Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Hardware
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Hardware
Chassis
The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series includes the Cisco Nexus 5010 and Cisco Nexus 5020 switches.
The Cisco Nexus 5010 switch is a 1 RU chassis and the Cisco Nexus 5020 switch is a 2 RU chassis designed
for rack mounting. The chassis supports redundant fans and power supplies.
The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switching fabric is low latency, nonblocking, and supports Ethernet frame sizes
from 64 to 9216 bytes.
Refer to the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Hardware Installation Guide for hardware configuration details.
Expansion Modules
The Cisco Nexus 5010 switch has one slot and the Cisco Nexus 5020 switch has two slots for optional expansion
modules. The following expansion modules are available:
• N5K-M1404 provides four 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports and four 1/2/4-Gigabit Fibre Channel ports.
• N5K-M1600 provides six 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports.
• N5K-M1008 provides eight 1/2/4-Gigabit Fibre Channel ports.
The expansion modules are field-replaceable units (FRUs) that support online insertion and removal (OIR).
Refer to the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Hardware Installation Guide for details about the optional expansion
modules.
Fabric Extender
The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch supports the optional Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender. The
Fabric Extender is a fixed configuration chassis designed to deliver additional connectivity and is configured
from the parent switch as a remote module
The Cisco Nexus 2148T Fabric Extender provides 48 1-Gigabit Ethernet host interfaces and is connected to
its parent switch using four 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports.
Refer to the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender Software Configuration Guide for an overview of the
Fabric Extender and configuration details.
Ethernet Interfaces
The Cisco Nexus 5010 switch has 20 fixed 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports equipped with SFP+ interface adapters.
The first 8 ports are switchable 1-Gigabit and 10-Gigabit ports. Up to 6 additional 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports
are available on an expansion module.
The Cisco Nexus 5020 switch has 40 fixed 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports equipped with SFP+ interface adapters.
The first 16 ports are switchable 1-Gigabit and 10-Gigabit ports. Up to 12 additional 10-Gigabit Ethernet
ports are available on the expansion modules.
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration Guide
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