Expansion Modules; Ports - Cisco Nexus 6000 Installation Manual

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Expansion Modules

Expansion modules allow the Cisco Nexus 6004 switch to be configured as cost-effective 10/40-Gigabit
Ethernet switches
and as I/O consolidation platforms with native Fibre Channel connectivity.
The Cisco Nexus 6004 switch has four slots that can be used for the following expansion module:
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You can hot swap the expansion modules during operations.
Figure 1-6
Figure 1-6 Cisco Nexus 6004 Expansion Module

Ports

All the individual ports on the Cisco Nexus 6004 switch are numbered and groups of ports are numbered
based on their function. Depending on how it is configured, there are 96 ports on the the Cisco Nexus
6004 switch. The ports are numbered from top-to-bottom and from left-to-right. The fixed ports are
grouped together and the modular ports are grouped together.
Figure 1-7
OL-15902-01
N6K-C6004-M12Q:
is a hot swappable linecard expansion module (LEM) that provides 12x 40-Gigabit Ethernet/FCoE
QSFP ports.
shows the N6K-C6004-M12Q expansion module.
shows how ports are numbered and grouped by function.
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