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Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Overview of the Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches
Cisco Nexus 3064 Switch
Figure 1-6 Rear View of the Cisco Nexus 3064 Switch
Ports for the Cisco Nexus 3064 Switch
The switch chassis includes the following ports:
• 1- and 10-Gigabit Ethernet downlink ports (48 ports)
• 40-Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports (4 ports, each handling 4 x 10-Gigabit Ethernet)
• 100/1000 Ethernet management ports (2 ports)
• Console port (1 port)
• USB port (1 port)
The chassis has 48 1- and 10-Gigabit Ethernet downlink ports that you connect to servers, which are
often in the same rack or a nearby rack. You use Small Form factor Pluggable Plus (SFP+) transceivers
with copper or optical cables to connect the switch to the servers. The ports are numbered from left to
right from 1 to 48 with the odd-numbered ports on top and the even-numbered ports on the bottom.
You use up to four 40-Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports to connect the switch to one to four hosts or
switches. You use a Quad SFP+ (QSFP+) transceiver for each of these ports. That transceiver is either
already connected to four copper cables, each handling 10 Gigabits of data, with a SFP+ transceiver on
each cable, or you connect an optical cable to the QSFP+ transceiver and to another QSFP+ transceiver
on another switch.
Two 100/1000 Ethernet management ports enable you to manage switch operations. You can connect to
the switch through these two ports by using an RJ-45 connector on a copper cable.
One console port enables you to initially configure the switch and to perform troubleshooting operations.
You use an RJ-45 connector with a copper cable to connect to this port.
One USB port enables you to save or load switch configurations.
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1ID and Status LEDs 340-Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports (4)
21- and 10-Gigabit Ethernet downlink ports (48) 4Grounding pad