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Table 11. Feature Support for Cisco Nexus 2000 Series
Description Specification
Layer 2 features
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Layer 2 VLAN trunks
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IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation
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Cisco EtherChannel technology on uplinks
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PortChannel on server ports on Cisco Nexus 2200 platforms
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Advanced PortChannel hashing
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Jumbo Frames on all ports (up to 9216 bytes)
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Pause frames (priority flow control [PFC] and IEEE 802.3x)
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Private VLANs (promiscuous only on uplinks)
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Local multicast replication on Cisco Nexus 2200 platform (8000 entries)
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Autonegotiation to 1000BASE-T; full duplex on host interfaces
Enhanced Ethernet
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DCB (Cisco Nexus 2232PP)
Quality of service (QoS)
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Layer 2 IEEE 802.1p (class of service [CoS])
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Eight hardware queues per port (Cisco Nexus 2200 platforms), or four hardware queues per port (Cisco Nexus
2148T)
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Per-port QoS configuration
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Local policing on Cisco Nexus 2200 platform (64 policers)
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CoS trust
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Configurable tail-drop threshold on Cisco Nexus 2200 platforms
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Egress strict-priority queuing
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Egress port-based scheduling: Weighted Round Robin (WRR)
High availability
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Hot-swappable field-replaceable power supplies and fan modules
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1:1 power redundancy
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Uplink traffic management through Cisco EtherChannel hashing or static port pinning
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vPCs for dual-homed active-active connectivity across two Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches
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vPCs for dual-homed straight-through NIC connectivity across two Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders
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ISSU
Security
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Local classification (256 access-control-list [ACL] entries)
Management
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Fabric extender management using in-band management
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Locator and beacon LEDs on front and back of chassis (locator beacons on the front and rear of the chassis
help reduce errors when the equipment is serviced)
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Per-port locator and beacon LEDs
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Syslog
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Simple Network Management Protocol Versions 1, 2, and 3 (SNMP v1, v2, and v3)
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Enhanced SNMP MIB support
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XML (NETCONF) support
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Remote Monitoring (RMON)
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Cisco Discovery Protocol Versions 1 and 2
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Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) source on server ports
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Power-on self-test (POST)
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Cisco Generic Online Diagnostics (GOLD): Ethernet
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Comprehensive bootup diagnostic tests
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CiscoWorks
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Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM); the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series is managed through the parent
Cisco Nexus Series Switch using Cisco DCNM and standard SNMP, XML interfaces, and command-line
interface (CLI)
Configuration MIBs
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ENTITY-MIB
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IF-MIB
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FABRIC-EXTENDER MIB
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CISCO-ENTITY-EXT-MIB
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CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB
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CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB
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CISCO-ETHERNET-FABRIC-EXTENDER-MIB
Monitoring MIBs
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RMON-MIB