Cisco Nexus 5548P Datasheet
Latest additions to the cisco nexus 5000 series switches
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Cisco Nexus 5548P, 5548UP, 5596UP, and 5596T
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Latest Additions to the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches Product Overview
Today's data centers are increasingly filled with dense rack-mount and blade servers that host powerful multicore
processors. The rapid increase in in-rack computing density and the increasing use of virtualization software
combine to accelerate the demand for 10 Gigabit Ethernet and consolidated I/O: applications for which the Cisco
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Nexus
5000 Series Switches are an excellent match. With low latency and choice of front-to-back or back-to-front
cooling, copper or fiber access ports, and rear-facing data ports, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series is designed for a
broad range of physical, virtual, storage access, and high-performance computing environments, thus giving
customers the flexibility to meet and scale their data center requirements in a gradual manner and at a pace that
aligns with their business objectives.
The switch series, using cut-through architecture, supports line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet on all ports while
maintaining consistently low latency independent of packet size and services enabled. It supports a set of network
technologies known collectively as Data Center Bridging (DCB) that increases the reliability, efficiency, and
scalability of Ethernet networks. These features allow the switches to support multiple traffic classes over a
lossless Ethernet fabric, thus enabling consolidation of LAN, SAN, and cluster environments. Its ability to connect
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) to native Fibre Channel protects existing storage system investments while
dramatically simplifying in-rack cabling.
In addition to supporting standard 10 Gigabit Ethernet network interface cards (NICs) on servers, the Cisco Nexus
5000 Series integrates with multifunction adapters called converged network adapters (CNAs) that combine the
functions of Ethernet NICs and Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), making the transition to a single, unified
network fabric transparent and consistent with existing practices, management software, and OS drivers. The
switch series is compatible with integrated transceivers and Twinax cabling solutions that deliver cost-effective
connectivity for 10 Gigabit Ethernet to servers at the rack level, eliminating the need for expensive optical
transceivers. The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series portfolio also provides the flexibility to connect directly to servers using
10GBASE-T connections or fiber with Enhanced Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) transceivers.
The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series is designed for data center environments with cut-through technology that enables
consistent low-latency Ethernet solutions, with front-to-back or back-to-front cooling, and with data ports in the
rear, bringing switching into close proximity with servers and making cable runs short and simple. The switch
series is highly serviceable, with redundant, hot-pluggable power supplies and fan modules. It uses data center-
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class Cisco
NX-OS Software for high reliability and ease of management.
Cisco Nexus 5500 Platform Overview
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Summary of Contents for Cisco Nexus 5548P
- Page 1 5000 Series Switches are an excellent match. With low latency and choice of front-to-back or back-to-front cooling, copper or fiber access ports, and rear-facing data ports, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series is designed for a broad range of physical, virtual, storage access, and high-performance computing environments, thus giving customers the flexibility to meet and scale their data center requirements in a gradual manner and at a pace that aligns with their business objectives.
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Page 2: Cisco Nexus 5548P Switch
Cisco Nexus 5548P Switch The Cisco Nexus 5548P Switch (Figure 1) is the first of the Cisco Nexus 5500 platform switches. It is a one-rack- unit (1RU) 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE switch offering up to 960-Gbps throughput and up to 48 ports. The switch has 32 1/10-Gbps fixed SFP+ Ethernet and FCoE ports and one expansion slot. -
Page 3: Cisco Nexus 5596T Switch
Cisco Nexus 5596T Switch The Cisco Nexus 5596T Switch (Figure 4) is a 2RU form factor, with 32 fixed ports of 10G BASE-T and 16 fixed ports of SFP+. The switch also supports up to three expansion slots. The switch supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet (fiber and copper), Fibre Channel, and FCoE, offering up to 1920 Gbps of throughput and up to 96 ports. -
Page 4: Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders
Layer 3 Daughter Card and Expansion Module Options for Cisco Nexus 5548P, 5548UP, 5596UP, and 5596T Switches In addition to these expansion modules, the Cisco Nexus 5548P and 5548UP support a Layer 3 daughter ● card that can be ordered with the system or as a spare (field upgradable). This daughter card provides up to 160 Gbps of Layer 3 forwarding capability (240 million packets per second [mpps]) that can be shared by all 48 ports in the chassis. - Page 5 (fabric interfaces). Fabric Interfaces are differentiated with a yellow color for connectivity to the upstream parent Cisco Nexus switch. Table 1 lists the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders. Fabric extenders can be mixed and matched to a parent switch to provide connectivity options.
