N5K-C5596UP-FA, HKShanhai Group Limited Nexus 5500 Switch, 48x10GE/2 power/4 fans

N5K-C5596UP-FA Specifications

Performance

  Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 1920 Gbps or 1428 mpps; Layer 3 performance of up to 160 Gbps or 240 mpps

  MAC address table entries: 32,000

  Low-latency cut-through design that provides predictable, consistent traffic latency regardless of packet size, traffic pattern, or enabled features on 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces

  Line-rate traffic throughput on all ports

Interfaces

  48 fixed ports configurable as 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE or 8/4/2/1-Gbps native Fibre Channel; additional interfaces through up to three expansion modules

  Expansion modules

  16-port 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE module

  8-port 8/4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel plus 8-port 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE module

  Unified port module consisting of 16 ports configurable as 8/4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel or 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE

  4-port QSFP expansion module

  12-port 10G BASE-T module (HKShanhai Group Limited Nexus 5596T only)

  Layer 3 module (HKShanhai Group Limited Nexus 5596UP and 5596T only; one per system)

  Layer 3 daughter card (HKShanhai Group Limited Nexus 5548P and 5548UP only; one per system)

  Extension through the HKShanhai Group Limited Nexus 2000 Series

Layer 2 Features

  Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks

  IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation

  Support for up to 4096 VLANs

  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

  HKShanhai Group Limited EtherChannel technology (up to 16 ports per EtherChannel)

  HKShanhai Group Limited vPC technology

  Enhanced vPC enable vPC between HKShanhai Group Limited Nexus 5000 and 2000 Series as well as between HKShanhai Group Limited Nexus 3000 Series and end host

  vPC configuration synchronization

  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

  HKShanhai Group Limited FabricPath

  EvPC and vPC+ with FabricPath

  HKShanhai Group Limited Adapter FEX

  HKShanhai Group Limited Data Center VM FEX

  Support for up to 24 fabric extenders on each HKShanhai Group Limited Nexus 5500 platform

Layer 3 Features

  Layer 3 interfaces: Routed ports on HKShanhai Group Limited Nexus 5500 platform interfaces, switch virtual interface (SVI), port channels, subinterfaces, and port channel subinterfaces for a total of 4096 entries

  Support for up to 8000 prefixes and up to 16000 IPv4 and 8000 IPv6 host entries

  Support for up to 8000 multicast routes

  Support for up to 8000 IGMP groups

  Support for 1000 VRF entries

  Support for up to 4096 VLANs

  16-way equal-cost multipathing (ECMP)

  1664 ingress and 2048 egress access control list (ACL) entries

  Routing protocols: Static, Routing Information Protocol Version2 (RIPv2), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First Version 2 (OSPFv2), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

  IPv6 Routing Protocols: Static, Open Shortest Path First Version 3 (OPFv3), Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv6), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRPv6)

  IPv6 VRF Lite

  Hot-Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

  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), Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), Internet Group Management Protocol Versions 2, and 3 (IGMP v2, and v3), and Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)

  Virtual Route Forwarding (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 16 fabric extender on each Nexus 5500 with L3 modules

  RFC 896

QoS

  Layer 2 IEEE 802.1p (CoS)

  8 hardware 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)

  MQC CoS marking

  Per-port virtual output queuing

  CoS-based egress queuing

  Egress strict-priority queuing

  Egress port-based scheduling: Weighted Round-Robin (WRR)

  Control Plan 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 to 4 ACLs: IPv4 and IPv6, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP and ICMPv6), TCP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), etc.

  VLAN-based ACLs (VACLs)

  Port-based ACLs (PACLs)

  Named ACLs

  Optimized ACL distribution

  ACLs on virtual terminals (VTYs)

  ACL logging on management interface

  Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) snooping with Option 82

  Dynamic Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Inspection

  IP source guard

  DHCP relay

  HKShanhai Group Limited CTS (Authentication and Policy download from ACS)

  Ethernet Port Security

  IPv6 RACL

  IPv6 PACL

  IPv6 VACL

High-Availability Features

  In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) for Layer 2

  Hot-swappable field-replaceable power supplies, fan modules, and expansion modules

  1:1 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

  Locator and beacon LEDs on HKShanhai Group Limited Nexus 2000 Series

  Port-based locator and beacon LEDs

  Configuration synchronization

  Module preprovisioning

  Configuration rollback

  Secure Shell Version 2 (SSHv2)

  Telnet

  AAA

  AAA with RBAC

  RADIUS

  TACACS+

  Syslog (8 servers)

  Embedded packet analyzer

  SNMPv1, v2, and v3 (IPv4 & 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

  HKShanhai Group Limited Discovery Protocol Versions 1 and 2

  RBAC

  Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) on physical, port channel, VLAN, and Fibre Channel interfaces

  Encapsulated Remote SPAN (ERSPAN)

  Ingress and egress packet counters per interface

  Network Time Protocol (NTP)

  HKShanhai Group Limited GOLD

  Comprehensive bootup diagnostic tests

  Call Home

  Smart Call Home

  HKShanhai Group Limited Fabric Manager

  HKShanhai Group Limited DCNM

  HKShanhai Group LimitedWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS)

Data Center Bridging

  CEE- and IEEE-compliant PFC (per-priority Pause frame support)

  PFC link distance support: 3000m

  CEE-compliant DCBX Protocol

  CEE- and IEEE-compliant Enhanced Transmission Selection

Fibre Channel and FCoE Features (Requires Storage Services License)

