N5K-C5672UP Specifications

● Layer 2 and 3 hardware forwarding at 1.44 Tbps; 1071 mpps (64-byte packets)

● Support for up to 256,000 combined entries of MAC addresses and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) entries

● Low latency of approximately 1 microsecond using cut-through forwarding for predictable, consistent traffic latency regardless of packet size, traffic pattern, or features enabled on 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces

● 25-MB buffer per 12 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ interfaces

● Line-rate traffic throughput on all ports in Layer 2 and 3 mode

● 48 fixed 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ ports with 16 of the 48 ports being unified, and 6 fixed 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ ports with 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet FCoE support on all respective ports and 2/4/8-Gbps Fibre Channel on all the unified ports

● Expansion module: 24 SFP+ unified ports plus 2 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ ports

● Conversion of 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports to 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces through QSFP+ breakout cable

● Fabric extension through the Cisco Nexus 2200 and 2300 platforms

● Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks

● IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation

● Support for up to 4000 VLANs

● Support for up to 4000 access control list (ACL) entries

● 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

● vPC configuration synchronization

● vPC shutdown

● 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

● FabricPath

● EvPC and vPC+ with FabricPath

● Adapter FEX

● Data Center VM-FEX

● Support for up to 24 fabric extenders (Layer 2) with each Cisco Nexus 5672UP, 5672UP-16G, and 56128P Switch

● RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) using Data Center Bridging (DCB) support (DCB Exchange [DCBX] no drop and priority flow control [PFC])

● Layer 3 interfaces: Routed ports, switch virtual interface (SVI), port channels, subinterfaces, and port-channel subinterfaces

● Support for up to 32,000 IPv4 and 8000 IPv6 host prefixes

● Support for up to 8000 multicast routes (IPv4)

● Support for up to 8000 IGMP snooping groups

● Support for 4000 Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) entries

● Support for up to 4096 VLANs

● Equal-Cost Multipathing (ECMP) up to 64 ways

● 4000 flexible ACL entries

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

● IPv6 routing protocols: Static, OPFv3, BGPv6, and EIGRPv6

● IPv6 VRF-lite

● BFD support: OSPFv2, BGPv4, EIGRP, and VRF instances

● Policy-Based Routing (IPv4 and IPv6)

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

● IP direct broadcast

● vPC+ routing protocol peering

● 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), Bidir-PIM, Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), IGMPv2 and v3, and Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)

● 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 24 fabric extenders on each Cisco Nexus 5600 10-Gbps platform switch

● Layer 2 IEEE 802.1p (class of service [CoS])

● 8 unicast queues and 8 multicast 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)

● Flexible TCAM carving

● MAC and ARP hardware carving

● MQC CoS marking

● Per-port virtual output queuing

● CoS-based egress queuing

● Egress strict-priority queuing

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

● Control-Plane Policing (CoPP): IPv4 and IPv6

● Ingress ACLs (standard and extended) on Ethernet and virtual Ethernet ports

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

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

● Ingress policing

● VLAN-based ACLs (VACLs)

● Port-based ACLs (PACLs)

● Named ACLs

● Optimized ACL distribution

● ACLs on virtual terminals (vtys)

● ACL logging (IPv4 only)

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

● Dynamic ARP Inspection

● IP source guard

● DHCP relay (up to 32 destinations)

● Ethernet port security

● IPv6 RACL, PACL, and VACL

● iSCSI type-length-value (TLV)

● Cisco In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) for Layer 2

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

● N+1 and N+N power redundancy

● N+1 fan module redundancy

● Switch management using 10/100/1000-Mbps management or console ports

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

● In-band switch management

● Port-based locator and beacon LEDs

● Configuration synchronization

● Configuration rollback

● Secure Shell Version 2 (SSHv2)

● Telnet

● Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA)

● AAA with RBAC

● RADIUS

● TACACS+

● Syslog (8 servers)

● Embedded packet analyzer

● SNMPv1, v2, and v3 (IPv4 and 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

● SPAN on physical, PortChannel and VLAN

● ERSPAN

● Ingress and egress packet counters per interface

● Network Time Protocol (NTP)

● Cisco Generic Online Diagnostics (GOLD)

● Comprehensive bootup diagnostic tests

● Cisco Embedded Event Manager (EEM)

● Cisco Call Home

● Cisco Smart Call Home

● Default Interface

● Cisco Fabric Manager

● Cisco Prime DCNM

● CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS)

● CEE- and IEEE-compliant PFC (per-priority Pause frame support: IEEE 802.1Qbb)

● PFC link distance support: 20 km

● CEE-compliant DCBX Protocol

● CEE- and IEEE-compliant enhanced transmission selection

● T11 standards-compliant FCoE (Fibre Channel-BB-5)

● T11 FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) (Fibre Channel-BB-5)

● Any 10 or 40 Gigabit Ethernet port configurable as FCoE

● SAN administration separate from LAN administration

● Fibre Channel forwarding (FCF)

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

● Direct attachment of FCoE targets

● Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI)

● Fibre Channel ID (FCID) persistence

● Distributed device alias services

● In-order delivery

● Port tracking

● Cisco FCoE 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

● Distributed device alias services

● Host-to-switch and switch-to-switch Fibre Channel-SP authentication

● Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF)

● Standard zoning

● Enhanced zoning

● Cisco Fabric Analyzer

● Cisco DCNM-SAN

● Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)

● Boot from SAN over vPC and Enhanced vPC (EvPC)

● FCP

● VSAN trunking

● Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI)

● Fibre Channel ID (FCID) persistence

● Distributed device alias services

● In-order delivery

● Port tracking

● Cisco NPV technology

● Fabric binding for Fibre Channel

● Port security

● Fibre Channel traceroute

● Fibre Channel ping

● Fibre Channel debugging

● SNMPv2-SMI

● 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

● UDP-MIB

● TCP-MIB

● OSPF-MIB

● BGP4-MIB

● CISCO-HSRP-MIB

● CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB

● CISCO-Virtual-Interface-MIB

● CISCO-VTP-MIB

● ENTITY-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

● DIFFSERV-DSCP-TC

● 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

● LLDP-MIB

● CISCO-AAA-SERVER-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

● START-MIB

● CISCO-LICENSE-MGR-MIB

● CISCO-FEATURE-CONTROL-MIB

● CISCO-CDP-MIB

● CISCO-RF-MIB

● CISCO-ETHERNET-FABRIC-EXTENDER-MIB

● CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB

● CISCO-FCOE-MIB

● CISCO-PORTCHANNEL-MIB

● CISCO-ZS-MIB

● IEEE 802.1D: Spanning Tree Protocol

● 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

● IEEE 802.3ba: 40 Gigabit Ethernet (Applies to 40G SR4, SR4-S, LR4, LR4-S, and CSR4 optics only)

● SFF 8431 SFP+ CX1 support

● RMON