Cisco Nexus 6004EF DATA CENTER Switch

(N6004-B-24Q)

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The Cisco Nexus 6004EF and 6004X are high-density, wire-rate, Layer 2 and Layer 3, 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) switches. They provide modular expansion slots for increased scalability, offering investment protection for future technologies. The switches deliver high scalability, operational efficiency, and design flexibility for traditional, virtualized, and cloud environments.

Product Specifications

Performance
●  Cisco Nexus 6004EF: Layer 2 and Layer 3 hardware forwarding at 7.68 terabits per second (Tbps)
●  Support for up to 256,000 MAC addresses
●  Low-latency of ~1 microsecond using cut-through forwarding for predictable, consistent traffic latency regardless of packet size, traffic pattern, or features enabled on 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
●  25-MB buffer per three 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP interfaces
●  Line-rate traffic throughput on all ports

Interfaces
●  Cisco Nexus 6004EF: Up to 96 40 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE ports through the use of 8 expansion modules
●  12-port 40 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE expansion module
●  20-port unified expansion module
●  10 Gigabit Ethernet interface through QSFP breakout cable
●  1 Gigabit Ethernet interface through a QSFP to SFP and SFP+ adapter (QSA)
●  Extension through the Cisco Nexus 2200 platform

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 ACLs
●  Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+; IEEE 802.1w compatible)
●  Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP; IEEE 802.1s) instances: 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 48 fabric extenders (Layer 2) with each Cisco Nexus 6004EF

Layer 3 Features
●  Layer 3 interfaces: Routed ports on Cisco Nexus 6004EF platform interfaces, switched 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 VRF entries
●  Support for up to 4096 VLANs
●  ECMP up to 64 ways
●  4000 flexible ACL entries
●  Routing protocols: Static, RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPFv2, 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, and VRF
●  vPC+ routing protocol peering
●  Policy-based routing (IPv4 and IPv6)
●  HSRP and VRRP
●  IP-directed broadcast
●  ACL: Routed ACL with Layer 3 and 4 options to match ingress and egress ACLs
●  Multicast: 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
●  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 6004EF
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 address and Address Resolution Protocol (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 address, protocol type, etc.
●  Standard and extended Layer 3 to 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 ARP Inspection
●  IP source guard
●  DHCP relay: Up to 32 destinations
●  Ethernet port security
●  IPv6 router ACL (RACL), PACL, and VACL
●  iSCSI type-length-value (TLV) element

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

Management
●  Switch management using 10-, 100-, and 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
●  Module preprovisioning
●  Configuration rollback
●  Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol 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
●  Cisco Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
●  Cisco Call Home feature
●  Cisco Smart Call Home feature
●  Default interface
●  Cisco Fabric Manager
●  Cisco Prime DCNM
●  CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS)

Data Center Bridging
●  CEE-and IEEE-compliant policy feature card (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 (ETS)

FCoE Features (Requires 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, TE, 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
●  Diffie-Hellman Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (DH-CHAP) and Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP)
●  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 Prime DCNM: SAN
●  Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)
●  Boot from SAN over vPC and EvPC
●  FCP
●  VSAN trunking
●  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

Typical operating power
2800W

Maximum power
3300W

Input voltage
94 to 240 VAC

Frequency
47 to 63 Hz

Efficiency
98% (50 to 100% load)

RoHS compliance
Yes

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