  T11 standards-compliant FCoE (FC-BB-5)

  T11 FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) (FC-BB-5)

  Any 10 Gigabit Ethernet port configurable as FCoE

  SAN administration separate from LAN administration

  FCP

  Fibre Channel forwarding (FCF)

  Fibre Channel standard port types: E, F, and NP

  Fibre Channel enhanced port types: VE, TE, and VF

  F-port trunking

  F-port channeling

  Direct attachment of FCoE and Fibre Channel targets

  Up to 240 buffer credits per native Fibre Channel port

  Up to 32 VSANs per switch

  Fibre Channel (SAN) port channel

  Native Interop Mode 1

  Native Interop Mode 2

  Native Interop Mode 3

  Native Interop Mode 4

  VSAN trunking

  Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI)

  Fibre Channel ID (FCID) persistence

  Distributed device alias services

  In-order delivery

  Port tracking

  HKShanhai Group Limited N-Port Virtualization (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

  HKShanhai Group Limited Fabric Services

  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

  Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF)

  Fabric binding for Fibre Channel

  Standard zoning

  Port security

  Domain and port

  Enhanced zoning

  SAN port channels

  HKShanhai Group Limited Fabric Analyzer

  Fibre Channel traceroute

  Fibre Channel ping

  Fibre Channel debugging

  HKShanhai Group Limited Fabric Manager support

  Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)

  Boot from SAN over VPC/EVPC

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

Fibre Channel MIBs

  CISCO-ST-TC

  CISCO-FC-FE-MIB

  CISCO-FCSP-MIB

  CISCO-PORT-TRACK-MIB

  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

  CISCO-ZS-EXT-MIB

  CISCO-VSAN-MIB

  CISCO-CFS-MIB

  CISCO-FCPING-MIB

  CISCO-FCTRACEROUTE-MIB

  CISCO-FDMI-MIB

  CISCO-FC-DEVICE-ALIAS-MIB

  CISCO-WWNMGR-MIB

  FCMGMT-MIB

  CISCO-VEDM-MIB

  CISCO-FCOE-MIB

Ethernet MIBs

  CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB

  CISCO-Virtual-Interface-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

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

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

  SFF 8431 SFP+ CX1 support

  RMON

  IEEE 1588-2008: Precision Time Protocol (Boundary Clock)

Fibre Channel Standards

  FC-PH, Revision 4.3 (ANSI/INCITS 230-1994)

  FC-PH, Amendment 1 (ANSI/INCITS 230-1994/AM1 1996)

  FC-PH, Amendment 2 (ANSI/INCITS 230-1994/AM2-1999)

  FC-PH-2, Revision 7.4 (ANSI/INCITS 297-1997)

  FC-PH-3, Revision 9.4 (ANSI/INCITS 303-1998)

  FC-PI, Revision 13 (ANSI/INCITS 352-2002)

  FC-PI-2, Revision 10 (ANSI/INCITS 404-2006)

  FC-PI-4, Revision 7.0

  FC-FS, Revision 1.9 (ANSI/INCITS 373-2003)

  FC-FS-2, Revision 0.91

  FC-LS, Revision 1.2

  FC-SW-2, Revision 5.3 (ANSI/INCITS 355-2001)

  FC-SW-3, Revision 6.6 (ANSI/INCITS 384-2004)

  FC-GS-3, Revision 7.01 (ANSI/INCITS 348-2001)

  FC-GS-4, Revision 7.91 (ANSI/INCITS 387-2004)

  FC-BB-5, Revision 2.0 for FCoE

  FCP, Revision 12 (ANSI/INCITS 269-1996)

  FCP-2, Revision 8 (ANSI/INCITS 350-2003)

  FCP-3, Revision 4 (ANSI/INCITS 416-2006)

  FC-MI, Revision 1.92 (INCITS TR-30-2002, except for FL-ports and Class 2)

  FC-MI-2, Revision 2.6 (INCITS TR-39-2005, except for FL-ports and Class 2)

  FC-SP, Revision 1.6

  FC-DA, Revision 3.1 (INCITS TR-36-2004, except for FL-ports, SB-ports and Class 2)

  Class of Service: Class 3, Class F

  Fibre Channel standard port types: E and F

  Fibre Channel enhanced port types: SD and TE

Physical Specifications

SFP+ Optics

HKShanhai Group Limited 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 HKShanhai Group Limited Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender Transceiver [FET-10G]) for longer distances. SFP+ has several advantages compared to other 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity options:

  Small 10 Gigabit Ethernet form factor

  Optical interoperability with XENPAK, X2, and XFP interface types

  Low power consumption

  Hot-swappable device

  HKShanhai Group Limited Nexus 5500 platform products support 8-Gbps Fibre Channel-compatible SFP+ for native Fibre Channel connectivity options; 8-Gbps Fibre Channel-compatible short-reach and 10-km long-reach SFP transceiver modules operate at 8/4/2 Gbps and are supported in the 8‑Gbps-capable native Fibre Channel ports on expansion modules and unified ports

Physical (height x width x depth)

3.47 x 17.3 x 29.5 in. (8.8 x 43.9 x 74.9 cm)

Operating temperature

32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C)

Nonoperating (storage) temperature

-40 to 158°F (-40 to 70°C)

Humidity

5 to 95% (noncondensing)

Altitude

0 to 10,000 ft (0 to 3000m)

Weight

47.5 lb (21.55 kg)