Cisco Nexus 6001P DATA CENTER SWITCH

Performance
● Cisco Nexus 6001: Layer 2 and 3 hardware forwarding at 1.28 Tbps
● Support for up to 256,000 combined entries of MAC addresses and APR entries
● Low-latency of approximately 1 microsecond using cut-through forwarding for predictable, consistent traffic latency regardless of packet size, traffic pattern, or features enabled on 40 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
● 25-MB buffer per 3x 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP interfaces
● Line-rate traffic throughput on all ports

Interfaces
● Cisco Nexus 6001P: 48 fixed 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ and 4 fixed 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ports, with 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet FCoE support on all respective ports
● Cisco Nexus 6001T: 48 fixed 1/10 Gigabit BASE-T and 4 fixed 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ ports, with 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet FCoE support on all respective ports
● 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports can be converted to 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces through QSFP+breakout cable
● Fabric extension through the Cisco Nexus 2200

Layer 2 Features
● Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks
● IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation
● Support for up to 4000 VLANs
● Support for up to 4000 access control list (ACL) entries
● Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+) (IEEE 802.1w compatible)
● Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) (IEEE 802.1s): 64 instances
● Spanning Tree PortFast
● Spanning Tree root guard
● Spanning Tree Bridge Assurance
● Cisco EtherChannel technology (up to 16 ports per EtherChannel)
● Cisco vPC technology
● vPC configuration synchronization
● vPC Shutdown
● Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): IEEE 802.3ad
● Advanced PortChannel hashing based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information
● Jumbo frames on all ports (up to 9216 bytes)
● Pause frames (IEEE 802.3x)
● Storm control (unicast, multicast, and broadcast)
● Private VLANs
● Private VLAN over trunks (isolated and promiscuous)
● Private VLANs over vPC and EtherChannels
● VLAN remapping
● Cisco FabricPath
● EvPC and vPC+ with Cisco FabricPath
● Cisco Adapter FEX
● Cisco Data Center VM-FEX
● Support for up to 24 fabric extenders (Layer 2) with each switch

Layer 3 Features
● Layer 3 interfaces: Routed ports, switch virtual interface (SVI), PortChannels, subinterfaces, and PortChannel subinterfaces
● Support for up to 32,000 IPv4 and 8000 IPv6 host prefixes
● Support for up to 8000 multicast routes (IPv4)
● Support for up to 8000 IGMP snooping groups
● Support for 4000 Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) entries
● Support for up to 4096 VLANs
● Equal-Cost Multipathing (ECMP) up to 64 ways
● 4000 flexible ACL entries
● Routing protocols: Static, Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First Version 2 (OSPFv2), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS)
● IPv6 routing protocols: Static, OPFv3, BGPv6, and EIGRPv6
● IPv6 VRF-lite
● BFD support: OSPFv2, BGPv4, EIGRP, VRFs
● Policy Based Routing (IPv4 and IPv6)
● Hot-Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
● IPdirect Broadcast
● vPC+ Routing Protocol Peering
● ACL: Routed ACL with Layer 3 and 4 options to match ingress and egress ACL
● Multicast: Protocol Independent Multicast Version 2 (PIMv2) sparse mode, Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), Bidir-PIM, Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), IGMPv2 and v3, and Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)
● VRF: VRF-lite (IP VPN); VRF-aware unicast; and BGP-, OSPF-, RIP-, and VRF-aware multicast
● Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRFP) with ACL; strict and loose modes
● Jumbo frame support (up to 9216 bytes)
● Support for up to 24 fabric extenders on each Cisco Nexus 6001

Quality of Service (QoS)
● Layer 2 IEEE 802.1p (class of service [CoS])
● 8 unicast queues and 8 multicast queues per port
● Per-port QoS configuration
● CoS trust
● Port-based CoS assignment
● Modular QoS CLI (MQC) compliance: IPv4 and IPv6
● ACL-based QoS classification (Layers 2, 3, and 4)
● Flexible TCAM Carving
● MAC/ARP Hardware Carving
● MQC CoS marking
● Per-port virtual output queuing
● CoS-based egress queuing
● Egress strict-priority queuing
● Egress port-based scheduling: Weighted Round-Robin (WRR)
● Control Plan Policing (CoPP): IPv4 and IPv6

