToR) and middle-of-row (MoR) deployment in data centers that support enterprise applications, service provider hosting, and cloud computing environments. The Cisco Nexus 5600 platform delivers dense 40 Gigabit Ethernet switching that is well suited for cloud, big data, and virtualized environments.

Cisco Nexus 5696Q Switch: The Cisco Nexus 5696Q is a 4RU 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switch with the industry’s highest port density. Its compact, energy-efficient form factor offers eight line-card expansion-module (LEM) slots to support 40 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE, and 8/4/2-Gbps Fibre Channel, making it the most versatile switch in the Cisco Nexus 5600 platform. The Cisco Nexus 5696Q supports 7.68 Tbps of bandwidth across 96 ports of 40 Gbps when fully loaded.

Cisco Nexus 5696Q expansion modules offer multiple interface options with the chassis base. The Cisco Nexus 5696Q supports a 40 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet LEM with QSFP+ optics. Each 40 Gigabit Ethernet expansion module provides 12 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE ports using a QSFP interface, or 48 ports of 10 Gbps using breakout cables. With all eight expansion modules installed, the Cisco Nexus 5696Q delivers 96 ports of QSFP or 384 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (SFP+) using breakout cables. All expansion modules are hot swappable.

Features and Benefits

The following are some of the primary features of the Cisco Nexus 5600 platform 40-Gbps switches:

- Optimization for virtualization and cloud deployments: Today, high-performance servers deployed in the cloud can support more virtual machines and workloads than ever before. But deploying new servers on demand puts additional strain on the network fabric. The Cisco Nexus 5600 platform 40-Gbps switches address this challenge by providing scalability and performance, making the platform excellent for meeting current and future needs.

- Density and resilience: Built for today’s data centers, the switches are designed just like the servers they support. Ports and power connections are at the rear, close to server ports, helping keep cable lengths as short as possible and delivering to rack servers benefits traditionally offered only on blade servers. Hot-swappable power and fan modules can be accessed from the front panel, where status lights offer an at-a-glance view of switch operation. Front-to-back or back-to-front cooling is consistent with server designs, supporting efficient data center hot- and cold-aisle designs. Serviceability is enhanced with all customer-replaceable units accessible from the front panel.

- Energy efficiency: The Cisco Nexus 5600 platform 40-Gbps switches help data centers operate within their space, power, and cooling parameters while reducing their carbon footprints. The switch power supplies are also capable of maintaining 90 percent efficiency at load conditions as low as 25 percent utilization. This capability allows the switches to make efficient use of power while still being appropriately sized to support the conditions of a full system load.

- Low latency: Cut-through switching enables these switches to support approximately 1 microsecond of port-to-port latency for any packet size with features enabled.

- Intelligent Cisco Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) and Encapsulated SPAN (ERSPAN): SPAN and ERSPAN can be used for troubleshooting and robust monitoring of traffic. The SPAN and ERSPAN capabilities are nondisruptive, with only extra bandwidth capacity used for SPAN and ERSPAN traffic. Enhancements include more efficient allocation of bandwidth to SPAN and ERSPAN traffic whereby any fabric bandwidth not used for data traffic can be allocated to SPAN or ERSPAN traffic. The switch can support up to 31 line-rate SPAN and ERSPAN sessions.

- Flexible buffer management: The Cisco Nexus 5600 platform 40-Gbps switches support a 25-MB packet buffer shared by every 3 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet or every 12 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Each 100G port has a dedicated 25-MB packet buffer. The flexible buffer management capability allows dynamic tuning of the sizes of the shared and dedicated buffers in the event of congestion.

- Multicast enhancements: Line-rate Layer 2 and 3 multicast throughput for all frame sizes is also supported on these switches. They offer optimized multicast replication through the fabric and at the egress point. Support is provided for 32,000 multicast routes and for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping tables in hardware. Multicast enhancements include flow-based hashing for multicast traffic over a port channel and enhanced Bidirectional Protocol-Independent Multicast (Bidir-PIM) support. The switch also supports IP-based forwarding for IGMP snooping.

Hardware Specifications :

Cisco Nexus 5696Q

- Up to 96 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE ports through the use of 8 expansion modules

- 12-port 40 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE expansion module

- 20-port unified expansion module

- 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface with QSFP breakout cable

- 1 Gigabit Ethernet interface through a QSFP-to-SFP and SFP+ adapter (QSA)

- Fabric extension through the Cisco Nexus 2200 and 2300 platforms

- Support for up to 256,000 combined entries of MAC addresses and Address Resolution Prototol (ARP) entries

- Low-latency of approximately 1 microsecond using cut-through forwarding for predictable, consistent traffic latency regardless of packet size, traffic pattern, or features enabled on 40 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces

- 25-MB buffer per 12 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ interfaces or 3 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP interfaces

- Line-rate traffic throughput on all ports in Layer 2 and 3 mode

Kommt mit :

6x Strom Kabel

1x Console Kabel

switch# show version

Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) Software

Copyright (c) 2002-2014, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

The copyrights to certain works contained herein are owned by

other third parties and are used and distributed under license.

Some parts of this software are covered under the GNU Public

License. A copy of the license is available at

Software

  BIOS:      version 2.1.0

  loader:    version N/A

  kickstart: version 7.0(4)N1(1)

  system:    version 7.0(4)N1(1)

  Power Sequencer Firmware:

             Module 0: version v1.0

  Fabric Power Sequencer Firmware: Module 0: version v3.0

  Microcontroller Firmware:        version v1.2.2.0

  QSFP Microcontroller Firmware:

             Module not detected

  SFP Microcontroller Firmware:

             Module not detected

  BIOS compile time:       09/01/2014

  kickstart image file is: bootflash:///n6000-uk9-kickstart.7.0.4.N1.1. 

  kickstart compile time:  9/26/2014 0:00:00 [09/26/2014 10:35:31]

  system image file is:    bootflash:///n6000-uk9.7.0.4.N1.1. 

  system compile time:     9/26/2014 0:00:00 [09/26/2014 10:36:30]

Hardware

  cisco Nexus 5696 Chassis ("Nexus 5696 Supervisor")

  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU    1.80 with 16511900 kB of memory.

  Processor Board ID FOC1845271P

  Device name: switch

  bootflash:    7864320 kB

Kernel uptime is 0 day(s), 0 hour(s), 4 minute(s), 54 second(s)

Last reset

  Reason: Unknown

  System version: 7.0(4)N1(1)

  Service:

plugin

  Core Plugin, Ethernet Plugin

switch# sh license usage

Feature                      Ins  Lic   Status Expiry Date Comments

                                 Count

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FCOE_NPV_PKG                  No    -   Unused             -

FM_SERVER_PKG                 No    -   Unused             -

ENTERPRISE_PKG                Yes   -   Unused Never       -

FC_FEATURES_PKG               Yes   -   Unused Never       -

VMFEX_FEATURE_PKG             Yes   -   Unused Never       -

ENHANCED_LAYER2_PKG           No    -   Unused             -

LAN_BASE_SERVICES_PKG         No    -   Unused             -

LAN_ENTERPRISE_SERVICES_PKG   No    -   Unused             -

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