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Overview
The Cisco Nexus 5000 series N5K-C5672UP switches are a networking solution designed to meet the demands of modern data centers, providing a reliable and high-performance foundation for your business operations. To enhance the efficiency of storage and data traffic, the switch supports Data Center Bridging (DCB) capabilities. This ensures a reliable and lossless connection for mission-critical applications. This switch is equipped with a fixed architecture, making it a cost-effective solution for your networking needs. The standout feature of these switches is their Unified Port capability, denoted by the "UP" in the model name. This means each port can dynamically function as either an Ethernet or Fibre Channel, providing flexibility in adapting to changing network requirements. The Cisco Nexus 5000 series N5K-C5672UP switches are designed for ease of use, featuring a user-friendly interface that facilitates straightforward configuration and monitoring.
Specification
| Specification | |
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| Form factor | 1-rack unit |
| Number of ports | Up to 1152 with FEX |
| 10 GE | 48 ports |
| 40 GE | 6 true QSFP ports |
| Unified ports | 16 ports (Ethernet; FCoE; 2/4/8-gigabit FC) |
| 10 and 40 Gbps FCoE | Yes |
| Hardware VXLAN | Yes |
| NVGRE capable | Yes |
| Latency | 1 microsecond |
| Performance | Layer 2 and 3 hardware forwarding at 1.44 Tbps; 1071 mpps (64-byte packets) Support for up to 256,000 combined entries of MAC addresses and Address Resolution Protocol (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 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces 25-MB buffer per 12 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ interfaces Line-rate traffic throughput on all ports in Layer 2 and 3 mode |
| Interfaces | 48 fixed 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ ports with 16 of the 48 ports being unified, and 6 fixed 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ ports with 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet FCoE support on all respective ports and 2/4/8-Gbps Fibre Channel on all the unified ports Expansion module: 24 SFP+ unified ports plus 2 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ ports Conversion of 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports to 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces through QSFP+ breakout cable Fabric extension through the Cisco Nexus 2200 and 2300 platforms |
| Layer 2 Features | Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation Support for up to 4000 VLANs Support for up to 4000 access control list (ACL) entries Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+) (IEEE 802.1w compatible) Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) (IEEE 802.1s): 64 instances Spanning Tree PortFast Spanning Tree root guard Spanning Tree Bridge Assurance Cisco EtherChannel technology (up to 16 ports per EtherChannel) Cisco vPC technology vPC configuration synchronization vPC shutdown Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): IEEE 802.3ad Advanced port-channel hashing based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information Jumbo frames on all ports (up to 9216 bytes) Pause frames (IEEE 802.3x) Storm control (unicast, multicast, and broadcast) Private VLANs Private VLAN over trunks (isolated and promiscuous) Private VLANs over vPC and EtherChannels VLAN remapping Fabric Path EvPC and vPC+ with FabricPath Adapter FEX Data Center VM-FEX Support for up to 24 fabric extenders (Layer 2) with each Cisco Nexus 5672UP, 5672UP-16G, and 56128P Switch RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) using Data Center Bridging (DCB) support (DCB Exchange [DCBX] no drop and priority flow control [PFC]) |
