N5K-C5672UP-Ref Overview

Cisco Nexus 5672UP switch (N5K-C5672UP) is a compact 1RU (1 Rack Unit), high-performance, low-latency 1/10/40-Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switch. It runs the industry-leading Cisco NX-OS Software operating system, providing features and capabilities that are widely deployed.

Quick spec of N5K-C5672UP-Ref

• Product Code: N5K-C5672UP
• Performance: Layer 2 and 3 hardware forwarding at 1.44 Tbps; 1071 mpps (64-byte packets)
• Form factor: 1-rack unit
• Power Supplies: two 1+1 redundant, hot-swappable power supplies
• Fan Modules: 3
• Airflow: supporting both port-side intake (red handle) and fan-side intake (blue handle) airflow options for flexible mounting
• 10 GE: 48 ports
• 40 GE: 6 true QSFP ports
• Ports: 48 fixed 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports of which 16 ports can be unified ports (UP)
• 10 and 40 Gbps FCoE: Yes
• Hardware VXLAN: Yes
• NVGRE capable: Yes
• Latency: 1 microsecond
• Physical (height x width x depth): 1.75 x 17.3 x 30 in. (4.4 x 43.9 x 76.2 cm)
• Weight: 32 lb (2 power supplies)

N5K-C5672UP-Ref 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: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
  • 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), offerir-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
• Generic MIBs:
  • SNMPv2-SMI
  • CISCO-SMI
  • SNMPv2-TM
  • SNMPv2-TC
  • 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
  • Layer 3 MIBs:
    • UDP-MIB
    • TCP-MIB
    • OSPF-MIB
    • BGP4-MIB
    • CISCO-HSRP-MIB
  • Ethernet MIBs:
    • CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB
    • CISCO-VTP-MIB
  • Configuration MIBs:
    • ENTITY-MIB
    • IF-MIB
    • CISCO-ENTITY-EXT-MIB
    • CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB
    • CISCO-FLASH-MIB
    • CISCO-SYSTEM-MIB
    • CISCO-SYSTEM-EXT-MIB
    • CISCO-IP-IF-MIB
    • CISCO-IF-EXTENSION-MIB
    • CISCO-NTP-MIB
    • CISCO-IMAGE-MIB
    • CISCO-IMAGE-CHECK-MIB
    • CISCO-IMAGE-UPGRADE-MIB
    • CISCO-CONFIG-COPY-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-DNS-CLIENT-MIB
      • Miscellaneous MIBs:
        • START-MIB
        • CISCO-LICENSE-MGR-MIB
        • CISCO-FEATURE-CONTROL-MIB
        • CISCO-CDP-MIB
        • CISCO-RF-MIB
        • CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB
        • CISCO-FCOE-MIB
        • CISCO-PORTCHANNEL-MIB
        • CISCO-ZS-MIB
      • 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