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Cisco Nexus platform positioning Arjan van der Valk ([email protected] ) DC Systems Engineer DC PVT 3 december 2014 Cisco Roadmap Disclaimer - Many of the products and features described herein remain in varying stages of development and will be offered on a when-and-if- available basis. This roadmap is subject to change at the sole discretion of Cisco, and Cisco will have no liability for delay in the delivery or failure to deliver any of the products or features set forth in this document.
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01 Nexus Platform Positioning PART 1
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Cisco Nexus platform positioning
Arjan van der Valk ([email protected])
DC Systems Engineer
DC PVT 3 december 2014
Cisco Roadmap Disclaimer - Many of the products and features described herein remain in varying stages of development and will be offered on a when-and-if-available basis. This roadmap is subject to change at the sole discretion of Cisco, and Cisco will have no liability for delay in the delivery or failure to deliver any of the products or features set forth in this document.
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Cisco Nexus 5000
Cisco Nexus 7000
Cisco Nexus 3000 Cisco
Nexus 2000
Cisco Nexus 5600
Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
Cisco Nexus 9000
APIC* ACI
NEW!
Cisco Nexus 3100
Cisco Nexus 6000
Cisco Nexus 1000V
Ecosystem*
DELIVERING TO YOUR DATA CENTER NEEDS Resilient, Scalable
Fabric Workload Mobility Within/Across DCs
LAN/SAN Convergence
Operational Efficiency
Architectural Flexibility
Cisco Nexus 7706
Cisco’s Nexus Switching Product Portfolio Leading with Innovation
Cisco Nexus 2300
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Today’s goal
§ Understand and being able to discuss different platform choices with customers
§ Understand feature differences between platforms § Understand and being able to discuss different fabric forwarding
choices § Roadmap knowledge
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Let’s start with the core (aka spine)
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Extending The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Building On Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Proven Technology
Cisco Nexus F3-Series Modules
Cisco Nexus 7700 Platform Switches
Cisco Nexus® 7000 Series
Industry’s Most Proven Data Center Switching Platform
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches
NEW
NEW
Common
Common
Common
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Nexus 7706 6-Slot Chassis Optimal Footprint For Small To Medium-Sized Data Centers
9 R
U
Maximum Density 192 x 10-Gbps Ports or 96 x 40-Gbps Ports or 48 x 100-Gbps Ports
Configuration Example 1 F3-Series with 40G Ports:
24 40-Gbps Ports + 2 F3-Series with 10G Ports:
96 10-Gbps Ports + Empty Slot for Future Growth
Front-to-Back Airflow
4 I/O Modules
2 Supervisors
4 3-kW Power Supplies
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Nexus 7700 F3 48-Port 1G/10G Module
§ 48-port 1G/10G SFP/SFP+ module
§ Wire-rate L2/L3 IPv4/IPv6 480G/slot 714Mpps/slot 6µsec latency cross-fabric
§ Buffering: 1.5MB VOQ/port and up to 12MB with user-configurable buffer sharing
§ 8 ports with 802.1AE LinkSec support *
* Not Available at FCS
Nexus 7700 F3 10G N77-F348XP-23
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§ Nexus 7700 24-port 40G QSFP+ module / Nexus 7000 12-port 40G QSFP+ module
§ Support for true 40G flows
§ Wire-rate L2/L3 IPv4/IPv6 960G / 480G per slot – 1.4 / 0.7 Bpps/slot ~6µsec latency cross-fabric
§ Buffering: 6MB VOQ per 40G port – Up to 12MB with user-configurable buffer sharing
Nexus 7700 and Nexus 7000 F3-Series 40G Modules
Nexus 7700 F3 40G N77-F324FQ-25
Nexus 7000 F3 40G N7K-F312FQ-25
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Cisco Nexus 7000/7700 status
§ 6.2(10) will be preferred release very soon on CCO § 6.2(12) is next maintenance release (expected Feb 2015) § No more maintenance releases planned in other trains than 6.2(x) § F3 48*10Gb LC for Nexus 7000 will be introduced in 6.2(12) § NX-OS 7.2 (Gibraltar) is now scheduled for C2CY2015
CCO says: NX-OS 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, and 6.1 have been announced End-of-Sale/End-of-Life (EoL). While NX-OS Release 5.2(9a) and Release 6.1(5a) are viable releases, they are announced EoS/EoL. Release 6.2(8b) may be a better option because of continued planned maintenance releases.
