The document provides information about the Cisco Nexus 7009 switch, including: - It is a modular network switch with up to 9 slots that can support 336 10GbE or 1GbE ports. - It uses up to 5 Crossbar Fabric Modules and 2 power supplies. - The Nexus 7009 specifications section provides additional details about its hardware capabilities and supported interface speeds.

1. Cisco Nexus 7009 switch
Eng.Hamza Al-Qudah
9-10-2012
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2. Agenda
 Day 1 :
 Introducing Cisco Nexus Family
 The Nexus switches family range
 Nexus VS 65XX
 The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
 Nexus 7000 Hw specifications
 Nexus 7009 specifications
 Day 2 :
 XOS vs IOS
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3. Introducing Cisco Nexus Family:
 Nexus is a modular network switch introduced on
January 28, 2008
 Designed for the data center (optimized for high-
density 10 Gigabit Ethernet.)
 Its throughput is beyond 15 Tbps.
 It has a modular NX-OS firmware/operating system
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4. The Nexus switches family range:
- Nexus 1000v virtual switch
- Nexus 2000 fabric extender
- Nexus 3000 series
- Nexus 4000 IBM Blade Center switch
- Nexus 5000 series
- Nexus 7000 series modular datacenter switches
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5. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
 The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was designed around
three principles:
1- Infrastructure scalability: Virtualization, efficient
power and cooling, high density, and performance
all support efficient data center infrastructure
growth.
2-Operational continuity: The Cisco Nexus design
integrates hardware, NX-OS software features, and
management to support zero-downtime
environments.
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6. 3-Transport flexibility: You can incrementally and
cost-effectively adopt new networking innovations
and technologies, such as:
Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV)
Cisco FabricPath
Fibrer Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Cisco IOS Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
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7. Over 1513 Patents Over $1B in Overall Data
Pending/Issued on Data Center Research
Center Technologies Transport and Development
Flexibility
Cisco® Nexus Cisco Nexus Consists
Delivers a Unified of Multiple Products
Fabric and I/O for Cisco with a Data Center
the DC Nexus Class OS
Operational Infrastructure
Continuity Scalability
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8. Nexus VS 65XX :
- Virtual port channel (VPC) : VPC is similar to VSS of the
65K's.
- Virtual device context (VDC) :
With VDC you virtually divide your switch up to 4
different virtual switches and allocate hardware resources
to them
- 65K's can perform all the functions... Nexus still doesn't
support service modules like FWSM, load balancers etc...
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9. Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV):
- It makes multiple DC as one Dc.
- The NX7k switch has MAC add table for each NX7k switch
- The MAC add tables are automatically shared
- It stops spanning tree protocol
- In multicast : Just one copy sent to the core
Cisco FabricPath :
- Combines the simplicity of L2 domain with scalability of L3
domain , Creates (L2 routing tables)
- No blocking , send through all links, down link will be excluded.
- Shortest path will be used
- Add fabricpath Switch destination header
- Add server any where in the dc
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10. Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) :
- Allow the server to connect to the San and the LAN through one
link
Hitless software upgrade by :
- In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU)
Cisco Data Center Network Manager:
- Management tool
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11. Nexus 7000 Hw specifications :
- Delivers high-density 10, 40, and 100 Gigabit
Ethernet
- provide parallel fabric channels to each I/O and
supervisor module slot
- Up to five simultaneously active fabric modules
work together delivering up to 230 Gbps per slot
46 Gbps per slot per fabric ( 46*5 fabric = 230 Gbps
per slot )
- 46 is for fabric 1 , in fabric 2 its 110 per slot
- With 550G per slot, scales to more than 17 Tbps
switching capacity
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12. Catalyst and Nexus:
Complementary Focus for Broad Deployments
Cisco® Nexus 7000
15 Terabit Scalability
100GbE
Unified Fabric
40GbE
Transport Flexibility
Operational Continuity
Cisco Catalyst® 6500
10GbE
2 Terabit Scalability
1GbE Unified Network Access
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13. New Nexus 7000 Supervisor Engines :
- Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor 2 and 2E
Modules deliver increased control plane
performance and system scalability
- Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor 2 has twice
the CPU performance of the Supervisor 1 Module
- Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor 2E
performance is Four times the CPU performance of
the Supervisor 1 Module
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14. Nexus 7000 series :
 Nexus 7000 chassis now includes 9, 10 and 18 slot
chassis
 New Innovation Cisco Nexus 7004 Chassis
 As with the Nexus 5000 series the Nexus 2000
Fabric Extenders can act as a remote line card on
the 7000 series.
