N5K-C5596T-FA Specifications

●  MAC address table entries: 32,000

●  Low-latency cut-through design that provides predictable, consistent traffic latency regardless of packet size, traffic pattern, or enabled features on 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces

●  Line-rate traffic throughput on all ports

●  Expansion modules

●  16-port 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE module

●  8-port 8/4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel plus 8-port 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE module

●  Unified port module consisting of 16 ports configurable as 8/4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel or 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE

●  4-port QSFP expansion module

●  12-port 10G BASE-T module (Cisco Nexus 5596T only)

●  Layer 3 module (Cisco Nexus 5596UP and 5596T only; one per system)

●  Layer 3 daughter card (Cisco Nexus 5548P and 5548UP only; one per system)

●  Extension through the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series

●  IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation

●  Support for up to 4096 VLANs

●  Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+) (IEEE 802.1w compatible)

●  Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) (IEEE 802.1s): 64 instances

●  Spanning Tree PortFast

●  Spanning Tree root guard

●  Spanning Tree Bridge Assurance

●  Cisco EtherChannel technology (up to 16 ports per EtherChannel)

●  Cisco vPC technology

●  Enhanced vPC enable vPC between Cisco Nexus 5000 and 2000 Series as well as between Cisco Nexus 3000 Series and end host

●  vPC configuration synchronization

●  Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): IEEE 802.3ad

●  Advanced port channel hashing based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information

●  Jumbo frames on all ports (up to 9216 bytes)

●  Pause frames (IEEE 802.3x)

●  Storm control (unicast, multicast, and broadcast)

●  Private VLANs

●  Private VLAN over trunks (isolated and promiscuous)

●  Private VLANs over vPC and EtherChannels

●  VLAN Remapping

●  Cisco FabricPath

●  EvPC and vPC+ with FabricPath

●  Cisco Adapter FEX

●  Cisco Data Center VM FEX

●  Support for up to 24 fabric extenders on each Cisco Nexus 5500 platform

●  Support for up to 8000 prefixes and up to 16000 IPv4 and 8000 IPv6 host entries

●  Support for up to 8000 multicast routes

●  Support for up to 8000 IGMP groups

●  Support for 1000 VRF entries

●  Support for up to 4096 VLANs

●  16-way equal-cost multipathing (ECMP)

●  1664 ingress and 2048 egress access control list (ACL) entries

●  Routing protocols: Static, Routing Information Protocol Version2 (RIPv2), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First Version 2 (OSPFv2), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

●  IPv6 Routing Protocols: Static, Open Shortest Path First Version 3 (OPFv3), Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv6), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRPv6)

●  IPv6 VRF Lite

●  Hot-Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

●  ACL: Routed ACL with Layer 3 and 4 options to match ingress and egress ACL

●  Multicast: Protocol Independent Multicast Version 2 (PIMv2) sparse mode, Source Specific Multicast (SSM), Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), Internet Group Management Protocol Versions 2, and 3 (IGMP v2, and v3), and Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)

●  Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF): VRF-lite (IP VPN); VRF-aware unicast; and BGP-, OSPF-, RIP-, and VRF-aware multicast

●  Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRFP) with ACL; strict and loose modes

●  Jumbo frame support (up to 9216 bytes)

●  Support for up to 16 fabric extender on each Nexus 5500 with L3 modules

●  RFC 896

●  8 hardware queues per port

●  Per-port QoS configuration

●  CoS trust

●  Port-based CoS assignment

●  Modular QoS CLI (MQC) compliance – IPv4 and IPv6

●  ACL-based QoS classification (Layers 2, 3, and 4)

●  MQC CoS marking

●  Per-port virtual output queuing

●  CoS-based egress queuing

●  Egress strict-priority queuing

●  Egress port-based scheduling: Weighted Round-Robin (WRR)

●  Control Plan Policing (CoPP) – IPv4 and IPv6

●  Standard and extended Layer 2 ACLs: MAC addresses, protocol type, etc.

●  Standard and extended Layer 3 to 4 ACLs: IPv4 and IPv6, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP and ICMPv6), TCP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), etc.

●  VLAN-based ACLs (VACLs)

●  Port-based ACLs (PACLs)

●  Named ACLs

●  Optimized ACL distribution

●  ACLs on virtual terminals (VTYs)

●  ACL logging on management interface

●  Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) snooping with Option 82

●  Dynamic Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Inspection

●  IP source guard

●  DHCP relay

●  Cisco CTS (Authentication and Policy download from ACS)

●  Ethernet Port Security

●  IPv6 RACL

●  IPv6 PACL

●  IPv6 VACL

●  Hot-swappable field-replaceable power supplies, fan modules, and expansion modules

●  1:1 power redundancy

●  N:1 fan module redundancy

●  CLI-based console to provide detailed out-of-band management

●  In-band switch management

●  Locator and beacon LEDs on Cisco Nexus 2000 Series

●  Port-based locator and beacon LEDs

●  Configuration synchronization

●  Module preprovisioning

●  Configuration rollback

●  Secure Shell Version 2 (SSHv2)