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Cisco Nexus 7000/7700 7.2 (Gibraltar)
§ No features are planned to be dropped from the original September commit, except from OnePK (including Puppet & Chef) and OpenFlow, this is current expectation
§ MPLS on F3 most asked functionality § VXLAN features for F3 linecards
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Unique features Nexus 7000/7700 (TODAY J) § Following list is not complete, but most frequently encountered
when compared with Nexus 9500 § Some features will be supported on Nexus 9000 in future releases § Hardware à 100Gb cards available § MPLS (L3/L2 VPN), FabricPath, VDC, ISSU, FCoE, OTV, DFA, LISP,
Netflow, PVLAN, ERSPAN, L2 security features, IP SLA § Control plane scalability differs (check scalability guides, example
#VRF, #HSRP groups, etc ) § FEX support is different (Nexus 9500 no FEX support yet)
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NEXUS 9504 NEXUS 9508 NEXUS 9516
Height 7 RU 13 RU 21 RU
Supervisor Slots 2 2 2
Fabric Module Slots 6 6 6
I/O Module Slots 4 8 16
Max BW per Slot (Tbps) 3.84 Tbps/slot 3.84 Tbps/slot 3.84 Tbps/slot
Max BW per System (Tbps) 15 Tbps 30 Tbps 60 Tbps
Max Switching Capacity per Slot 2.16 Bpps 2.16 Bpps 2.16 Bpps
Max Switching Capacity per System 8.64 Bpps 17.28 Bpps 34.56 Bpps
Max 1/10/40/ ports 192/256/144 384/1152/288 768/2304/576
Air Flow Front-to-Back Front-to-Back Front-to-Back
Power Supplies Up to 4 x 3KW AC PSUs Up to 8 x 3KW AC PSUs Up to 10 x 3KW AC PSUs
Fan Trays 3 3 3
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Modular: Nexus 9500 Line Card Types Line Cards Ports ASICs on Line Card OS Fabric
Modules Chassis Support
X9600
X9636PQ 36p QSFP+ 3 T2 NX-OS 6 N9504, N9508
X9500
X9564PX 48p 1/10G SFP+ and 4p QSFP+ 2 T2 & 2 ALE NX-OS, ACI 3 N9504, N9508, N9516
X9564TX 48p 1/10G-T and 4p QSFP+ 2 T2 & 2 ALE NX-OS, ACI 3 N9504, N9508, N9516
X9536PQ 36p QSFP+ (1.5:1) 2 T2 & 2 ALE NX-OS, ACI 3 N9504, N9508, N9516
X9700
X9736PQ 36p QSFP+ 2 ASE ACI 6 N9504, N9508, N9516
X9400
X9464PX 48p 1/10G SFP+ and 4p QSFP+ 1 T2 NX-OS 4 N9504, N9508, N9516
X9464TX 48p 1/10G-T and 4p QSFP+ 1 T2 NX-OS 4 N9504, N9508, N9516
X9432PQ 32p QSFP+ 2 T2 NX-OS 4 N9504, N9508, N9516
X9408PC 8p 100G CFP2 (CPAK via converter) 2 T2 NX-OS 4 N9504, N9508, N9516
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FEX Support Matrix with Nexus 9500
No FEX support on ALE Ports 10G BASE-T based line cards excluded
FEX Models N9K-X9564PX N9K-X9464PX N9K-X9432PQ N9K-X9636PQ N9K-X9536PQ N2K-C2248TP-E Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. û û û N2K-C2248TP-E Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. û û û N2K-C2224TP Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. û û û N2K-C2232PP Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. û û û N2K-C2232TM-E Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. û û û N2K-C22432TM Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. û û û N2K-C2248PQ Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. û û û N2K-C2348UPQ Q2CY15, Camden Rel. Q2CY15, Camden Rel. Q2CY15, Camden Rel. Q2CY15, Camden Rel. Q2CY15, Camden Rel. N2K-C2348TQ Q2CY15, Camden Rel. Q2CY15, Camden Rel. Q2CY15, Camden Rel. Q2CY15, Camden Rel. Q2CY15, Camden Rel. B22-HP Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. û û û B22-DELL Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. Q1CY15, Bronte Rel. û û û B22-IBM Q2CY15, Camden Rel. Q2CY15, Camden Rel. û û û B22-Fujitsu Q2CY15, Camden Rel. Q2CY15, Camden Rel. û û û
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Unique features Nexus 9500 (TODAY J) § Following list is not complete, but most frequently encountered when compared
with Nexus 7000
§ Some features will be supported on Nexus 7000 in future releases
§ Hardware à port-density on Nexus 9500 is highest, bandwidth/slot highest, all models F-2-B airflow, latency lower for LC
§ Software patching, VXLAN (routing, bridging, EVPN CP, delivered in upcoming release), Shell Access (Bash/Linux/BCOM), Puppet/Chef Containers with Hot Patching, NX-API
§ Control plane scalability differs (check scalability guides, example VRF, HSRP groups, etc )
§ No FEX support today (Nexus 9500 FEX support is roadmap)
§ Future ACI support (LC dependent for leaf and spine functionality)
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Let’s move to the access (aka leaf)
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• Nexus 5600 is the Next Generation of Nexus 5500 - 3rd Generation Product in the Nexus 5K family
• Nexus 5600 is optimized for 10G and 40G with support for all the functionality of the Nexus 5500
• Nexus 5600 hardware also has next generation features: VXLAN Bridging & Routing, NVGRE, Cisco’s DFA Innovations, Advanced Data Analytics for Network visibility & Programmability
• Nexus 5600 also provides better Performance & Scale - Integrated Line Rate Layer 3 - True 40G uplinks - Bigger buffers & Table sizes - 100G Ready
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Nexus 56128P 2RU - Upto 96 ports 10G Ethernet/FCoE, 8 ports 40G Ethernet/FCoE
Unified Port on Modules
Nexus 5672UP 1 RU - 48 port 10G Ethernet/FCoE (16 Ports Unified)
6 port 40G
NEXUS ADVANTAGE New Form Factors Chassis
New Form Factors and Higher Port Density
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Nexus 5696Q VXLAN ready
Density 96 Ports of 40G 384 Ports of 10G (breakout)
Extensible 8 expansion slots, Power Supply and FAN FRUABLE
Throughput Line Rate Layer 2 / Layer 3
Latency ~1 Usec Latency on Fiber Ports
Data Analytics SPAN on Latency and Drop Packets, Burst Monitoring, Network Latency Measurement
VXLAN Ready
10G 20p 10G SFP+ Unified Ports
10Gigabit Ethernet/FCOE and 8/4/2G FC VXLAN Ready
Power Supply
AC/DC 1100W PSU with Port Side Intake and Exhaust
40G 12p 40G QSFP+
40/10Gigabit Ethernet/FCoE VXLAN Ready
100G Future 4p 100G CXP
100/40/10Gigabit Ethernet/FCoE VXLAN Ready
