N5K-C5596T-FA Specifications
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Performance |
āĀ Ā Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 1920 Gbps or 1428 mpps; Layer 3 performance of up to 160 Gbps or 240Ā mpps
āĀ Ā MAC address table entries: 32,000
āĀ Ā Low-latency cut-through design that provides predictable, consistent traffic latency regardless of packet size, traffic pattern, or enabled features on 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
āĀ Ā Line-rate traffic throughput on all ports |
Interfaces |
āĀ Ā 32 fixed ports of 1 and 10G BASE-T and 16 SFP+ fixed ports configurable as 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE or 8/4/2/1-Gbps native Fibre Channel; additional interfaces through up to three expansion modules
āĀ Ā Expansion modules
āĀ Ā 16-port 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE module
āĀ Ā 8-port 8/4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel plus 8-port 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE module
āĀ Ā Unified port module consisting of 16 ports configurable as 8/4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel or 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE
āĀ Ā 4-port QSFP expansion module
āĀ Ā 12-port 10G BASE-T module (Cisco Nexus 5596T only)
āĀ Ā Layer 3 module (Cisco Nexus 5596UP and 5596T only; one per system)
āĀ Ā Layer 3 daughter card (Cisco Nexus 5548P and 5548UP only; one per system)
āĀ Ā Extension through the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series |
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Layer 2 Features |
āĀ Ā Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks
āĀ Ā IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation
āĀ Ā Support for up to 4096 VLANs
āĀ Ā Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+) (IEEE 802.1w compatible)
āĀ Ā Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) (IEEE 802.1s): 64 instances
āĀ Ā Spanning Tree PortFast
āĀ Ā Spanning Tree root guard
āĀ Ā Spanning Tree Bridge Assurance
āĀ Ā Cisco EtherChannel technology (up to 16 ports per EtherChannel)
āĀ Ā Cisco vPC technology
āĀ Ā Enhanced vPC enable vPC between Cisco Nexus 5000 and 2000 Series as well as between Cisco Nexus 3000 Series and end host
āĀ Ā vPC configuration synchronization
āĀ Ā Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): IEEE 802.3ad
āĀ Ā Advanced port channel hashing based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information
āĀ Ā Jumbo frames on all ports (up to 9216 bytes)
āĀ Ā Pause frames (IEEE 802.3x)
āĀ Ā Storm control (unicast, multicast, and broadcast)
āĀ Ā Private VLANs
āĀ Ā Private VLAN over trunks (isolated and promiscuous)
āĀ Ā Private VLANs over vPC and EtherChannels
āĀ Ā VLAN Remapping
āĀ Ā Cisco FabricPath
āĀ Ā EvPC and vPC+ with FabricPath
āĀ Ā Cisco Adapter FEX
āĀ Ā Cisco Data Center VM FEX
āĀ Ā Support for up to 24 fabric extenders on each Cisco Nexus 5500 platform |
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Layer 3 Features |
āĀ Ā Layer 3 interfaces: Routed ports on Cisco Nexus 5500 platform interfaces, switch virtual interface (SVI), port channels, subinterfaces, and port channel subinterfaces for a total of 4096 entries
āĀ Ā Support for up to 8000 prefixes and up to 16000 IPv4 and 8000 IPv6 host entries
āĀ Ā Support for up to 8000 multicast routes
āĀ Ā Support for up to 8000 IGMP groups
āĀ Ā Support for 1000 VRF entries
āĀ Ā Support for up to 4096 VLANs
āĀ Ā 16-way equal-cost multipathing (ECMP)
āĀ Ā 1664 ingress and 2048 egress access control list (ACL) entries
āĀ Ā Routing protocols: Static, Routing Information Protocol Version2 (RIPv2), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First Version 2 (OSPFv2), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