| Layer 3 Features | Layer 3 interfaces: Routed ports, switch virtual interface (SVI), port channels, subinterfaces, and port-channel subinterfaces Support for up to 32,000 IPv4 and 8000 IPv6 host prefixes Support for up to 8000 multicast routes (IPv4) Support for up to 8000 IGMP snooping groups Support for 4000 Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) entries Support for up to 4096 VLANs Equal-Cost Multipathing (ECMP) up to 64 ways 4000 flexible ACL entries Routing protocols: Static, Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First Version 2 (OSPFv2), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) IPv6 routing protocols: Static, OPFv3, BGPv6, and EIGRPv6 IPv6 VRF-lite BFD support: OSPFv2, BGPv4, EIGRP, and VRF instances Policy-Based Routing (IPv4 and IPv6) Hot-Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) IP direct broadcast vPC+ routing protocol peering ACL: Routed ACL with Layer 3 and 4 options to match ingress and egress ACL Multicast: Protocol Independent Multicast Version 2 (PIMv2) sparse mode, Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), Bidir-PIM, Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), IGMPv2 and v3, and Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR) VRF: VRF-lite (IP VPN); VRF-aware unicast; and BGP-, OSPF-, RIP-, and VRF-aware multicast Unicast Reverse-Path Forwarding (uRFP) with ACL; strict and loose modes Jumbo frame support (up to 9216 bytes) Support for up to 24 fabric extenders on each Cisco Nexus 5600 10-Gbps platform switch |
| Quality of Service (QoS) | Layer 2 IEEE 802.1p (class of service [CoS]) 8 unicast queues and 8 multicast queues per port Per-port QoS configuration CoS trust Port-based CoS assignment Modular QoS CLI (MQC) compliance: IPv4 and IPv6 ACL-based QoS classification (Layers 2, 3, and 4) Flexible TCAM carving MAC and ARP hardware carving MQC CoS marking Per-port virtual output queuing CoS-based egress queuing Egress strict-priority queuing Egress port-based scheduling: Deficit Weighted Round-Robin (DWRR) Control-Plane Policing (CoPP): IPv4 and IPv6 |
| Security | Ingress ACLs (standard and extended) on Ethernet and virtual Ethernet ports Standard and extended Layer 2 ACLs: MAC addresses, protocol type, etc. Standard and extended Layer 3 and 4 ACLs: IPv4 and IPv6, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP and ICMPv6), TCP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), etc. Ingress policing VLAN-based ACLs (VACLs) Port-based ACLs (PACLs) Named ACLs Optimized ACL distribution ACLs on virtual terminals (vtys) ACL logging (IPv4 only) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) snooping with Option 82 Dynamic ARP Inspection IP source guard DHCP relay (up to 32 destinations) Ethernet port security IPv6 RACL, PACL, and VACL iSCSI type-length-value (TLV) |
| High-Availability Features | Cisco In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) for Layer 2 Hot-swappable field-replaceable power supplies and fan modules N+1 and N+N power redundancy N+1 fan module redundancy |
| Management | Switch management using 10/100/1000-Mbps management or console ports CLI-based console to provide detailed out-of-band management In-band switch management Port-based locator and beacon LEDs Configuration synchronization Configuration rollback Secure Shell Version 2 (SSHv2) Telnet Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) AAA with RBAC RADIUS TACACS+ Syslog (8 servers) Embedded packet analyzer SNMPv1, v2, and v3 (IPv4 and IPv6) Enhanced SNMP MIB support XML (NETCONF) support Remote monitoring (RMON) Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for management traffic Unified username and passwords across CLI and SNMP Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (MS-CHAP) Digital certificates for management between switch and RADIUS server Cisco Discovery Protocol Versions 1 and 2 RBAC SPAN on physical, PortChannel and VLAN ERSPAN Ingress and egress packet counters per interface Network Time Protocol (NTP) Cisco Generic Online Diagnostics (GOLD) Comprehensive bootup diagnostic tests Cisco Embedded Event Manager (EEM) Cisco Call Home Cisco Smart Call Home Default Interface Cisco Fabric Manager Cisco Prime DCNM CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS) |
