Cisco Nexus Switches : Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Chassis
Whenever you think that you have the Datacenter environment and you need to deploy access layer switches, which models came into your mind ? well if there is Cisco Nexus 7K in the core and the distribution layer it is important that you can choose the switch accordingly. It can be FEX directly connected to the Cisco Nexus 7K Switch as a access layer switch, but in the recommended design of the datacenter generally we have Cisco Nexus 5K at the access layer.
By using Cisco Nexus 5K at the access layer you can have the end users may be the servers connected to that access layer switch. Now question is like if you have more virtual or physical servers need to be connected at the access layer what to do ? I mean scalability of the network at the access layer ?
Right we have the solution for the same as well, We can connect the FEX with the ports required with the Cisco Nexus 5K switch. FEX is a dumb device, all the configurations done at Cisco Nexus 5K switch as a parent switch to that FEX device.
Note : If i am talking about the FEX it means i am talking about the Cisco Nexus 2K Switch
So Cisco nexus 5K switch is an important part in the access layer of the datacenter environment. there are various models in Cisco Nexus 5K Switch and they are :
These are the various models available in the Cisco Nexus 5K Switch. It totally depends upon the nature of the requirement in your network. All these switches have the different ports and the capabilities around it. Like if I am talking for an example, Cisco Nexus 5696 and Cisco Nexus 56128, there is a port difference like you have 96 ports in Cisco Nexus 5696 and 128 Ports in Cisco nexus 56128. Similarly you can have the major difference in the other Cisco nexus 5k switch models in the domain.
Flexible Architecture:
By using Cisco Nexus 5K at the access layer you can have the end users may be the servers connected to that access layer switch. Now question is like if you have more virtual or physical servers need to be connected at the access layer what to do ? I mean scalability of the network at the access layer ?
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| Fig 1.1 Cisco Nexus 5020 Switch |
Right we have the solution for the same as well, We can connect the FEX with the ports required with the Cisco Nexus 5K switch. FEX is a dumb device, all the configurations done at Cisco Nexus 5K switch as a parent switch to that FEX device.
Note : If i am talking about the FEX it means i am talking about the Cisco Nexus 2K Switch
So Cisco nexus 5K switch is an important part in the access layer of the datacenter environment. there are various models in Cisco Nexus 5K Switch and they are :
- Cisco Nexus 5010
- Cisco Nexus 5020
- Cisco Nexus 5524
- Cisco Nexus 5548
- Cisco Nexus 5596
- Cisco Nexus 5624
- Cisco Nexus 5648
- Cisco Nexus 5672
- Cisco Nexus 5696
- Cisco Nexus 56128
These are the various models available in the Cisco Nexus 5K Switch. It totally depends upon the nature of the requirement in your network. All these switches have the different ports and the capabilities around it. Like if I am talking for an example, Cisco Nexus 5696 and Cisco Nexus 56128, there is a port difference like you have 96 ports in Cisco Nexus 5696 and 128 Ports in Cisco nexus 56128. Similarly you can have the major difference in the other Cisco nexus 5k switch models in the domain.
Flexible Architecture:
- It includes Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 10-BASE-T, 40 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks, native Fibre Channel and FCOE ( Fiber Channel over Ethernet )
- It can also support Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation (DFA) which can help you for the virtualization and cloud deployments in the network.
- Cisco FabricPath is supported for scalable Layer 2 networks
Well we will come up with the more specifications on all these switches separately.These switches also connected to the MDS switches which are generally used for the storage purposes in the datacenter domain.
