Cisco WS-C3550-12G Switch Guide - Page 92

Modular Switches: Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Features Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor Modules • The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor Modules deliver a comprehensive set of features to address the needs of the most demanding data center deployments: • Continuous system operation −− Active and standby supervisors −− Segmented and redundant out-of-band provisioning and management paths −− Virtualization of the management plane −− Integrated diagnostics and protocol decoding with an embedded control-plane packet analyzer • Upgradeable architecture −− No hardware or software forwarding −− Independent supervisor and fabric modules in a distributed architecture, enabling independent upgrades of supervisor and fabric modules −− Transparent upgrade capacity and capability; designed to support high-density 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet • Superior operating efficiency −− System locator and beacon LEDs for simplified operations −− On-board failure logging (OBFL) flash memory • Control-plane and virtualization features such as: −− Virtual device contexts (VDCs) −− Fabric extender control plane −− Cisco® Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) control plane −− Layer 3 protocol learning −− Spanning Tree Protocol processing −− Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) processing for multicast Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor 2E Module With 2 Quad-Core processors, the Sup2E delivers the highest feature scalability and faster control plane and management processing making it ideal for medium to large data center and campus core deployments. In addition it provides • Increased scalability for features such as VDC, FEX, VRF • FCoE support for F2 Modules • CPU Shares to allocate and guarantee CPU for highest priority VDCs Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor 2 Module With a Quad-Core processor, the Sup2 delivers scalable and faster control plane and management processing making it ideal for small to medium sized data center and campus core deployments. In addition it provides • FCoE support for F2 Modules • CPU Shares to allocate and guarantee CPU for highest priority VDCs Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor 1 Module With one dual-core processor, the Sup1 delivers scalable control plane and management functions ideal for small data center and campus core deployments 90