Nexus 9300 GX Series Switches Ds
Nexus 9300 GX Series Switches Ds
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Cisco provides two modes of operation for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. Organizations can deploy Cisco
Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI®) or Cisco NX-OS mode.
Cisco ACI is a holistic, intent-driven architecture with centralized automation and policy-based application
profiles. It provides a robust, transport network for dynamic workloads and is built on a network fabric that
combines time-tested protocols with new innovations to create a highly flexible, scalable, and resilient
architecture of low-latency, high-bandwidth links. This fabric delivers a network that can support the most
demanding and flexible data center environments.
Designed for the programmable network, the Cisco NX-OS operating system automates configuration and
management for customers who want to take advantage of the DevOps operation model and tool sets.
Switch models
Table 1 summarizes the Cisco Nexus GX Series Switches.
Model Description
Cisco Nexus 93600CD Switch 28 x 100/40-Gbps Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable (QSFP28) and
8 x 400/100-Gbps QSFP-DD ports
Cisco Nexus 9364C Switch 64 x 100/40-Gbps Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable (QSFP28)
Figure 1.
Cisco Nexus 9316D Switch
The Cisco Nexus 93600CD-GX Switch (Figure 2) is a 1RU switch that supports 12 Tbps of bandwidth and 4.0
bpps across 28 fixed 40/100G QSFP-28 ports and 8 fixed 10/25/40/50/100/200/400G QSFP-DD ports. The 28
ports support 10/25-Gbps. Please see feature table below for more information.
Figure 2.
Cisco Nexus 93600CD Switch
The Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX Switch (Figure 3) is a 2RU switch that supports 12.8 Tbps of bandwidth and over
4.3 bpps across 64 fixed 40/100G QSFP-28 ports. Please see feature table below for more information.
Figure 3.
Cisco Nexus 9364C Switch
● Architectural flexibility
◦ Industry-leading Cisco Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solution and Cisco ACI® support
◦ Support for standards-based VXLAN EVPN fabrics, inclusive of hierarchical multi-site support (refer to
VXLAN network with MP-BGP EVPN control plane for more information)
◦ Three-tier BGP architectures, enabling horizontal, non-blocking IPv6 network fabrics at web scale
◦ Segment Routing (SR and SRv6) allows the network to forward Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
packets and engineer traffic without Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) Traffic Engineering (TE). It
provides a control-plane alternative for increased network scalability and virtualization
◦ Comprehensive protocol support for Layer 3 (v4 and v6) unicast and multicast routing protocol suites,
including BGP, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP),
Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2), Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-
SM), Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
● Extensive programmability
◦ Day-zero automation through Power On Auto Provisioning (POAP), drastically reducing provisioning
time
◦ Pervasive APIs for all switch Command-Line Interface (CLI) functions (JSON-based RPC over
HTTP/HTTPs)
● High scalability, flexibility, and security
◦ Flexible forwarding tables support up to one million shared entries on GX models. Flexible use of
TCAM space allows for custom definition of Access Control List (ACL) templates
● Intelligent buffer management
◦ The platform offers Cisco’s innovative intelligent buffer management, which offers the capability to
distinguish mice and elephant flows and apply different queue management schemes to them based
on their network forwarding requirements in the event of link congestion
◦ Approximate Fair Dropping (AFD) with Elephant Trap (ETRAP). AFD distinguishes long-lived
elephant flows from short-lived mice flows, by using ETRAP. AFD exempts mice flows from the
dropping algorithm so that mice flows will get their fair share of bandwidth without being starved by
bandwidth-hungry elephant flows. Also, AFD tracks elephant flows and subjects them to the AFD
algorithm in the egress queue to grant them their fair share of bandwidth
◦ ETRAP measures the byte counts of incoming flows and compares this against the user-defined
ETRAP threshold. After a flow crosses the threshold, it becomes an elephant flow
◦ The platform offers lossless transport for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over converged
Ethernet with support of Data Center Bridging (DCB) protocols:
◦ Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) prevents drops in the network and pause-frame propagation per
priority class
◦ Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) reserves bandwidth per priority class in network contention
situations
◦ Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBX) can discover and exchange priority and bandwidth
information with endpoints