- Page 6 1GBASE-T to 10GBASE-T, and effective reuse of existing structured cabling. It comes with an uplink module that supports eight 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric interfaces. It is a superset of the Cisco Nexus 2232TM with the latest generation of 10GBASE-T PHY, enabling lower power and improved bit error rate (BER). The Cisco Nexus 2232TM-E supports DCB and LAN and SAN consolidation.
- Page 7 (NICs); the fabric extender can be physically located at the top of the rack and the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch can reside in the middle or at the end of the row, or the fabric extender and the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch can both reside at the end or middle of the row.
- Page 8 Efficient Transceiver and Cabling Options The Cisco Nexus 5500 platform supports a wide variety of 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity options using Cisco 10GBASE SFP+ modules. In addition, the Cisco Nexus 5500 platform supports 1 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity options using 1GBASE SFP modules, 8/4/2 -Gbps Fibre Channel SFP+ and 4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel SFP interfaces are supported with expansion module options.
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Page 9: Features And Benefits
IEEE 802.3ae Features and Benefits The comprehensive feature sets of the Cisco Nexus 5500 platform make it well suited for top-of-rack, middle-of- row, or end-of-row data center access-layer applications. The platform switches protect investments in data center racks with standards-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE features and virtual machine awareness features that allow IT departments to consolidate networks based on their own requirements and timing. - Page 10 Ethernet Pause mechanism, the Cisco Nexus 5500 platform provides additional features that create an even more easily managed, high- performance, unified network fabric. DCB features are summarized in Table 4 and supported by the Cisco Nexus 5500 platform.
- Page 11 Cisco Nexus 5500 platform and other standards-based products. The capability of the Cisco Nexus 5500 platform to function in all these capacities helps protect investment in the data center with a deployment model in which additional features can be enabled as they are needed.
- Page 12 32 servers can connect to each 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric extender. Assuming that these servers are dual-homed, a pair of Cisco Nexus 5500 platform switches can connect up to 1152 1 Gigabit Ethernet servers (24 Cisco Nexus 2248 fabric extenders) or up to 768 10 Gigabit Ethernet servers (24 Cisco Nexus 2232 fabric extenders).
- Page 13 10 Gigabit Ethernet Servers with a Single Pair of Access-Layer Switches and a Single Point of Management Unified Fabric with FCoE: I/O Consolidation The Cisco Nexus 5500 platform consolidates multiple networks - LAN, SAN, and server cluster - on a single unified fabric, saving the capital and operating expenses associated with deployment of multiple parallel networks, switching infrastructure, and cabling.
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Page 14: Product Architecture
Product Architecture The Cisco Nexus 5500 platform is built around two custom components: a unified crossbar fabric and a unified port controller application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). Each Cisco Nexus 5500 platform switch contains a single unified crossbar fabric ASIC and multiple unified port controllers to support fixed ports and expansion modules within the switch. - Page 15 Enhanced virtual PortChannel: The virtual PortChannel (vPC) feature allows one end of a PortChannel to ● be split across a pair of Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches. vPC provides Layer 2 multipathing through the elimination of Spanning Tree Protocol blocked ports in dual-homed connections. vPC enables fully used bisectional bandwidth and simplified Layer 2 logical topologies without the need to change the existing management and deployment models.