āĀ Ā IPv6 Routing Protocols: Static, Open Shortest Path First Version 3 (OPFv3), Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv6), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRPv6)
āĀ Ā IPv6 VRF Lite
āĀ Ā Hot-Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
āĀ Ā ACL: Routed ACL with Layer 3 and 4 options to match ingress and egress ACL
āĀ Ā Multicast: Protocol Independent Multicast Version 2 (PIMv2) sparse mode, Source Specific Multicast (SSM), Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), Internet Group Management Protocol Versions 2, and 3 (IGMP v2, and v3), and Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)
āĀ Ā Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF): VRF-lite (IP VPN); VRF-aware unicast; and BGP-, OSPF-, RIP-, and VRF-aware multicast
āĀ Ā Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRFP) with ACL; strict and loose modes
āĀ Ā Jumbo frame support (up to 9216 bytes)
āĀ Ā Support for up to 16 fabric extender on each Nexus 5500 with L3 modules
āĀ Ā RFC 896 |
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QoS |
āĀ Ā Layer 2 IEEE 802.1p (CoS)
āĀ Ā 8 hardware queues per port
āĀ Ā Per-port QoS configuration
āĀ Ā CoS trust
āĀ Ā Port-based CoS assignment
āĀ Ā Modular QoS CLI (MQC) compliance – IPv4 and IPv6
āĀ Ā ACL-based QoS classification (Layers 2, 3, and 4)
āĀ Ā MQC CoS marking
āĀ Ā Per-port virtual output queuing
āĀ Ā CoS-based egress queuing
āĀ Ā Egress strict-priority queuing
āĀ Ā Egress port-based scheduling: Weighted Round-Robin (WRR)
āĀ Ā Control Plan Policing (CoPP) – IPv4 and IPv6 |
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Security |
āĀ Ā Ingress ACLs (standard and extended) on Ethernet and virtual Ethernet ports
āĀ Ā Standard and extended Layer 2 ACLs: MAC addresses, protocol type, etc.
āĀ Ā Standard and extended Layer 3 to 4 ACLs: IPv4 and IPv6, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP and ICMPv6), TCP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), etc.
āĀ Ā VLAN-based ACLs (VACLs)
āĀ Ā Port-based ACLs (PACLs)
āĀ Ā Named ACLs
āĀ Ā Optimized ACL distribution
āĀ Ā ACLs on virtual terminals (VTYs)
āĀ Ā ACL logging on management interface
āĀ Ā Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) snooping with Option 82
āĀ Ā Dynamic Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Inspection
āĀ Ā IP source guard
āĀ Ā DHCP relay
āĀ Ā Cisco CTS (Authentication and Policy download from ACS)
āĀ Ā Ethernet Port Security
āĀ Ā IPv6 RACL
āĀ Ā IPv6 PACL
āĀ Ā IPv6 VACL |
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High-Availability Features |
āĀ Ā In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) for Layer 2
āĀ Ā Hot-swappable field-replaceable power supplies, fan modules, and expansion modules
āĀ Ā 1:1 power redundancy
āĀ Ā N:1 fan module redundancy |
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Management |
āĀ Ā Switch management using 10/100/1000-Mbps management or console ports
āĀ Ā CLI-based console to provide detailed out-of-band management
āĀ Ā In-band switch management
āĀ Ā Locator and beacon LEDs on Cisco Nexus 2000 Series
āĀ Ā Port-based locator and beacon LEDs
āĀ Ā Configuration synchronization
āĀ Ā Module preprovisioning
āĀ Ā Configuration rollback
āĀ Ā Secure Shell Version 2 (SSHv2)
āĀ Ā Telnet
āĀ Ā AAA
āĀ Ā AAA with RBAC
āĀ Ā RADIUS
āĀ Ā TACACS+
āĀ Ā Syslog (8 servers)
āĀ Ā Embedded packet analyzer
āĀ Ā SNMPv1, v2, and v3 (IPv4 & IPv6)
āĀ Ā Enhanced SNMP MIB support
āĀ Ā XML (NETCONF) support
āĀ Ā Remote monitoring (RMON)
āĀ Ā Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for management traffic
āĀ Ā Unified username and passwords across CLI and SNMP