◦ The platform also supports Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN), which provides end-to-end
notification per IP flow by marking packets that experienced congestion, without dropping traffic. The
platform is capable of tracking ECN statistics, including the number of marked packets that have
experienced congestion
● LAN and SAN convergence
◦ Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) N-Port Virtualization (NPV) support enables the network
administrator to control domain IDs and points of management on a Fibre Channel network as it
scales. This feature enables LAN and SAN-converged networks on a lossless, reliable Ethernet
network
● Hardware and software high availability
◦ Virtual Port-Channel (vPC) technology provides Layer 2 multipathing through the elimination of
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). It also enables fully utilized bisectional bandwidth and simplified Layer
2 logical topologies without the need to change the existing management and deployment models
◦ The 64-way Equal-Cost MultiPath (ECMP) routing enables the use of Layer 3 fat-tree designs. This
feature helps organizations prevent network bottlenecks, increase resiliency, and add capacity with
little network disruption
◦ The switches use hot-swappable Power-Supply Units (PSUs) and fans with N+1 redundancy
◦ A single binary image supports every switch in the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series, simplifying image
management. The operating system is modular, with a dedicated process for each routing protocol: a
design that isolates faults while increasing availability. In the event of a process failure, the process
can be restarted without loss of state. The operating system supports hot and cold patching and
online diagnostics
◦ Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) is the network management platform for all Cisco NX-OS-
enabled deployments, spanning new fabric architectures, IP Fabric for Media, and storage networking
deployments for the Cisco Nexus-powered data center. Accelerate provisioning from days to minutes
and simplify deployments from day zero through day N. Reduce troubleshooting cycles with graphical
operational visibility for topology, network fabric, and infrastructure. Eliminate configuration errors and
automate ongoing change in a closed loop, with templated deployment models and configuration
compliance alerting with automatic remediation. Enjoy a real-time health summary for fabric, devices,
and topology. Correlated visibility for fabric (underlay, overlay, virtual and physical endpoints),
including compute visualization with VMware
◦ Network traffic monitoring with Cisco Nexus Data Broker builds simple, scalable, and cost-effective
network Test Access Points (TAPs) and Cisco Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) aggregation for
network traffic monitoring and analysis
● Cisco Network Assurance Engine (NAE)
◦ Cisco NAE continuously verifies if the network infrastructure is operating as per policy intent. It
leverages the power of mathematical models to reason on behalf of the operator in policy,
configuration, and dynamic state level. NAE can precisely indicate problems in the network, identify
which application or part of network is impacted, identify the root cause of the problem, and suggest
how to fix it. Its continuous verification approach transforms day-2 operations from reactive to
proactive mode and it does so without using any packet data. NAE helps avoid outages by predicting
the impact of changes, reducing network-related IT incidents and shrinking the mean time to repair by
up to 66 percent. NAE also helps assure network security and segmentation compliance. To learn
more about NAE, visit: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/data-center-analytics/network-
assurance-engine/index.html
Item Specifications
System memory ● 32 GB ● 32 GB ● Up to 32 GB
System buffer ● 80 MB ● 80 MB ● 80 MB
Management ports ● 2 ports: 1 RJ-45 and 1 SFP ● 2 ports: 1 RJ-45 and 1 SFP ● 2 ports: 1 RJ-45 and 1 SFP
USB Ports ● 1 ● 1 ● 1
Power Supplies ● 1100W AC, 1100W DC, ● 1100W AC, 1100W DC, 1100W ● 2000W AC, 2000W DC, 2000W
1100W HVAC/HVDC HVAC/HVDC HVAC/HVDC
Frequency (AC) ● 50 to 60 Hz ● 50 to 60 Hz ● 50 to 60 Hz
Airflow ● Port-side intake and ● Port-side intake and exhaust ● Port-side intake and exhaust
exhaust
Physical dimensions ● (H x W x D): 1.72 x 17.37 x ● (H x W x D): 1.72 x 17.37 x 25.5 in. ● Dimensions (H x W x D): 3.39 x
(H x W x D) 25.5 in. (4.37 x 44.13 x (4.37 x 44.13 x 64.8 cm) 17.41 x 22.59 in. (8.61 x 44.23
64.8 cm) x 57.4 cm)
Acoustics ● 73.2 dBA at 50% fan speed, ● 73.2 dBA at 50% fan speed, 81.8 ● 77.3 dBA at 50% fan speed,
81.8 dBA at 70% fan speed, dBA at 70% fan speed, and 88.8 88.6 dBA at 70% fan speed,
and 88.8 dBA at 100% fan dBA at 100% fan speed and 95.8 dBA at 100% fan
speed speed
The Cisco Nexus GX Series also introduces support of single-chip ACI spine-and-leaf functionality to enable
customers to use a given GX series device, either in ACI spine or ACI leaf deployment for fully flexible
deployments.