●  Telnet

●  AAA

●  AAA with RBAC

●  RADIUS

●  TACACS+

●  Syslog (8 servers)

●  Embedded packet analyzer

●  SNMPv1, v2, and v3 (IPv4 & IPv6)

●  Enhanced SNMP MIB support

●  XML (NETCONF) support

●  Remote monitoring (RMON)

●  Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for management traffic

●  Unified username and passwords across CLI and SNMP

●  Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (MS-CHAP)

●  Digital certificates for management between switch and RADIUS server

●  Cisco Discovery Protocol Versions 1 and 2

●  RBAC

●  Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) on physical, port channel, VLAN, and Fibre Channel interfaces

●  Encapsulated Remote SPAN (ERSPAN)

●  Ingress and egress packet counters per interface

●  Network Time Protocol (NTP)

●  Cisco GOLD

●  Comprehensive bootup diagnostic tests

●  Call Home

●  Smart Call Home

●  Cisco Fabric Manager

●  Cisco DCNM

●  CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS)

●  PFC link distance support: 3000m

●  CEE-compliant DCBX Protocol

●  CEE- and IEEE-compliant Enhanced Transmission Selection

●  T11 FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) (FC-BB-5)

●  Any 10 Gigabit Ethernet port configurable as FCoE

●  SAN administration separate from LAN administration

●  FCP

●  Fibre Channel forwarding (FCF)

●  Fibre Channel standard port types: E, F, and NP

●  Fibre Channel enhanced port types: VE, TE, and VF

●  F-port trunking

●  F-port channeling

●  Direct attachment of FCoE and Fibre Channel targets

●  Up to 240 buffer credits per native Fibre Channel port

●  Up to 32 VSANs per switch

●  Fibre Channel (SAN) port channel

●  Native Interop Mode 1

●  Native Interop Mode 2

●  Native Interop Mode 3

●  Native Interop Mode 4

●  VSAN trunking

●  Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI)

●  Fibre Channel ID (FCID) persistence

●  Distributed device alias services

●  In-order delivery

●  Port tracking

●  Cisco N-Port Virtualization (NPV) technology

●  N-port identifier virtualization (NPIV)

●  Fabric services: Name server, registered state change notification (RSCN), login services, and name-server zoning

●  Per-VSAN fabric services

●  Cisco Fabric Services

●  Diffie-Hellman Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (DH-CHAP) and Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP)

●  Distributed device alias services

●  Host-to-switch and switch-to-switch FC-SP authentication

●  Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF)

●  Fabric binding for Fibre Channel

●  Standard zoning

●  Port security

●  Domain and port

●  Enhanced zoning

●  SAN port channels

●  Cisco Fabric Analyzer

●  Fibre Channel traceroute

●  Fibre Channel ping

●  Fibre Channel debugging

●  Cisco Fabric Manager support

●  Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)