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15. Extending the Cisco Nexus Family
Data Center Class Switches
Continuity
Operational
 Simpler More Stable Layer 2 Network
 Highly Available Platform
 Preserves operational best practices
Flexibility
Transport
 FCoE based Unified Fabric
 Virtualization Optimized Networking
 Support for GE, FCoE, DCE, and FC
Scalability
Infrastructure
 Reduces power, cooling, cabling
 Up to 52 non-blocking 10GbE
 Up to 1.2 Tbps capacity
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16. Nexus 7009 :
 9 slots: 3-9 are line card slots, 1-2 are supervisor
slots
 Supports 336 10Gbit/s and/or 1Gbit/s
 Air flow is side to side (right to left)
 Up to 5 Crossbar Fabric Modules
 Up to 2 power supplies
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17. Day 2:
IOS VS XOS
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18. NX-OS :
- NX-OS two images kickstart image and system
image.
- Not all the features are enabled by default... for
example if you want to use OSPF... you firstly have
to enable the feature. ... (feature ospf)
- All the features are licensed... This is not very bad...
considering that an enterprise licenses gets almost
all of your features running.
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19.  You don't have to prefix "do" in front of your "privilege
level show commands" if you are in configuration
mode
 The routing protocol configuration is more on the
interface level like in IPV6... ipv6 enable
 NX-OS CANNOT NAT"; no NAT command on NX-OS...
unusual as it is one of the common L3 feature on any
cisco device.
 No F and GE in the commands … all are Ethernet
 There aren't any speed designations in the interface name.
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20.  no "write" command you have to use the big old
"copy run start“
 The " sh tech-support" gives you never ending
data... its HUGE MB's of data
 Supports VTP only in transparent mode
 - Doesn't support PAGP supports only LACP
 - It doesn't support EIGRP unicast neighborship...
 The "sh run" has a lot of minor components which
makes it easier to look at the configuration... like
"sh run rpm"(route processor module) : gives you
all the route policy config like route-maps and
prefix lists
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21. sh module :
N7K-ABCDEF-GH
 A : F (forwarding engine) or M (Multi purpose
forwarding engine )
 B : Model of forwarding engine : 1 or 2
 C & D : Number of ports
 E : Speed : X (10 gig ) or G (1 gig)
 F : Connector Type : P (sfp+) or T ( RJ )
 G : Generation of fabric : 1 ( 1’st ) or 2 (2 nd)
 H : Number of channels of 40 gig : 1 (40 gig) or 2
(80 gig)
 show module xbar : to show switch fabric
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22. Day 3:
Continue IOS VS XOS
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23.  Base services: The default license that ships with
NX-OS covers Layer 2 protocols including such
features such as Spanning Tree, virtual LANs
(VLAN), Private VLANS, and Unidirectional Link
Detection (UDLD).
 Enterprise Services Package: Provides Layer 3
protocols such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF),
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Intermediate
System-to-Intermediate System (ISIS), Enhanced
Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Policy-
Based Routing (PBR), Protocol Independent
Multicast (PIM), and Generic Routing Encapsulation
(GRE).
 Advanced Services Package: Provides Virtual
Device Contexts (VDC)
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24.  license file is obtained from Cisco.com and copied
to flash, install it on the chassis.
