- THE CISCO NEXUS 7000 SERIES SWITCHES FEATURES:
- The system uses dual dedicated supervisor modules
- Midplane design supports flexible technology upgrades as your needs change and provides ongoing investment protection
- THE CISCO NEXUS 7000 SERIES SUPERVISOR MODULE FEATURES:
- Continuous system operation
- Active and standby supervisor
- Segmented and redundant out-of-band provisioning and management paths
- Virtualization of the management plane
- Integrated diagnostics and protocol decoding with an embedded control plane packet analyzer
- Fully decoupled control plane and data plane with no hardware forwarding on the module
- Distributed forwarding architecture, allowing independent upgrades of the supervisor and fabric
- Transparent upgrade capacity and capability; designed to support 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet
- Superior operational efficiency
- System locator and beacon LEDs for simplified operations
- Dedicated out-of-band management processor for 'lights out' management
- THE CISCO NEXUS 7000 FABRIC MODULES FEATURES:
- High availability and redundancy
- Nondisruptive addition and removal of fabric modules
- Arbitrated crossbar for unicast
- Multistage crossbar fabric
- Superframing and frame segmentation
Cisco Nexus 7010 Bundle includes Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches, Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor Module and Cisco Nexus 7000 Fabric Module.
The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches combine the highest levels of scalability with operational flexibility. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches comprise a modular data center-class product line designed for highly scalable 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks with a fabric architecture that scales beyond 15 terabits per second. Designed to meet the requirements of the most mission critical data centers, it delivers continuous system operation and virtualized, pervasive services. The Cisco Nexus 7000 series is based on a proven operating system, with enhanced features to deliver real-time system upgrades with exceptional manageability and serviceability. Its innovative design is purpose built to support end-to-end data center connectivity, consolidating IP, storage, and interprocess communication (IPC) networks onto a single Ethernet fabric. The first in the next generation of switch platforms, the Cisco Nexus 7000 series provides integrated resilience combined with features optimized specifically for the data center for availability, reliability, scalability, and ease of management.
The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor Module is designed to deliver scalable control plane and management functions for the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series chassis. It is based on a dual core processor that scales the control plane by harnessing the flexibility and power of the dual cores. The supervisors control the Layer 2 and 3 services, redundancy capabilities, configuration management, status monitoring, power and environmental management, and more. It provides centralized arbitration to the system fabric for all line cards. The fully distributed forwarding architecture allows the supervisor to support transparent upgrades to higher forwarding capacity-capable I/O and fabric modules. The supervisor incorporates an innovative dedicated connectivity management processor (CMP) to support remote management and troubleshooting of the complete system.
The Cisco Nexus 7000 Fabric Modules for the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Chassis are separate fabric modules that provide parallel fabric channels to each I/O and supervisor module slot. Up to five simultaneously active fabric modules work together delivering up to 230Gbps per slot. Through the parallel forwarding architecture, a system capacity of more than 8Tbps is achieved with the five fabric modules. The fabric module provides the central switching element for fully distributed forwarding on the I/O modules.