Virtual Interfaces; Expansion Modules; Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Hardware - Cisco N5010P-N2K-BE Software Configuration Manual

Chapter 1 Product Overview
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Virtual Interfaces

When FCoE is enabled, a physical Ethernet cable carries traffic for a logical Fibre Channel connection.
The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch uses virtual interfaces to represent the logical Fibre Channel
connections. For configuration purposes, virtual Fibre Channel interfaces are implemented as Layer 2
subinterfaces of the physical Ethernet interface.
Ethernet features (such as link debounce timer and VLAN membership) are configured on the physical
Ethernet interface. Logical Fibre Channel features (such as VSAN membership) are configured on the
virtual Fibre Channel interfaces.

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Hardware

The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series includes the Cisco Nexus 5010 and Cisco Nexus 5020 switches. The Cisco
Nexus 5000 Series switch hardware is described in the following topics:
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Chassis
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.

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:
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The expansion modules are field-replaceable units (FRUs) that support online insertion and removal
(OIR).
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Chassis, page 1-3
Expansion Modules, page 1-3
Fabric Extender, page 1-4
Ethernet Interfaces, page 1-4
Fibre Channel Interfaces, page 1-4
Management Interfaces, page 1-4
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.
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration Guide
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Hardware
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