Maximum number of Access-Control-List (ACL) entries Per slice of the forwarding engine:
● 5000 ingress
● 2000 egress
● Max: 20,000 ingress, 8000 egress
*
More templates and greater scalability are on the roadmap. Refer to the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Verified Scalability Guide and
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller for the latest, exact scalability numbers validated for specific software.
**
Raw capacity of flow table
***
127 VLANs out of 4096 are reserved
Table 5. Weight
Component Weight
Cisco Nexus 9316D-GX without power supplies or fans 28.8 lbs (13 kg)
Cisco Nexus 93600CD-GX without power supplies or fans 28 lbs (12.7 kg)
Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX without power supplies or fans 29.2 lbs (13.2 kg)
Specification Description
Regulatory compliance Products should comply with CE Markings according to directives 2004/108/EC and
2006/95/EC.
Note: Cisco Nexus N9K-C9364C passes EMC Radiated Emissions standards in all
configurations, with the only exception being if more than 40 pluggable optics of Cisco part
number 10-3142-02 (or 10-3142-01) are used.
● CISPR24
● EN300386
● KN 61000-4 series
RoHS The product is RoHS-6 compliant with exceptions for leaded Ball Grid-Array (BGA) balls and
lead press-fit connectors.
Ordering information
Tables 7, 8, and 9 present ordering information for the Cisco Nexus GX Series switches.
Hardware
Fan options
NXA-FAN-35CFM-PI Nexus Fan, Nexus 2000, 3000, 9000 Single Fan, 35CFM, port side intake airflow
NXA-FAN-35CFM-PE Nexus Fan, Nexus 2000, 3000, 9000 Single Fan, 35CFM, port side exhaust airflow
Accessories
Hardware
N9K-C93600CD-GX Nexus 93600CD Spine and Leaf switch with 28p 100/40G QSFP28 and 8p 400/100G QSFP-DD
Fan options
NXA-FAN-35CFM-PI Nexus Fan, Nexus 2000, 3000, 9000 Single Fan, 35CFM, port side intake airflow
NXA-FAN-35CFM-PE Nexus Fan, Nexus 2000, 3000, 9000 Single Fan, 35CFM, port side exhaust airflow
Accessories
Hardware
N9K-C9364C-GX Nexus 9364C Spine and Leaf switch with 64p 100/40G QSFP28
Fan options
NXA-FAN-160CFM2PI Nexus Fan, Nexus 2000, 3000, 9000 Single Fan, 160CFM, port side intake airflow
NXA-FAN-160CFM2PE Nexus Fan, Nexus 2000, 3000, 9000 Single Fan, 160CFM, port side exhaust airflow
Accessories
Warranty
The Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switches have a 1-year limited hardware warranty. The warranty includes
hardware replacement with a 10-day turnaround from receipt of a Return Materials Authorization (RMA).
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● Cisco Data Center Quick Start Service for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches - This offering provides
consulting services that include technical advice and assistance to help deploy Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
Switches
● Cisco Data Center Accelerated Deployment Service for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches - This service
delivers planning, design, and implementation expertise to bring your project into production. The
service also provides recommended next steps, an architectural high-level design, and operation-
readiness guidelines to scale the implementation to your environment
● Cisco Migration Service for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches - This service helps you migrate from
Cisco Catalyst® 6000 Series Switches to Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches
● Cisco product support – Our support service is available globally 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for
Cisco software and hardware products and technologies associated with Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
Switches. Enhanced support options delivered by Cisco also include solution support for Cisco ACI,
Cisco SMARTnet™ Service, and Cisco Smart Net Total Care®* Service
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