Nexus 7000 M2-Series 6-Port 40 Gigabit Ethernet Module

Nexus 7000 M2-Series 6-Port 40 Gigabit Ethernet Module

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• N7K-M224XP-23L

The Cisco Nexus 7000 M2 6-Port Module with XL Option is a highly scalable, high-performance module offering outstanding flexibility and full-featured, non-blocking 40 Gigabit Ethernet performance on each port. The Cisco Nexus 7000 M2-Series module (Figure 1) facilitates the deployment of high-density, high-bandwidth, scalable network architecture, especially in large network cores and in service provider and Internet peering environments.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches provide the foundation of the Cisco® Unified Fabric. They are a modular data center-class product line designed for highly scalable 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks. The fabric architecture scales beyond 15 terabits per second (Tbps), and is designed to support high-density 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet deployments. To meet the requirements of the most mission-critical network environments, the switches deliver continuous system operations and virtualized services. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is powered by the proven Cisco NX-OS Software operating system, with enhanced features to deliver real-time system upgrades with exceptional manageability and serviceability. The software’s innovative unified fabric design is purpose-built to support consolidation of IP and storage networks on a single lossless Ethernet fabric.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 M2-Series module offers outstanding flexibility and full-featured, non-blocking performance on each port. The module enables the deployment of high-density, high-speed, scalable data center architecture. Up to 384 non-blocking 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports are supported in a single Cisco Nexus 7000 18-Slot Switch chassis. Populating the Cisco Nexus 7000 10-Slot and 9-Slot Switch chassis with this module delivers, respectively, up to 192 and 168 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet in a single chassis (Table 1).

The Cisco Nexus 7000 M2-Series module has a number of essential features that provide flexible deployment and support for environments requiring the highest performance and comprehensive features. With an optional Scalable Feature License, the module can operate in the enhanced XL mode, which enables use of the full forwarding table, essential for large-scale deployments such as Internet peering environments. This larger forwarding table can support multiple copies of the full Internet route table for use in Internet-facing deployments with Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) and Virtual Device Context (VDC) support. The capability to operate in either non-XL or XL mode makes this module extremely versatile and flexible for many types of networking environments, without requiring a hardware module change or upgrade, and delivers a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

The Cisco Nexus 7000 M2-Series module contains two integrated forwarding engines capable of delivering up to 120 million packets per second (Mpps) of Layer 2 and Layer 3 IPv4 unicast forwarding or 60 Mpps of IPv6 unicast forwarding across all ports of a single I/O module. The distributed architecture, with the forwarding engine integrated into each module, scales the forwarding performance of the chassis linearly by the number of I/O modules employed. The 18-slot chassis with 16 Cisco Nexus 7000 M2-Series modules can deliver up to 1.92 billion packets per second (Bpps) of IPv4 unicast forwarding or 960 Mpps of IPv6 unicast forwarding. Multicast forwarding is built into the I/O module, performing egress replication. The integrated forwarding engines also deliver ACL filtering, marking, rate limiting, and NetFlow with no degradation of performance. Powerful ACL processing supports up to 128K entries per module, where entries can address Layer 2, 3, and 4 fields in addition to the Cisco metadata fields that employ Security Group Tags (SGTs).

The Cisco Nexus 7000 M2-Series module offers exceptional security with integrated hardware support for Cisco TrustSec® technology, including line-rate data confidentiality, data integrity, and ACL processing for SGTs. Data confidentiality and integrity conform to the IEEE MAC security standard (IEEE 802.1AE [MACsec]). All ports on the module support the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher, using a 128-bit key. New security ACLs are enhanced through hardware support for Cisco metadata headers capable of carrying SGTs. Security group ACLs (SGACLs) use SGT information to provide hardware-based enforcement of security policies, removing dependencies on IP addresses, and thus improving scalability and simplifying manageability.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 M2-Series module buffers data in Virtual Output Queues (VOQ) before the data flows to the fabric. The data flow is controlled by a central arbiter on the supervisor module, using a credit-based buffer design. This architecture offers a lossless fabric that delivers quality of service (QoS) and fairness across all ports, even during congestion.

