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