The Cisco Nexus 9500 Cloud Scale platform supports the following fabric modules: The switch continues to operate even in the event of a loss of a fabric module, albeit at a lower capacity, as the remaining fabric modules continue to provide switching capacity to the line cards. This load-balancing capability provides enhanced system reliability and redundancy. All traffic between the line cards is load balanced across all fabric modules, providing optimal bandwidth distribution within the chassis. The Cisco Nexus 9500 platform is designed as a Clos fabric that interconnects each line card directly with each rear-mounted fabric module. Any features or capabilities that require more than four fabric modules will be automatically disabled in such a configuration.Ĭisco Nexus 9500 cloud-scale platform fabric modules and performance In such a configuration, the chassis supports a maximum of four fabric modules and any additional fabric modules installed will be powered down. Select EX, FX, and GX line cards can be installed together in the same Cisco Nexus 9500 chassis. # To achieve N+1 fabric module redundancy with 5 fabric modules and X9732C-FX cards, the line cards in the chassis must only be the X9732C-FX cards. The latest Cisco ® 400-Gigabit cloud-scale ASICs also support Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) and enhanced streaming telemetry capabilities. These ASICs not only support foundational L2/元 networking capabilities but also support enhanced capabilities such as policy-based fabric architectures (ACI or VXLAN), smart buffering, integrated line rate security, and real-time streaming telemetry over multispeed Ethernet ports. The Cisco clouds-scale ASICs provide enhanced performance and features that are required to meet the evolving needs of the world’s largest cloud-scale data centers. These cloud-scale line cards and fabric modules, built using Cisco ® cloud-scale ASICs, provide the ideal foundation for large scalable data centers.
The Cisco Nexus 9500 platform supports a rich selection of hot-swappable multispeed cloud-scale line cards and fabric modules optimized for data-center deployments.
Please refer to Cisco ACI or Cisco NX-OS software release notes and appropriate feature documentation for more details.Ĭisco Nexus 9500 platform cloud-scale line cards Note: This data sheet specifies hardware capabilities only.
Using these cloud-scale line cards the Cisco Nexus 9500 Series switches can be configured with up to.
A cloud scale line card provides up to 6.4 Terabits per second (Tbps) per slot and each cloud scale fabric module provides up to 1.6 Tbps to each line card slot. The Cisco Nexus 9500 Series modular switches support a comprehensive selection of cloud-scale line cards and fabric modules that provide 1-, 10-, 25-, 40-, 50-, 100-, 200-, and 400-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Cloud-Scale Switch Chassis