Security
● Ingress ACLs (standard and extended) on Ethernet and virtual Ethernet ports
● Standard and extended Layer 2 ACLs: MAC addresses, protocol type, etc.
● Standard and extended Layer 3 and 4 ACLs: IPv4 and IPv6, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP and ICMPv6), TCP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), etc.
● Ingress Policing
● VLAN-based ACLs (VACLs)
● Port-based ACLs (PACLs)
● Named ACLs
● Optimized ACL distribution
● ACLs on virtual terminals (VTYs)
● ACL logging (IPv4 only)
● Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) snooping with Option 82
● Dynamic Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Inspection
● IP source guard
● DHCP relay – up to 32 destinations
● Ethernet Port Security
● IPv6 RACL, PACL, and VACL
● iSCSI TLV

High-Availability Features
● ISSU for Layer 2
● Hot-swappable field-replaceable power supplies and fan modules
● N+1 and N+N power redundancy
● N:1 fan module redundancy
● N+1 fan module redundancy

Management
● Switch management using 10/100/1000-Mbps management or console ports
● CLI-based console to provide detailed out-of-band management
● In-band switch management
● Port-based locator and beacon LEDs
● Configuration synchronization
● Configuration rollback
● Secure Shell Version 2 (SSHv2)
● Telnet
● Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA)
● AAA with RBAC
● RADIUS
● TACACS+
● Syslog (8 servers)
● Embedded packet analyzer
● SNMPv1, v2, and v3 (IPv4 and IPv6)
● Enhanced SNMP MIB support
● XML (NETCONF) support
● Remote monitoring (RMON)
● Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for management traffic
● Unified username and passwords across CLI and SNMP
● Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (MS-CHAP)
● Digital certificates for management between switch and RADIUS server
● Cisco Discovery Protocol Versions 1 and 2
● RBAC
● SPAN on physical, PortChannel and VLAN
● ERSPAN
● Ingress and egress packet counters per interface
● Network Time Protocol (NTP)
● Cisco Generic Online Diagnostics (GOLD)
● Comprehensive bootup diagnostic tests
● Embedded Event Manager
● Cisco Call Home
● Cisco Smart Call Home
● Default Interface
● Cisco Fabric Manager
● Cisco DCNM
● CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS)

Data Center Bridging
● CEE- and IEEE-compliant priority flow control (PFC; per-priority Pause frame support)
● PFC link distance support: 300m
● CEE-compliant Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX) Protocol
● CEE- and IEEE-compliant enhanced transmission selection
FCoE Features (Require Storage Services License)
● T11 standards-compliant FCoE (FC-BB-5)
● T11 FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) (FC-BB-5)
● Any 10 or 40 Gigabit Ethernet port configurable as FCoE
● SAN administration separate from LAN administration
● Fibre Channel forwarding (FCF)
● Fibre Channel enhanced port types: VE, and VF
● Direct attachment of FCoE targets
● Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI)
● Fibre Channel ID (FCID) persistence
● Distributed device alias services
● In-order delivery
● Port tracking
● Cisco FCoE_NPV technology
● N-port identifier virtualization (NPIV)
● Fabric services: Name server, registered state change notification (RSCN), login services, and name-server zoning
● Per-VSAN fabric services
● Cisco Fabric Services
● Distributed device alias services
● Host-to-switch and switch-to-switch FC-SP authentication
● Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF)
● Standard zoning
● Enhanced zoning
● Cisco Fabric Analyzer
● Cisco Data Center Network Manager – SAN
● Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)
● Boot from SAN over vPC and Enhanced vPC (EvPC)
● FCP
● VSAN trunking
● Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI)
● Fibre Channel ID (FCID) persistence
● Distributed device alias services
● In-order delivery
● Port tracking
● Cisco NPV technology
● Fabric binding for Fibre Channel
● Port security
● Fibre Channel traceroute
● Fibre Channel ping
● Fibre Channel debugging

