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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter1 Overview
Cisco Nexus 5000 Platform Switches
SFP Fibre Channel Transceivers
The Cisco Nexus 5020 switch also supports the following SFP Fibre Channel transceivers (see
Table 1 -10):
Cisco Nexus 5010 Switch
This section describes the Cisco Nexus 5010 switch and its components. This section includes the
following topics:
•Features, page 1-40
•Chassis, page 1-41
•Expansion Modules, page1-42
•Ports, page 1-47
•Power Supplies, page1-48
•Fan Modules, page1-49
•Transceivers, page1-50
Features
The Cisco Nexus 5010 switch is a top-of-rack switch that provides Ethernet and Fibre Channel
consolidation in a single physical cable. The Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocol is used to
consolidate Ethernet and Fibre Channel traffic onto the same physical connection between the server and
the switch. As a top-of-rack switch, all the servers in the rack connect to the Cisco Nexus 5010 switch,
and it connects to the LAN or SAN.
The Cisco Nexus 5010 switch is a part of a family of switches that provide 10-Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE
ports and both 10-Gigabit Ethernet and native 4-, 2-, or 1-Gbps Fibre Channel ports. The switches
provide consolidated I/O connectivity to both production Ethernet LANs and Fibre Channel SANs in a
cost-effective, high-performance, low-latency Ethernet switch.
The Cisco Nexus 5010 switch has the following features:
•One slot on the back of the switch for an optional uplink Generic Expansion Module [GEM]. The
following modules can be inserted into this slot: N5K-M1404, N5K-M1600 and N5K-M1008.
•There are 20 to 28 ports on the back of the switch depending on which GEM is installed. Twenty
ports on Cisco Nexus 5010 switch belong to the base switch. Additionally, you can insert a module
with six or eight ports.
•Two slots on the front of the switch for hot swap-capable power supplies.
•Two slots on the front of the switch for fan modules. Each fan module houses six fans. The
combination of six fans per module and two modules provides the switch with a total of 12 fans.
•The L1/L2/Mgmt1 ports are not usable. They are disabled at this time
Table1-10 SFP Fibre Channel Transceiver
Model Description
DS-SFP-FC4G-SW 4-, 2-, or 1-Gbps Fibre Channel—short
wavelength SFP module