 Show license host-id :host-id for License File
Creation on Cisco.com (serial number)
 Install license bootflash:license_file.lic
 NX-OS offers feature testing for a 120-day grace
period ...fully operate a feature without the need for
a license to be purchased
 The last 6 days it will start send notifications
 #()license grace-period
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25.  NX-OS has a setup utility that enables a user to
specify the system defaults, perform basic
configuration, and apply a predefined Control Plane
Policing (CoPP) security policy.
 Two preconfigured instances of VPN Routing
Forwarding (VRF) by default (management, default).
 By default, all Layer 3 interfaces and routing
protocols exist in the default VRF.
 The mgmt0 interface exists in the management VRF
and is accessible from any VDC.
 Each VDC has a unique IP address for the mgmt0
interface.
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26.  Default login administrator user is admin; a
password has to be specified when the system is
first powered up.
 you cannot disable the username and password
login.
 The default Spanning Tree mode in NX-OS is Rapid-
PVST+.
 When u disable a feature all relevant commands are
removed from the running configuration.
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27.  Show environment power :
power requested in the max appear cisco power
calc
 Telnet is disabled by def , ssh is enabled
 Sh vrf :
 vrf managment : def route
 vrf context managment ip route 0.0.0.0 /0 gw
 int mgmt 0 ip add /24 def in mgmt vrf dedicated for
it
 Sh vrf managment int
 Int ethe x/x :
vrf member managmenet ...refused
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28.  ping gw ..no u have to determine vrf
 sh run | grep -a 3 –n mgmt 0 :
 rollbased access control : rback
 sh role : admin : read write operator : read
 sh role feature-group
 feature group ...ex pre def l3 feature group
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29.  role name ...
 rule 1 permit read
 rule 2 permit read-write feature cdp
 rule 3 permit command ping *
 rule 4 permit command config t : interface *
 interface policy deny
permit interface eth 2/1
 sh role name ....
 user ... pass ... role ....
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30.  ? the available commands will be limited
 debug ? only cdp ( write allowd for cdp only)
 ? In config mode :cdp or interface ( interface only
eth 2/1 )
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31.  rollback :
 checkpoint .... ( up to 10)
 sh checkpoint summary
 sh checkpoint ... : the config of checkpoint
 rollback running-config checkpoint ...
 config s (session) : till now just for acl
 To check the resource availability for a certain
feature
 config s ...
 verify
 show config session
 Commit , abort
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32.  -if : ip ospf hello-interval 2
 ip ospf network point-to-point
 ip router ospf 1 area 0 : activate osfp in interface
 statefull process restart : l2 process and ospf :
safe the processes
 int .. : sh no sh
 load bootflash:dd.plgin
 (linux) kill 6255 sh process | inc ospf
 int e2/1, 2/2-4
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33.  netflow :
 feature nerflow
 flow record ....
 match ipv4 dest add
 matc ipv4 souse add
 match ip protocol
 collect transport tcp flags ( collect is the info need
to be exported)
 collect routing forwarding-status
 flow exporter ....
 description ....
 destination x.x.x.x vrf
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34.  source loobback 0
 transport udp port 12345
 version 5
 Now apply netflow for interface by config flow
monitor with connect exporter with recored
 flow monitor ...
record ....
exporter ... up to 2 diff export per monitor
 sh run config netflow
 int .. : ip flow monitor ... input (igress)
 sh sys internal flow
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35.  Ethenizer for wire shark
 Ethanalyzer local interface (mgmt or input ) brief
limit-captured-frame 5 write bootflash:cap1
 Its for control plane traffic
 Data plane traffic captured by netflow or span
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36.  vdc :
 sh vdc
 n7k : def
 sh vdc membership :( interfaces )
 vdc ... create vdc
 allocate interface x : config will be lost
 ha-policy (dual-sup (bring-down or restart or
switchover)
 single sup) bring-down or restart or reload :
reload : the sup restart : restart the vdc
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37.  limit resources vrf min x max y
 limit resources vlan min x max y
 limit resources port-channel min0 max 0
 sh vdc ... detail
 sh vdc ... membership
 sh vdc ...resources
 switch to vdc ...
 password : create one
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38. The End
Hamza Al-Qudah
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