The comprehensive feature set of the Cisco Nexus 7000 M2-Series module includes classis Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding, with the robust feature set offered by Cisco NX-OS Software: a modular multitasking and multithreaded operating system built with high availability, granular fault management, resiliency, and nondisruptive serviceability at its foundation. This extremely comprehensive set of Layer 2 and Layer 3 functions makes this module ideal for data center networks, where density, performance, and continuous system operation are critical.

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Specifications
Product compatibility	• Supported in all Cisco Nexus 7000 Series chassis • Supported Fabric-1 or Fabric-2 fabric modules • Supported SUP1, SUP2 or SUP2E Supervisor modules
Software compatibility	Cisco NX-OS Software Release 6.1 or later (minimum requirement)
Memory	2 GB DRAM
Front-panel LEDs	• Status: Green (operational), red (faulty), or orange (module booting) • Link: Green (port enabled and connected), orange (port disabled), blinking orange (faulty port), off (port enabled and not connected), or blinking green and orange in conjunction with ID LED blue (port flagged for identification; beacon) • ID: Blue (operator has flagged this card for identification; beacon) or off (module not flagged)
Programming interfaces	• Extensible Markup Language (XML) • Scriptable command-line interface (CLI) • Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) GUI
Connectivity	6 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus [QSFP+] optics modules)
Maximum port density	• 96 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet for 18-slot chassis • 48 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet for 10-slot chassis • 42 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet for 9-slot chassis • 12 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet for 4-slot chassis
MAC security	• Ingress: 8 queues and 2 thresholds (RX: 8q2t) • Egress: 1 strict priority queue, 7 deficit-weighted round-robin (DWRR) queues, and 4 thresholds (TX: 1p7q4t)
Scheduler	DWRR and shaped round-robin (SRR)
Port buffers	• Ingress: 20.8 MB per port • Egress: 20.8 MB per port
Jumbo frame support for bridged and routed packets	Up to 9216 bytes
Performance	120 Mpps Layer 2 and Layer 3 IPv4 unicast and 60 Mpps IPv6 unicast
MAC address entries	128K
VLANs	16,384 bridge domains and 4096 simultaneous VLANs per VDC
IPv4 entries	• 128K (non-XL mode) • 1M (XL mode)
IPv6 entries	• 64K (non-XL mode) • 350K (XL mode)
ACLs	• 64K (non-XL mode) • 128K (XL mode)
Policers	16,000
Switch fabric interface	550 Gbps in each direction (1.1 Tbps full duplex) distributed across up to five Fabric-2 modules 230 Gbps in each direction (460 Gbps full duplex) distributed across up to five Fabric-1 modules
OIR	Online insertion and removal
Physical dimensions	• Occupies one I/O module slot in a Cisco Nexus 7000 Series chassis • Dimensions (H x W x D): 1.733 x 15.3 x 21.9 in, (4.4 x 38.9 x 55.6 cm) • Weight: 16.5 lb (7.5 kg)
Power consumption	• Typical: 720 watts (W) • Maximum: 795W
Environmental conditions	• Operating temperature: 32 to 104ºF (0 to 40ºC) • Operational relative humidity: 5 to 90%, noncondensing • Storage temperature: -40 to 158ºF (-40 to 70ºC) • Storage relative humidity: 5 to 95%, noncondensing
Regulatory compliance	EMC – Emissions • 47CFR Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A • AS/NZS CISPR22 Class A • CISPR22 Class A • EN55022 Class A • ICES003 Class A • VCCI Class A • EN61000-3-2 • EN61000-3-3 • KN22 Class A • CNS13438 Class A EMC – Immunity • EN55024 • CISPR24 • EN300386 • KN24
Environmental standards	• NEBS criteria levels • SR-3580 NEBS Level 3 (GR-63-CORE, issue 3, and GR-1089-CORE, issue 4) • Telecommunications Carrier Group (TCG) Checklist • ATT TP76200 level 3 • ETSI 300 019-1-1, Class 1.2 Storage • ETSI 300 019-1-2, Class 2.3 Transportation • ETSI 300 019-1-3, Class 3.2 Stationary Use
Safety	• UL 60950-1 Second Edition • CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1 Second Edition • EN 60950-1 Second Edition • IEC 60950-1 Second Edition • AS/NZS 60950-1

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