N5K-C5672UP-16G

N5K-C5672UP-16G Specification

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

24 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 24 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

●  FabricPath

●  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

SNMP MIBs

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