āĀ Ā Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (MS-CHAP)
āĀ Ā Digital certificates for management between switch and RADIUS server
āĀ Ā Cisco Discovery Protocol Versions 1 and 2
āĀ Ā RBAC
āĀ Ā Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) on physical, port channel, VLAN, and Fibre Channel interfaces
āĀ Ā Encapsulated Remote SPAN (ERSPAN)
āĀ Ā Ingress and egress packet counters per interface
āĀ Ā Network Time Protocol (NTP)
āĀ Ā Cisco GOLD
āĀ Ā Comprehensive bootup diagnostic tests
āĀ Ā Call Home
āĀ Ā Smart Call Home
āĀ Ā Cisco Fabric Manager
āĀ Ā Cisco DCNM
āĀ Ā CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS) |
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Data Center Bridging |
āĀ Ā CEE- and IEEE-compliant PFC (per-priority Pause frame support)
āĀ Ā PFC link distance support: 3000m
āĀ Ā CEE-compliant DCBX Protocol
āĀ Ā CEE- and IEEE-compliant Enhanced Transmission Selection |
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Fibre Channel and FCoE Features (Requires Storage Services License) |
āĀ Ā T11Ā standards-compliant FCoE (FC-BB-5)
āĀ Ā T11 FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) (FC-BB-5)
āĀ Ā Any 10 Gigabit Ethernet port configurable as FCoE
āĀ Ā SAN administration separate from LAN administration
āĀ Ā FCP
āĀ Ā Fibre Channel forwarding (FCF)
āĀ Ā Fibre Channel standard port types: E, F, and NP
āĀ Ā Fibre Channel enhanced port types: VE, TE, and VF
āĀ Ā F-port trunking
āĀ Ā F-port channeling
āĀ Ā Direct attachment of FCoE and Fibre Channel targets
āĀ Ā Up to 240 buffer credits per native Fibre Channel port
āĀ Ā Up to 32 VSANs per switch
āĀ Ā Fibre Channel (SAN) port channel
āĀ Ā Native Interop Mode 1
āĀ Ā Native Interop Mode 2
āĀ Ā Native Interop Mode 3
āĀ Ā Native Interop Mode 4
āĀ Ā VSAN trunking
āĀ Ā Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI)
āĀ Ā Fibre Channel ID (FCID) persistence
āĀ Ā Distributed device alias services
āĀ Ā In-order delivery
āĀ Ā Port tracking
āĀ Ā Cisco N-Port Virtualization (NPV) technology
āĀ Ā N-port identifier virtualization (NPIV)
āĀ Ā Fabric services: Name server, registered state change notification (RSCN), login services, and name-server zoning
āĀ Ā Per-VSAN fabric services
āĀ Ā Cisco Fabric Services
āĀ Ā Diffie-Hellman Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (DH-CHAP) and Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP)
āĀ Ā Distributed device alias services
āĀ Ā Host-to-switch and switch-to-switch FC-SP authentication
āĀ Ā Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF)
āĀ Ā Fabric binding for Fibre Channel
āĀ Ā Standard zoning
āĀ Ā Port security
āĀ Ā Domain and port
āĀ Ā Enhanced zoning
āĀ Ā SAN port channels
āĀ Ā Cisco Fabric Analyzer
āĀ Ā Fibre Channel traceroute
āĀ Ā Fibre Channel ping
āĀ Ā Fibre Channel debugging
āĀ Ā Cisco Fabric Manager support
āĀ Ā Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)
āĀ Ā Boot from SAN over VPC/EVPC |
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Generic MIBs |
āĀ Ā SNMPv2-SMI
āĀ Ā CISCO-SMI
āĀ Ā SNMPv2-TM
āĀ Ā SNMPv2-TC
āĀ Ā IANA-ADDRESS-FAMILY-NUMBERS-MIB
āĀ Ā IANAifType-MIB
āĀ Ā IANAiprouteprotocol-MIB
āĀ Ā HCNUM-TC
āĀ Ā CISCO-TC
āĀ Ā SNMPv2-MIB
āĀ Ā SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB
āĀ Ā SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB
āĀ Ā SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB
āĀ Ā SNMP-TARGET-MIB
āĀ Ā SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB
āĀ Ā SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-SNMP-VACM-EXT-MIB |
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Layer 3 MIBs |
āĀ Ā UDP-MIB
āĀ Ā TCP-MIB
āĀ Ā OSPF-MIB
āĀ Ā BGP4-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-HSRP-MIB |