- Page 16 Cisco NX-OX Software Packaging for Cisco Nexus 5000 Series The software packaging for the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series offers flexibility and a comprehensive feature set while being consistent with Cisco Nexus access switches. The default system software has a comprehensive Layer 2 feature set with comprehensive security and management features.
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Page 17: Specifications
● Cisco Nexus 5596T: 32 fixed ports of 1 and 10G BASE-T and 16 SFP+ fixed ports configurable as 1 and 10 Gigabit Etherent and FCoE or 8/4/2/1-Gbps native Fibre Channel; additional interfaces through up to three expansion modules ●... - Page 18 ● Cisco EtherChannel technology (up to 16 ports per EtherChannel) ● Cisco vPC technology ● Enhanced vPC enable vPC between Cisco Nexus 5000 and 2000 Series as well as between Cisco Nexus 3000 Series and end host ● vPC configuration synchronization ●...
- Page 19 ● Embedded packet analyzer ● SNMPv1, v2, and v3 (IPv4 & IPv6) ● Enhanced SNMP MIB support ● XML (NETCONF) support © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 19 of 29...
- Page 20 ● Diffie-Hellman Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (DH-CHAP) and Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP) ● Distributed device alias services ● Host-to-switch and switch-to-switch FC-SP authentication © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 20 of 29...
- Page 21 ● CISCO-PSM-MIB ● CISCO-FC-SPAN-MIB ● CISCO-PORT-CHANNEL-MIB ● CISCO-RSCN-MIB ● CISCO-NS-MIB ● CISCO-FCS-MIB ● CISCO-DM-MIB ● FIBRE-CHANNEL-FE-MIB ● CISCO-FC-ROUTE-MIB ● CISCO-FSPF-MIB ● CISCO-ZS-MIB © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 21 of 29...
- Page 22 ● 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 © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 22 of 29...
- Page 23 ● Class of Service: Class 3, Class F ● Fibre Channel standard port types: E and F ● Fibre Channel enhanced port types: SD and TE © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 23 of 29...
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Page 24: Power Supply
Physical Specifications 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: ●... -
Page 25: Software Requirements
Component Weight Cisco Nexus 5548P or 5548UP with two 750W power supplies, 1 expansion module, and 2 fan modules 35 lb (15.88 kg) Cisco Nexus 5596UP or 5596T with two 1100W power supplies, 3 unified port expansion modules, and 4 fan 47.5 lb (21.55 kg) -
Page 26: Regulatory Standards Compliance
The product is RoHS 6 compliant with exceptions for leaded ball grid array (BGA) balls and lead press-fit connectors Ordering Information Table 11 presents ordering information for the Cisco Nexus 5500 platform. Note that the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders can be ordered either separately or along with the Cisco Nexus 5500 platform. - Page 27 10GBASE-SR SFP+ Module SFP-10G-LR(=) 10GBASE-LR SFP+ Module SFP-10G-ER(=) 10GBASE-ER-SFP+ Module SFP-H10GB-CU1M(=) 10GBASE-CU SFP+ Cable 1 Meter SFP-H10GB-CU3M(=) 10GBASE-CU SFP+ Cable 3 Meter © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 27 of 29...
- Page 28 Power Cord, 250VAC 10A CEI 23-16/VII Plug, Italy (2.5 meter) CAB-250V-10A-ID AC Power Cord - 250V, 10A, South Africa(2.5 meter) CAB-9K10A-SW Power Cord, 250VAC 10A MP232 Plug, SWITZ (2.5 meter) © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 28 of 29...
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Page 29: Warranty
10-day turnaround from receipt of a return materials authorization (RMA). Service and Support Cisco offers a wide range of services to help accelerate your success in deploying and optimizing the Cisco Nexus 5500 platform in your data center. The innovative Cisco Services are delivered through a unique combination of people, processes, tools, and partners and are focused on helping you increase operation efficiency and improve your data center network.