N5K-C5596T-FA – Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch

SKU: N5K-C5596T-FA
Detail: N5K-C5596T-FA - Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch
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Last Updated: January 22, 2020
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N5K-C5596T-FA is the Cisco Nexus 5596T Switch Chassis, including 32 10G BASE-T fixed ports and 16 1/10G SFP+ fixed ports, Back-to-Front Airflow, 2 1100W AC Power Supplies, Fan Trays, 3 Expansion Slots.

N5K-C5596T-FA Specifications

Performance ●  Layer 2 hardware forwarding at 1920 Gbps or 1428 mpps; Layer 3 performance of up to 160 Gbps or 240 mpps ●  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
Interfaces ●  32 fixed ports of 1 and 10G BASE-T and 16 SFP+ fixed ports configurable as 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE or 8/4/2/1-Gbps native Fibre Channel; additional interfaces through up to three expansion modules ●  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
Layer 2 Features ●  Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks ●  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
Layer 3 Features ●  Layer 3 interfaces: Routed ports on Cisco Nexus 5500 platform interfaces, switch virtual interface (SVI), port channels, subinterfaces, and port channel subinterfaces for a total of 4096 entries ●  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
QoS ●  Layer 2 IEEE 802.1p (CoS) ●  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
Security ●  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 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
High-Availability Features ●  In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) for Layer 2 ●  Hot-swappable field-replaceable power supplies, fan modules, and expansion modules ●  1:1 power redundancy ●  N:1 fan module redundancy
Management ●  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 ●  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)
Data Center Bridging ●  CEE- and IEEE-compliant PFC (per-priority Pause frame support) ●  PFC link distance support: 3000m ●  CEE-compliant DCBX Protocol ●  CEE- and IEEE-compliant Enhanced Transmission Selection
Fibre Channel and FCoE Features (Requires Storage Services License) ●  T11 standards-compliant FCoE (FC-BB-5) ●  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
Generic MIBs ●  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
Layer 3 MIBs ●  UDP-MIB ●  TCP-MIB ●  OSPF-MIB ●  BGP4-MIB ●  CISCO-HSRP-MIB
Fibre Channel MIBs ●  CISCO-ST-TC ●  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
Ethernet MIBs ●  CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB ●  CISCO-Virtual-Interface-MIB
Configuration MIBs ●  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
Monitoring MIBs ●  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
Security MIBs ●  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
Miscellaneous MIBs ●  START-MIB ●  CISCO-LICENSE-MGR-MIB ●  CISCO-FEATURE-CONTROL-MIB ●  CISCO-CDP-MIB ●  CISCO-RF-MIB ●  CISCO-ETHERNET-FABRIC-EXTENDER-MIB ●  CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB
Industry Standards ●  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 ●  SFF 8431 SFP+ CX1 support ●  RMON ●  IEEE 1588-2008: Precision Time Protocol (Boundary Clock)
Fibre Channel Standards ●  FC-PH, Revision 4.3 (ANSI/INCITS 230-1994) ●  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

SFP+ Optics Cisco Nexus 5500 platform supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ copper Twinax cables for short distances and SFP+ optics (10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR, 10GBASE-ER, GLC-ZX-SM and Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender Transceiver [FET-10G]) for longer distances. SFP+ has several advantages compared to other 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity options: ●  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
Physical (height x width x depth) 3.47 x 17.3 x 29.5 in. (8.8 x 43.9 x 74.9 cm)
Operating temperature 32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C)
Nonoperating (storage) temperature -40 to 158°F (-40 to 70°C)
Humidity 5 to 95% (noncondensing)
Altitude 0 to 10,000 ft (0 to 3000m)
Weight 47.5 lb (21.55 kg)

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