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Nexus 7000 Modules and their Racing Heritage

Fryguy — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:08:42 +0000

I figured I would take a few moments and blog about the different Nexus 7000 I/O modules families – the M1 and F1 (formerly D1). It is my understanding that the M in M1 stands for Multifuction and the F in F1 stands for Fabric/FCOE (or fast, depending on who you ask) . So, can you sense a car theme here with this line-up? M1? F1? Well, it only gets better – read on!
(Update 8/7/2012) – Barry Reyes (Twitter) posted a picture on twitter about Formula 1 Racking and the Nexus line cards. Below is that picture:

First lets start with the M1 line cards – the N7K-M108X2-12L, N7K-M132XP-12, N7K-M148GT/S, N7K-M148GT/S-11L, N7K-M102CF-22L and N7K-M106FQ-23L. Some of the common features to all the M1 series of line cards is that they are L2/L3 capable, will support LISP as well as OTV.

The N7K-M108X2-12L is a 8-port 10G line card that uses the X2 series of GBICs. The X2 GBICs that are supported include the SR, LR, LRM, ER, ZR, LX4 and the CX4. This card was named after the Adelaide Street Circuit in South Australia. Some of the specs of this card are:

Nexus 7009 – More information

Fryguy — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:00:38 +0000

A few months ago I did a quick post on the Nexus 7009 when it was pseudo announced (here ). When I was attending Cisco Live 2011 last week in Las Vegas I found out that they had a Nexus 7009 in their Data Center booth in World of Solutions for all to see. So, I figured I would post some updated information that I was able to gather or figure out. All this information was being openly spoken in the booth, nothing here was gathered from any other resource then what I was able to hear. To recap, below is a picture of the new family member, the 7009 along side its big brothers the 7010 and the 7018. As you can see there are some nice size differences. The Nexus 7009 us 14RU, the 7010 21RU, and the 7018 25RU. [][2]

The Nexus 7009 – and what is this, Nexus 7006?!??!?!?!

Fryguy — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:00:52 +0000

Since Cisco posted that picture the other day, you know this one:

Well, since that picture was posted there has been some buzz around the chassis in the twitter feeds. Not much is officially know about this box – but the picture above proves it does exist. Not only that, I recall seeing a picture from Cisco Live 2011 – London where the EMC booth had one of these Nexus 7009 looking switches in their booth. Well here is some additional information that I have located using the assumed part number of N7K-C7009
On Cisco’s website they have a MIB posted called CISCO-ENTITY-VENDORTYPE-OID-MIB.my (clicking on that MIB will allow you to view/download it – original link here ). From what I can gather in the MIB – the Nexus 7009 will have the new Fabric-2 cards, no Fab-1 cards are even listed for this chassis. When you search the MIB, you can find the following information:
cevChassisN7Kc7009              OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { cevChassis 932 } — N7K-C7009 nexus-9-slot chassis
cevBackplaneN7Kc7009                    OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { cevBackplane 57 }       — MosPort9 N7K-C7009 Nexus-9-slot-backplane
cevFanN7Kc7009FanTray           OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { cevFan 129 } — N7K-C7009-FAN Trinacria-fan-nexus9slot
cevN7Kc7009Fab2         OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { cevModuleN7KType 14 }           — dijon9 N7K-C7009-FAB2 Fabric for Nexus7000 9slot boxster
Bonus information contained within the MIB is information on the, yet unannounced, Nexus 7006!
Granted, this is only speculation and such – but the MIB information matches what the 7009 has as well. Only time will tell if this is true.
cevChassisN7Kc7006              OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { cevChassis 1054 } — Nexus7000 6slot elsie n7k chassis N7K-C7006
cevBackplaneN7Kc7006                    OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { cevBackplane 60 }       — Nexus7000 6slot elsie n7k backplane N7K-C7006
cevFanN7Kc7006FanTray           OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { cevFan 147 } — N7K-C7006-FAN fan for nexus 6slot-chassis
I also did some searching and found this list of Nexus 7009 Part Numbers, and my assumed descriptions (in blue) of what they are.
N7K-C7009-ACC-KIT    Nexus 7009 Accessory Kit
N7K-C7009-BSK             Nexus 7009 Bottom Support Kit
N7K-C7009-CAB-TOP    Nexus 7009 Top section Cable Management?
N7K-C7009-CM-BLK      Nexus 7009 Cable Management Blank? Unknown
N7K-C7009-F-BLANK Nexus 7009 Fabric Blank Interface ?
N7K-C7009-FAB-2        Nexus 7009 Fabric 2 Card
N7K-C7009-FAN            Nexus 7009 Fan Tray
N7K-C7009-FD-MB       Nexus 7009 Front Dook Kit
N7K-C7009-L                  Nexus 7009 License
N7K-C7009-RMK           Nexus 7009 Rack Mount Kit
N7K-C7009-SHPPKG    Nexus 7009 Shipping package
N7K-C7009-XL       Nexus 7009 XL
L-N7K-C7009-XL           Nexus 7009 Scalable Feature License (allows XL featuers without requiring a hardware module change)
Another part-number that I have found that is NOT referenced on the Cisco site is this 5.6KW power supply. Wonder if the 7009 can support a smaller power supply, or this is for the Nexus 7006
N7K-AC-5.6KW         5.6kW AC Power Supply