| Data Center Bridging | CEE- and IEEE-compliant PFC (per-priority Pause frame support: IEEE 802.1Qbb) PFC link distance support: 20 km CEE-compliant DCBX Protocol CEE- and IEEE-compliant enhanced transmission selection |
| FCoE Features (Require Storage Services License) | T11 standards-compliant FCoE (Fibre Channel-BB-5) T11 FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) (Fibre Channel-BB-5) Any 10 or 40 Gigabit Ethernet port configurable as FCoE SAN administration separate from LAN administration Fibre Channel forwarding (FCF) Fibre Channel enhanced port types: VE, VF and VNP Direct attachment of FCoE targets Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI) Fibre Channel ID (FCID) persistence Distributed device alias services In-order delivery Port tracking Cisco FCoE NPV technology N-port identifier virtualization (NPIV) Fabric services: Name server, registered state change notification (RSCN), login services, and name-server zoning Per-VSAN fabric services Cisco Fabric Services Distributed device alias services Host-to-switch and switch-to-switch Fibre Channel-SP authentication Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) Standard zoning Enhanced zoning Cisco Fabric Analyzer Cisco DCNM-SAN Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) Boot from SAN over vPC and Enhanced vPC (EvPC) FCP VSAN trunking Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI) Fibre Channel ID (FCID) persistence Distributed device alias services In-order delivery Port tracking Cisco NPV technology Fabric binding for Fibre Channel Port security Fibre Channel traceroute Fibre Channel ping Fibre Channel debugging |
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SNMP MIBs |
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| Generic MIBs | SNMPv2-SMI CISCO-SMI SNMPv2-TM SNMPv2-TC IANA-ADDRESS-FAMILY-NUMBERS-MIB IANAifType-MIB IANAiprouteprotocol-MIB HCNUM-TC CISCO-TC SNMPv2-MIB SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB SNMP-TARGET-MIB SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB CISCO-SNMP-VACM-EXT-MIB |
| Layer 3 MIBs | UDP-MIB TCP-MIB OSPF-MIB BGP4-MIB CISCO-HSRP-MIB |
| Ethernet MIBs | CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB CISCO-Virtual-Interface-MIB CISCO-VTP-MIB |
| Configuration MIBs | ENTITY-MIB IF-MIB CISCO-ENTITY-EXT-MIB CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB CISCO-FLASH-MIB CISCO-SYSTEM-MIB CISCO-SYSTEM-EXT-MIB CISCO-IP-IF-MIB CISCO-IF-EXTENSION-MIB CISCO-SERVER-INTERFACE-MIB CISCO-NTP-MIB CISCO-IMAGE-MIB CISCO-IMAGE-CHECK-MIB CISCO-IMAGE-UPGRADE-MIB CISCO-CONFIG-COPY-MIB CISCO-ENTITY-VENDORTYPE-OID-MIB CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB |
| Monitoring MIBs | DIFFSERV-DSCP-TC NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB DIFFSERV-MIB CISCO-CALLHOME-MIB CISCO-SYSLOG-EXT-MIB CISCO-PROCESS-MIB RMON-MIB CISCO-RMON-CONFIG-MIB CISCO-HC-ALARM-MIB LLDP-MIB |
| Security MIBs | CISCO-AAA-SERVER-MIB CISCO-AAA-SERVER-EXT-MIB CISCO-COMMON-ROLES-MIB CISCO-COMMON-MGMT-MIB CISCO-RADIUS-MIB CISCO-SECURE-SHELL-MIB TCP/IP MIBs INET-ADDRESS-MIB TCP-MIB CISCO-TCP-MIB UDP-MIB IP-MIB CISCO-IP-PROTOCOL-FILTER-MIB CISCO-DNS-CLIENT-MIB CISCO-PORTSECURITY-MIB |
| Miscellaneous MIBs | START-MIB CISCO-LICENSE-MGR-MIB CISCO-FEATURE-CONTROL-MIB CISCO-CDP-MIB CISCO-RF-MIB CISCO-ETHERNET-FABRIC-EXTENDER-MIB CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB CISCO-FCOE-MIB CISCO-PORTCHANNEL-MIB CISCO-ZS-MIB |
| Standards | |
| Industry Standards | IEEE 802.1D: Spanning Tree Protocol IEEE 802.1p: CoS prioritization IEEE 802.1Q: VLAN tagging IEEE 802.1Qaz: Enhanced transmission selection IEEE 802.1Qbb: Per-priority Pause IEEE 802.1s: Multiple VLAN instances of Spanning Tree Protocol IEEE 802.1w: Rapid reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol IEEE 802.3: Ethernet IEEE 802.3ad: LACP with fast timers IEEE 802.3ae: 10 Gigabit Ethernet IEEE 802.3ba: 40 Gigabit Ethernet (Applies to 40G SR4, SR4-S, LR4, LR4-S, and CSR4 optics only) SFF 8431 SFP+ CX1 support RMON |