Fibre Channel MIBs |
āĀ Ā CISCO-ST-TC
āĀ Ā CISCO-FC-FE-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-FCSP-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-PORT-TRACK-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-PSM-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-FC-SPAN-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-PORT-CHANNEL-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-RSCN-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-NS-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-FCS-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-DM-MIB
āĀ Ā FIBRE-CHANNEL-FE-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-FC-ROUTE-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-FSPF-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-ZS-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-ZS-EXT-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-VSAN-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-CFS-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-FCPING-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-FCTRACEROUTE-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-FDMI-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-FC-DEVICE-ALIAS-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-WWNMGR-MIB
āĀ Ā FCMGMT-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-VEDM-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-FCOE-MIB |
Ethernet MIBs |
āĀ Ā CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-Virtual-Interface-MIB |
Configuration MIBs |
āĀ Ā ENTITY-MIB
āĀ Ā IF-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-ENTITY-EXT-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-FLASH-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-SYSTEM-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-SYSTEM-EXT-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-IP-IF-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-IF-EXTENSION-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-SERVER-INTERFACE-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-NTP-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-IMAGE-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-IMAGE-CHECK-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-IMAGE-UPGRADE-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-CONFIG-COPY-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-ENTITY-VENDORTYPE-OID-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB |
Monitoring MIBs |
āĀ Ā DIFFSERV-DSCP-TC
āĀ Ā NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB
āĀ Ā DIFFSERV-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-CALLHOME-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-SYSLOG-EXT-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-PROCESS-MIB
āĀ Ā RMON-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-RMON-CONFIG-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-HC-ALARM-MIB |
Security MIBs |
āĀ Ā CISCO-AAA-SERVER-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-AAA-SERVER-EXT-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-COMMON-ROLES-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-COMMON-MGMT-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-RADIUS-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-SECURE-SHELL-MIB
āĀ Ā TCP/IP MIBs
āĀ Ā INET-ADDRESS-MIB
āĀ Ā TCP-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-TCP-MIB
āĀ Ā UDP-MIB
āĀ Ā IP-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-IP-PROTOCOL-FILTER-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-DNS-CLIENT-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-PORTSECURITY- MIB |
Miscellaneous MIBs |