●  Boot from SAN over VPC/EVPC

●  CISCO-SMI

●  SNMPv2-TM

●  SNMPv2-TC

●  IANA-ADDRESS-FAMILY-NUMBERS-MIB

●  IANAifType-MIB

●  IANAiprouteprotocol-MIB

●  HCNUM-TC

●  CISCO-TC

●  SNMPv2-MIB

●  SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB

●  SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

●  SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB

●  SNMP-TARGET-MIB

●  SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB

●  SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB

●  CISCO-SNMP-VACM-EXT-MIB

●  TCP-MIB

●  OSPF-MIB

●  BGP4-MIB

●  CISCO-HSRP-MIB

●  CISCO-FC-FE-MIB

●  CISCO-FCSP-MIB

●  CISCO-PORT-TRACK-MIB

●  CISCO-PSM-MIB

●  CISCO-FC-SPAN-MIB

●  CISCO-PORT-CHANNEL-MIB

●  CISCO-RSCN-MIB

●  CISCO-NS-MIB

●  CISCO-FCS-MIB

●  CISCO-DM-MIB

●  FIBRE-CHANNEL-FE-MIB

●  CISCO-FC-ROUTE-MIB

●  CISCO-FSPF-MIB

●  CISCO-ZS-MIB

●  CISCO-ZS-EXT-MIB

●  CISCO-VSAN-MIB

●  CISCO-CFS-MIB

●  CISCO-FCPING-MIB

●  CISCO-FCTRACEROUTE-MIB

●  CISCO-FDMI-MIB

●  CISCO-FC-DEVICE-ALIAS-MIB

●  CISCO-WWNMGR-MIB

●  FCMGMT-MIB

●  CISCO-VEDM-MIB

●  CISCO-FCOE-MIB

●  CISCO-Virtual-Interface-MIB

●  IF-MIB

●  CISCO-ENTITY-EXT-MIB

●  CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB

●  CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB

●  CISCO-FLASH-MIB

●  CISCO-SYSTEM-MIB

●  CISCO-SYSTEM-EXT-MIB

●  CISCO-IP-IF-MIB

●  CISCO-IF-EXTENSION-MIB

●  CISCO-SERVER-INTERFACE-MIB

●  CISCO-NTP-MIB

●  CISCO-IMAGE-MIB

●  CISCO-IMAGE-CHECK-MIB

●  CISCO-IMAGE-UPGRADE-MIB

●  CISCO-CONFIG-COPY-MIB

●  CISCO-ENTITY-VENDORTYPE-OID-MIB

●  CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB

●  NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB

●  DIFFSERV-MIB

●  CISCO-CALLHOME-MIB

●  CISCO-SYSLOG-EXT-MIB

●  CISCO-PROCESS-MIB

●  RMON-MIB

●  CISCO-RMON-CONFIG-MIB

●  CISCO-HC-ALARM-MIB

●  CISCO-AAA-SERVER-EXT-MIB

●  CISCO-COMMON-ROLES-MIB

●  CISCO-COMMON-MGMT-MIB

●  CISCO-RADIUS-MIB

●  CISCO-SECURE-SHELL-MIB

●  TCP/IP MIBs

●  INET-ADDRESS-MIB

●  TCP-MIB

●  CISCO-TCP-MIB

●  UDP-MIB

●  IP-MIB

●  CISCO-IP-PROTOCOL-FILTER-MIB

●  CISCO-DNS-CLIENT-MIB

●  CISCO-PORTSECURITY- MIB

●  CISCO-LICENSE-MGR-MIB

●  CISCO-FEATURE-CONTROL-MIB

●  CISCO-CDP-MIB

●  CISCO-RF-MIB

●  CISCO-ETHERNET-FABRIC-EXTENDER-MIB

●  CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB

●  IEEE 802.1p: CoS prioritization

●  IEEE 802.1Q: VLAN tagging

●  IEEE 802.1Qaz: Enhanced transmission selection

●  IEEE 802.1Qbb: Per-priority Pause

●  IEEE 802.1s: Multiple VLAN instances of Spanning Tree Protocol

●  IEEE 802.1w: Rapid reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol

●  IEEE 802.3: Ethernet

●  IEEE 802.3ad: LACP with fast timers

●  IEEE 802.3ae: 10 Gigabit Ethernet

●  SFF 8431 SFP+ CX1 support

●  RMON

●  IEEE 1588-2008: Precision Time Protocol (Boundary Clock)

●  FC-PH, Amendment 1 (ANSI/INCITS 230-1994/AM1 1996)

●  FC-PH, Amendment 2 (ANSI/INCITS 230-1994/AM2-1999)

●  FC-PH-2, Revision 7.4 (ANSI/INCITS 297-1997)

●  FC-PH-3, Revision 9.4 (ANSI/INCITS 303-1998)

●  FC-PI, Revision 13 (ANSI/INCITS 352-2002)

●  FC-PI-2, Revision 10 (ANSI/INCITS 404-2006)

●  FC-PI-4, Revision 7.0

●  FC-FS, Revision 1.9 (ANSI/INCITS 373-2003)

●  FC-FS-2, Revision 0.91

●  FC-LS, Revision 1.2

●  FC-SW-2, Revision 5.3 (ANSI/INCITS 355-2001)

●  FC-SW-3, Revision 6.6 (ANSI/INCITS 384-2004)

●  FC-GS-3, Revision 7.01 (ANSI/INCITS 348-2001)

●  FC-GS-4, Revision 7.91 (ANSI/INCITS 387-2004)

●  FC-BB-5, Revision 2.0 for FCoE

●  FCP, Revision 12 (ANSI/INCITS 269-1996)

●  FCP-2, Revision 8 (ANSI/INCITS 350-2003)

●  FCP-3, Revision 4 (ANSI/INCITS 416-2006)

●  FC-MI, Revision 1.92 (INCITS TR-30-2002, except for FL-ports and Class 2)

●  FC-MI-2, Revision 2.6 (INCITS TR-39-2005, except for FL-ports and Class 2)

●  FC-SP, Revision 1.6

●  FC-DA, Revision 3.1 (INCITS TR-36-2004, except for FL-ports, SB-ports and Class 2)

●  Class of Service: Class 3, Class F

●  Fibre Channel standard port types: E and F

●  Fibre Channel enhanced port types: SD and TE

Physical Specifications

●  Small 10 Gigabit Ethernet form factor

●  Optical interoperability with XENPAK, X2, and XFP interface types

●  Low power consumption

●  Hot-swappable device

●  Cisco Nexus 5500 platform products support 8-Gbps Fibre Channel-compatible SFP+ for native Fibre Channel connectivity options; 8-Gbps Fibre Channel-compatible short-reach and 10-km long-reach SFP transceiver modules operate at 8/4/2 Gbps and are supported in the 8‑Gbps-capable native Fibre Channel ports on expansion modules and unified ports