Cisco Nexus 7000 Design Manual page 17

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Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch
The modular Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switch offers a comprehensive one-platform solution for data
center networks. It offers aggregation, high density, and end-of-row and top-of-rack server connectivity.
For campus core deployments, it provides a scalable, highly resilient, high-performance solution. The
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series platform runs on Cisco NX-OS Software. It was specifically designed for the
most mission-critical deployments in the data center and on campus.
The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was designed around four principles:
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Cisco UCS Adapters—Wire-once architecture offers a range of options to converge the fabric,
optimize virtualization and simplify management. Cisco adapters support VM-FEX technology, see
"Cisco VM-FEX" section on page 19
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10277/prod_module_series_home.html
Infrastructure scalability
Design that provides scalability to more than 15Tbps for ongoing investment protection
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Support for consolidated networks with virtual port channel innovations to scale beyond 1500
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ports
Multicore, multithreaded OS to optimize CPU resources and offload tasks to processors
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distributed across the modules
Cisco Trusted Security (Cisco TrustSec®) for scalable security with link-layer encryption,
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security group access control lists, and role-based access control
– Flexible NetFlow to optimize the network infrastructure, reducing operating costs and
improving capacity planning capabilities
Operational continuity
– Lossless nondisruptive upgrades for zero-service downtime through no single point of failure in
the system hardware and a modular operating system
– Innovative stateful process restart for nondisruptive operations in event of process termination
– Comprehensive Extensible Markup Language (XML) API for total platform control
Transport flexibility
Foundation for unified fabrics with Cisco DCE unified I/O and FCoE
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Virtualized control plane and data plane forwarding for optimized performance
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Virtual device contexts (VDCs) to maximize software and hardware resource utilization while
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providing strong security and software fault isolation
Built to currently support high-density GbE and 10GbE and the emerging 40Gbps and 100Gbps
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Ethernet standards
Data center switching features
In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) enables hitless upgrades with zero packet loss
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NetFlow provides visibility and flexible monitoring and control over the network
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Multihop FCoE provides director-class FCoE on a modular platform to offer rich LAN and SAN
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services
OTV and LISP enable seamless workload mobility across geographically separated data centers
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MPLS service supports multi-tenant segmentation within and between data centers
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for details. For more information Cisco UCS Adapters, see:
VMware vSphere 5.1 on FlexPod with Nexus 7000 Using FCoE
FlexPod Design Details
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