Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration Guide (OL-16597-01, July 2009)

Table 102: Fibre Channel Environments
LimitParameter
8,000Device Aliases per fabric
50
6
Switches per physical fabric or VSAN
40
7
Domains per VSAN
16—Requires two N5K-M1008 expansion modules.Native FC Links per switch
255FLOGIs or FDISCs per NPV port group
32Zones per virtual or physical F port (includes all
VSANs)
500
8
Zone sets per switch (includes all VSANs)
8,000
9
Zone members per physical fabric (includes all
VSANs)
8,000Zones per switch (includes all VSANs)
3 hops
10
Maximum diameter of a SAN Fabric
512
11
FSPF interface instances per switch
256
12
ISL instances per switch
160
13
Virtual Fibre Channel interfaces
2,048Max FCIDs allocated
32Fibre Channel Flows
6
The switch is capable of supporting up to 239 switches per fabric but this is not currently implemented.
7
The switch is capable of supporting up to 239 domains per VSAN but the scale is not currently implemented.
8
The switch is capable of 1000 Zone Sets but this is not currently implemented.
9
The switch is capable of supporting up to 20,000 zone members per fabric but the scale is not currently implemented.
10
The switch is capable of supporting up to 12 hops but the scale is not currently implemented.
11
The switch is capable of supporting 4096 (the number of Extended ISLs (16) times the number of VSANs (256)) but the scale is not currently implemented.
12
Each ISL instance can support up to 32 VSAN instances.
13
The switch is capable of supporting 480 virtual Fibre Channel interfaces but the scale is not currently implemented.
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Appendix
Configuration Limits