SNMP MIBs
Generic MIBs
● SNMPv2-SMI
● CISCO-SMI
● SNMPv2-TM
● SNMPv2-TC
● IANA-ADDRESS-FAMILY-NUMBERS-MIB
● IANAifType-MIB
● IANAiprouteprotocol-MIB
● HCNUM-TC
● CISCO-TC
● SNMPv2-MIB
● SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB
● SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB
● SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB
● SNMP-TARGET-MIB
● SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB
● SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB
● CISCO-SNMP-VACM-EXT-MIB

Layer 3 MIBs
● UDP-MIB
● TCP-MIB
● OSPF-MIB
● BGP4-MIB
● CISCO-HSRP-MIB

Ethernet MIBs
● CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB
● CISCO-Virtual-Interface-MIB
● CISCO-VTP-MIB

Configuration MIBs
● ENTITY-MIB
● IF-MIB
● CISCO-ENTITY-EXT-MIB
● CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB
● CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB
● CISCO-FLASH-MIB
● CISCO-SYSTEM-MIB
● CISCO-SYSTEM-EXT-MIB
● CISCO-IP-IF-MIB
● CISCO-IF-EXTENSION-MIB
● CISCO-SERVER-INTERFACE-MIB
● CISCO-NTP-MIB
● CISCO-IMAGE-MIB
● CISCO-IMAGE-CHECK-MIB
● CISCO-IMAGE-UPGRADE-MIB
● CISCO-CONFIG-COPY-MIB
● CISCO-ENTITY-VENDORTYPE-OID-MIB
● CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB

Monitoring MIBs
● DIFFSERV-DSCP-TC
● NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB
● DIFFSERV-MIB
● CISCO-CALLHOME-MIB
● CISCO-SYSLOG-EXT-MIB
● CISCO-PROCESS-MIB
● RMON-MIB
● CISCO-RMON-CONFIG-MIB
● CISCO-HC-ALARM-MIB
● LLDP-MIB

Security MIBs
● CISCO-AAA-SERVER-MIB
● CISCO-AAA-SERVER-EXT-MIB
● CISCO-COMMON-ROLES-MIB
● CISCO-COMMON-MGMT-MIB
● CISCO-RADIUS-MIB
● CISCO-SECURE-SHELL-MIB
● TCP/IP MIBs
● INET-ADDRESS-MIB
● TCP-MIB
● CISCO-TCP-MIB
● UDP-MIB
● IP-MIB
● CISCO-IP-PROTOCOL-FILTER-MIB
● CISCO-DNS-CLIENT-MIB
● CISCO-PORTSECURITY-MIB

Miscellaneous MIBs
● START-MIB
● CISCO-LICENSE-MGR-MIB
● CISCO-FEATURE-CONTROL-MIB
● CISCO-CDP-MIB
● CISCO-RF-MIB
● CISCO-ETHERNET-FABRIC-EXTENDER-MIB
● CISCO-BRIDGE-MIB
● CISCO-FCOE-MIB
● CISCO-PORTCHANNEL-MIB
● CISCO-ZS-MIB

Standards
Industry Standards
● IEEE 802.1D: Spanning Tree Protocol
● IEEE 802.1p: CoS prioritization
● IEEE 802.1Q: VLAN tagging
● IEEE 802.1Qaz: Enhanced transmission selection
● IEEE 802.1Qbb: Per-priority Pause
● IEEE 802.1s: Multiple VLAN instances of Spanning Tree Protocol
● IEEE 802.1w: Rapid reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol
● IEEE 802.3: Ethernet
● IEEE 802.3ad: LACP with fast timers
● IEEE 802.3ae: 10 Gigabit Ethernet
● SFF 8431 SFP+ CX1 support
● RMON

Typical operating power
750W

Maximum power
1100W

Input voltage
94 to 240 VAC

Frequency
47 to 63 Hz

Efficiency
94% (at 50% load)

RoHS compliance
Yes