CISCO Nexus 5000 Series

Data Center Transformation with Cisco Nexus 5000 Series

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series is designed to meet the challenges of the next-generation data centers including dense multisocket, multicore, virtual machine optimized services, where infrastructure sprawl and increasingly demanding workloads are commonplace.

• Total cost of ownership (TCO) reduction through data center infrastructure simplification
• Data center consolidation with investment protection for existing server, network, storage, and facilities assets
• Increased business agility through virtual machine optimized services
• Enhanced business resilience through higher levels of operational continuity
• Ease of deployment and alignment with existing operational models and best practices in the data center
  

Total Cost Reduction with Unified Fabric

The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series provides a unified fabric over 10 Gigabit Ethernet for LAN, SAN, and cluster traffic. This unification enables consolidation and higher utilization of previously separate infrastructure and cabling, reducing by up to 50 percent the number of adapters and cables required and eliminating redundant switches. This infrastructure displacement also lowers power and cooling costs significantly, especially for rack-optimized
servers similar to blade servers.
The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series simplifies cable management, allowing hosts to connect to any network through a unified Ethernet interface and enabling faster rollout of new applications and services.

Innovations in Cisco Nexus 5000 Series

High-performance, low-latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet, delivered by a cut-through switching architecture, for 10 Gigabit Ethernet server access in next-generation data centers

Protect Investment and Operational Best Practices

The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series lets customers take advantage of the cost and functional benefits of a unified fabric while protecting their investments in existing network, storage, and server assets. The platform supports end-to-end role-based security with Cisco TrustSec implemented in the hardware.

The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series can be easily inserted into an existing data center network to provide immediate benefits without causing disruption or rework of existing design and operational best practices.

Cisco Data Center Ethernet

Cisco Data Center Ethernet provides a suite of standards-based extensions to existing Ethernet, making Ethernet lossless, which is critical in a converged environment where it must flawlessly carry storage traffic. This lossless characteristic is required to successfully deploy FCoE, but it is also of value for other types of data center traffic such as iSCSI, video, multicast, and other critical traffic flows. Additionally, Cisco Data Center Ethernet simplifies the Layer 2 topology in the data center, improving the stability and manageability of the data center network.

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

FCoE is an open standards-based protocol designed to transport Fibre Channel protocols over Ethernet. It involves straightforward encapsulation of Fibre Channel into Ethernet. FCoE eliminates the need for separate switches, cabling, adapters, and transceivers
for each class of traffic,dramatically reducing power consumption and helping reduce both capital and operational expenses for businesses.

Virtual Machine Optimized Services

Virtualization is the cornerstone of the Cisco Data Center 3.0 architecture because it increases the utilization of the resources in the data center. Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches are designed to support virtualization and virtual machine mobility by mapping virtual machines to network profiles, allowing network services to be allocated at per-virtual machine granularity centrally from the unified fabric. This cohesive capability
to move virtual machines and network profiles together eases manageability and increases isolation. Further, consistent network and security policies can be enabled centrally over the unified fabric.

Part of the Cisco Nexus Family of Data Center-Class Switches

• Operational Manageability
  
  • Simpler, more resilient Layer 2 network
  • Preservation of management best practices
    
• Transport Flexibility
  
  • FCoE-based unified fabric
  • Virtual machine optimized services
  • Lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Cisco Data Center Ethernet
    
• Infrastructure Scalability
  
  • Reduced power and cooling demands
  • Nonblocking capacity of more than 1 terabit per second (Tbps)

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Platform
Cisco Nexus 5020 Switch

• Two rack-unit (2RU), 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE switch with 1.04 Tbps throughput
• Up to 56 ports: 40 fixed 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports with Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus (SFP+) connectors and two expansion slots
  

Expansion Modules

• An Ethernet module with six SFP+ ports per module that support 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Cisco Data Center Ethernet, and FCoE

• A Fibre Channel module with 8 ports of 1/2/4 Gbps native FC through SFP+ ports

• A Fibre Channel plus Ethernet module with four ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Cisco Data Center Ethernet and FCoE via SFP+ interface and four ports of 1/2/4 Gbps native Fibre Channel connectivity via SFP interface

Data Center-Class Operating System

The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series is based on the Cisco NX-OS Software, which provides superior availability, operational efficiency, and security in enterprise data center environments.

Management

The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series supports the standard Cisco command-line interface (CLI), role-based access control, Cisco Fabric Manager, and standard interfaces for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and XML.

For More Information:
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series: http://www.cisco.com/go/nexus5000.
Cisco Data Center Ethernet: http://www.cisco.com/go/dce.
Cisco NX-OS: http://www.cisco.com/go/nxos.

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