āĀ Ā START-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-LICENSE-MGR-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-FEATURE-CONTROL-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-CDP-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-RF-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-ETHERNET-FABRIC-EXTENDER-MIB
āĀ Ā CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB |
Industry Standards |
āĀ Ā IEEE 802.1D: Spanning Tree Protocol
āĀ Ā IEEE 802.1p: CoS prioritization
āĀ Ā IEEE 802.1Q: VLAN tagging
āĀ Ā IEEE 802.1Qaz: Enhanced transmission selection
āĀ Ā IEEE 802.1Qbb: Per-priority Pause
āĀ Ā IEEE 802.1s: Multiple VLAN instances of Spanning Tree Protocol
āĀ Ā IEEE 802.1w: Rapid reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol
āĀ Ā IEEE 802.3: Ethernet
āĀ Ā IEEE 802.3ad: LACP with fast timers
āĀ Ā IEEE 802.3ae: 10 Gigabit Ethernet
āĀ Ā SFF 8431 SFP+ CX1 support
āĀ Ā RMON
āĀ Ā IEEE 1588-2008: Precision Time Protocol (Boundary Clock) |
Fibre Channel Standards |
āĀ Ā FC-PH, Revision 4.3 (ANSI/INCITS 230-1994)
āĀ Ā FC-PH, Amendment 1 (ANSI/INCITS 230-1994/AM1 1996)
āĀ Ā FC-PH, Amendment 2 (ANSI/INCITS 230-1994/AM2-1999)
āĀ Ā FC-PH-2, Revision 7.4 (ANSI/INCITS 297-1997)
āĀ Ā FC-PH-3, Revision 9.4 (ANSI/INCITS 303-1998)
āĀ Ā FC-PI, Revision 13 (ANSI/INCITS 352-2002)
āĀ Ā FC-PI-2, Revision 10 (ANSI/INCITS 404-2006)
āĀ Ā FC-PI-4, Revision 7.0
āĀ Ā FC-FS, Revision 1.9 (ANSI/INCITS 373-2003)
āĀ Ā FC-FS-2, Revision 0.91
āĀ Ā FC-LS, Revision 1.2
āĀ Ā FC-SW-2, Revision 5.3 (ANSI/INCITS 355-2001)
āĀ Ā FC-SW-3, Revision 6.6 (ANSI/INCITS 384-2004)
āĀ Ā FC-GS-3, Revision 7.01 (ANSI/INCITS 348-2001)
āĀ Ā FC-GS-4, Revision 7.91 (ANSI/INCITS 387-2004)
āĀ Ā FC-BB-5, Revision 2.0 for FCoE
āĀ Ā FCP, Revision 12 (ANSI/INCITS 269-1996)
āĀ Ā FCP-2, Revision 8 (ANSI/INCITS 350-2003)
āĀ Ā FCP-3, Revision 4 (ANSI/INCITS 416-2006)
āĀ Ā FC-MI, Revision 1.92 (INCITS TR-30-2002, except for FL-ports and Class 2)
āĀ Ā FC-MI-2, Revision 2.6 (INCITS TR-39-2005, except for FL-ports and Class 2)
āĀ Ā FC-SP, Revision 1.6
āĀ Ā FC-DA, Revision 3.1 (INCITS TR-36-2004, except for FL-ports, SB-ports and Class 2)
āĀ Ā Class of Service: Class 3, Class F
āĀ Ā Fibre Channel standard port types: E and F
āĀ Ā Fibre Channel enhanced port types: SD and TE |
Physical Specifications
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SFP+ Optics |
Cisco Nexus 5500 platform supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ copper Twinax cables for short distances and SFP+ optics (10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR, 10GBASE-ER, GLC-ZX-SM and Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender Transceiver [FET-10G]) for longer distances. SFP+ has several advantages compared to other 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity options:
āĀ Ā Small 10 Gigabit Ethernet form factor
āĀ Ā Optical interoperability with XENPAK, X2, and XFP interface types
āĀ Ā Low power consumption
āĀ Ā Hot-swappable device
āĀ Ā Cisco Nexus 5500 platform products support 8-Gbps Fibre Channel-compatible SFP+ for native Fibre Channel connectivity options; 8-Gbps Fibre Channel-compatible short-reach and 10-km long-reach SFP transceiver modules operate at 8/4/2 Gbps and are supported in the 8āGbps-capable native Fibre Channel ports on expansion modules and unified ports |
Physical (height x width x depth) |
3.47 x 17.3 x 29.5 in. (8.8 x 43.9 x 74.9 cm) |
Operating temperature |
32 to 104Ā°F (0 to 40Ā°C) |
Nonoperating (storage) temperature |
-40 to 158Ā°F (-40 to 70Ā°C) |
Humidity |
5 to 95% (noncondensing) |
Altitude |
0 to 10,000 ft (0 to 3000m) |
Weight |
47.5 lb (21.55 kg) |
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