Fibre Channel Interfaces; Management Interfaces; Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Software; Ethernet Switching - Cisco AP775A - Nexus Converged Network Switch 5010 Configuration Manual

Fibre Channel Interfaces

All of the 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports support FCoE. Each port can be used as a downlink (connected to a server)
or as an uplink (to the data center LAN).
Fibre Channel Interfaces
Fibre Channel ports are optional on the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch. When you use expansion modules
up to 8 Fibre Channel ports are available on the Cisco Nexus 5010 switch and up to 16 Fibre Channel ports
are available on the Cisco Nexus 5020 switch.
Each Fibre Channel port can be used as a downlink (connected to a server) or as an uplink (to the data center
SAN fabric).

Management Interfaces

A Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch has two dedicated management interfaces (one serial console port and one
10/100/1000 Ethernet interface).

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch Software

Ethernet Switching

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches are Layer 2 devices, which run Cisco NX-OS.
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches are designed to support high-density, high-performance Ethernet systems
and provide the following Ethernet switching features:
• IEEE 802.1D-2004 Rapid and Multiple Spanning Tree Protocols (802.1w and 802.1s)
• IEEE 802.1Q VLANs and trunks
• IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation
• Private VLANs
• EtherChannels and virtual port channels (vPCs)
• Traffic suppression (unicast, multicast, and broadcast)

FCoE and Fibre Channel Switching

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches support data center I/O consolidation by providing FCoE interfaces (to the
servers) and native Fibre Channel interfaces (to the SAN).
FCoE and Fibre Channel switching includes the following features:
• Cisco fabric services
• N-port virtualization
• VSANs and VSAN trunking
• Zoning
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