Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Hardware Installation Guide, Cisco NX-OS Release 4.1 (OL-15902-01, July 2009)

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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Product Overview
Nexus 5010 Switch
SFP Fiber Channel Transceivers
The Cisco Nexus 5020 switch also supports the following SFP Fibre Channel transceiver:
Nexus 5010 Switch
This section describes the Cisco Nexus 5010 switch and its components. This section includes the
following topics:
• Features, page 1-15
• Chassis, page 1-16
• Ports, page 1-22
• Expansion Modules, page 1-19
• Power Supply, page 1-24
• Fan Module, page 1-25
• LED Descriptions, page 1-26
• Supported SFP Transceivers, page 1-27
Features
The Cisco Nexus 5010 switch is a 1RU, top-of-rack switch that provides Ethernet and Fibre Channel
consolidation in a single physical cable. The Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocol is used to
consolidate Ethernet and Fibre Channel traffic onto the same physical connection between the server and
the switch. As a top-of-rack switch, all the servers in the rack connect to the Cisco Nexus 5010 switch,
and it connects to the LAN or SAN.
The Cisco Nexus 5010 switch is a part of a family of switches that provide 10-Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE
ports and both 10-Gigabit Ethernet and native 1-, 2-, and 4-Gbps Fibre Channel ports. The switches
provide consolidated I/O connectivity to both production Ethernet LANs and Fibre Channel SANs in a
cost-effective, high-performance, low-latency Ethernet switch.
The Cisco Nexus 5010 switch has the following features:
• One slot on the back of the switch for an optional uplink Gatos Expansion Module [GEM]. There
are several modules which can be accommodated in this slot. Three such modules are N5K-M1404,
N5K-M1600 and N5K-M1008.
SFP-H10GB-CU3M 10GBASE-CU SFP+ Cable 3 Meter
SFP-H10GB-CU5M 10GBASE-CU SFP+ Cable 5 Meter
Model Description
Model Description
DS-SFP-FC4G-SW 4-Gbps/2-Gbps/1-Gbps Fibre Channel—short
wavelength SFP module