Cisco Systems N7K-SUP1

The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches comprise a modular data center-class product line designed for highly scalable 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks with a fabric architecture that scales beyond 15 terabits per second (Tbps). Designed to meet the requirements of the most mission-critical data centers, it delivers continuous system operation and virtualized, pervasive services. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is based on a proven operating system, with enhanced features to deliver real-time system upgrades with exceptional manageability and serviceability. Its innovative design is purpose built to support end-to-end data center connectivity, consolidating IP, storage, and interprocess communication (IPC) networks onto a single Ethernet fabric.
The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor Module is designed to deliver scalable control plane and management functions for the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series chassis. It is based on a dual core processor that scales the control plane by harnessing the flexibility and power of the dual cores. The supervisors control the Layer 2 and 3 services, redundancy capabilities, configuration management, status monitoring, power and environmental management, and more. It provides centralized arbitration to the system fabric for all line cards. The fully distributed forwarding architecture allows the supervisor to support transparent upgrades to higher forwarding capacity-capable I/O and fabric modules. The supervisor incorporates an innovative dedicated connectivity management processor (CMP) to support remote management and troubleshooting of the complete system. Two supervisors are required for a fully redundant system, with one supervisor module running as the active device and the other in hot standby mode, providing exceptional high-availability features in data center-class products.

• High availability
• Resilient dedicated connectivity to each fabric and I/O module slot
• Centralized arbiter
• Virtual output queuing
• Secure Cisco Media Access Control Security (IEEE 802.1AE) enabled management port
• Embedded packet analyzer
• Front-panel LEDs
• Identification (ID) LED
• USB ports
• Log and expansion flash memory
• Compact flash memory slot cover
• Dedicated operating environment
• Monitoring of supervisor status and initiation of resets
• System reset while retaining out-of-band Ethernet connectivity
• Capability to view boot-time messages remotely
• Capability to initiate a complete system power shutdown and restart
• Login authentication
• Access to supervisor logs
• Capability to take full console control of the supervisor
• Dedicated front-panel LEDs