Feature And Basic Information Of Cisco Nexus 3064-X Series Switches

The high-performance, high-density Ethernet switches of the Cisco Nexus 3064 X, 3064T, and 306432T series are part of the switch families. The small 1U 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches offer a cable speed with Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches. They support forward and reverse air circuits for AC and DC input. Cisco Nexus 3064 switches are suitable for data centers that require cost-effective and energy-efficient Layer 2 and Layer 3 (ToR) switches.

There are three Cisco Nexus 3064 switches available:

• Cisco Nexus 3064-X (Figure 1): This 10 Gbps Pluggable Enhanced Small Form Factor (SFP +) Top-of-Rack Switch has 48 SFP + ports and 4 Quad SFP + (QSFP +) ports. The SFP + port can be operated in a mode of 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, or 10 Gbps, each QSFP + port may be operated in a native mode of 40 or 4 x 10 Gbps. This switch is a real, non-physical, low latency, and low power consumption switch.
• Cisco Nexus 3064T (Figure 2): It features 48 ports and 4 QSFP + ports, and is available with 10gbase  RJ45. This switch is perfect for clients that need to utilize existing copper connections from 1 GBit/s to 10 GBit/s.
• Cisco Nexus 306432T (Figure 3): This is a 32 enabled 10GBASET and 4 QSFP+ ports Cisco Nexus 3064T switch. The software license is active for the port. This switch gives clients with a need for up to 32 10GBASET ports per rack an affordable alternative. The switch has been previously added with a 3210GBASET port license. Customers must install an upgrade license of 16 ports to enable the remaining 16 10GBASET ports. If you need more ports and more features, you can see the most powerful Cisco Nexus 5000 Series. Because The Cisco Nexus 5000 platform offers broad connectivity support, low latency, and Extensible Virtual LAN (VXLAN) technology.

The key benefits of the Cisco Nexus 3064 switches are:

Wire-speed layer 2 and 3 switchings on all ports

• At rates up to 1.2 terabytes per second (Tbit/s) and more than 950 Mpp (Mbit/s) in small 1 U form size, Cisco Nexus 3063 switches deliver layer 2 and 3 switches.
• Ultra-low latency
• Cisco Nexus 3064 switches have exceptionally low latency, which enables companies to deploy a high-performance HFT system.

Designed particularly with extensive and demonstrated advancements for the Cisco NX-OS operating system

• Layer 2 multipathing is provided by virtual port-channel (vPC) by removing the tree protocol spanner and allowing the complete use of the bisectional bandwidth and simpler logical layer 2 topologies without changing existing deployment/management methods.
• Power-On Auto supply enables contactless switches to be started and set up, which significantly decreases delivery time.
• The Event Manager and Python scripts provide remote and data center automation.
• Effective buffer tracking reports allow companies to monitor traffic explosions and patterns of application traffic using buffer ports and queues in real-time.
• Layer 3 fat tree designs Equal Multipath Cost Routing (ECMP) allows companies to avoid network bottlenecks, enhance resilience and expand capacity with minimum interruption of the network.
• It is built on the renowns Wireshark network protocol analyzer, an integrated packet analyzer that traffic controls aircraft to monitor and debug.
•  Precision Time Protocol (PTP) offers precise synchronization of the clock with network traps and system events.
• Full Layer 3 Unicast and Multicast Protocol Suites are supported, including the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Sparse Mode Independent Multicast Protocol (PIM-SM) Source-Specific Multicast Protocol (SSM), Superior Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), and Superior Intellectual Protection Protocols (RIPv2) (MSDP).

Traffic monitoring for Cisco Nexus Data Broker

• Creating simple, scalable, and cost-effective network links or aggressive network traffic monitoring and analyzing Cisco Switched Port Analyzer.

Setting

Nexus Cisco 3064-X

• 48 fixed 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP + ports (can operate at speeds of 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, and 10 Gbps)
• Four fixed QSFP + ports (each QSFP + port can support 4 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 40 Gigabit Ethernet)
  

Cisco Nexus 3064-T

• 48 fixed 10GBASE-T ports (can operate at speeds of 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, and 10 Gbps)
• Four fixed QSFP + ports (each QSFP + port can support 4 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 40 Gigabit Ethernet)

Cisco Nexus 3064-32T

• 32 fixed 10GBASE-T ports (can operate at speeds of 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, and 10 Gbps)
• Four fixed QSFP + ports (each QSFP + port can support 4 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 40 Gigabit Ethernet)
• Upgrade to 48 fixed 10GBASE-T and 4 QSFP + ports by installing a 16-port upgrade license
• Location LED
• Dual redundant power supplies1
• Fan tray with redundant fans
• One USB port
• A serial console port for RS-232
• Two 10/100/1000 Mbps management ports
• Locate button LED

Support is available for forwarding (port outlet) and reverses (port inlet) airflow schemes.

Options for cable and transceiver

The Cisco Nexus 3000 Series switches also offer a wide range of connection choices of 1, 10, and 40 Gigabit. There are 1 and 10 gigabit Ethernet ports available in the first 48 and 40 gigabit Ethernet ports using QSFP+ transceivers available in the last 4 ports.

The QSFP+ technology ensures a smooth transition from 10 Gigabit to 40 Gigabit for Ethernet infrastructure. Cisco Nexus 3063 switches provide high physical layer flexibility and allow connection through copper and fiber lines. Copper-based 40 Gbps Twinax cables are utilizing for low-cost cabling, while short optical transceivers are suitable for longer cable runs.

Connectivity from the QSFP ports to an upstream 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch creates using a splitter cable that has a QSFP on one end and four SFP+ on the other. By buying fiber splitters from a third party, similar features obtain using optical transceivers. 

The Cisco Nexus 3064-X is a revolutionary solution that blends Twinax transceivers into an economical, low-cost, energy-efficient solution for rack or neighboring rack cabling. Single and multi-mode SFP + optical transceivers support for longer cable lengths.

Cisco data center network administrator

Compatible with the Cisco DCNM is the Cisco Nexus 3064. It creates for Cisco NX-OS hardware platforms. Cisco DCNM is a Cisco management solution that enhances the functionality, stability, and continuous business of the whole data center infrastructure. Moreover, Cisco DCNM provides a strong and comprehensive architecture that can satisfy the routing, switching, and storage management demands of existing and future data centers, intending to address the network management needs of data centers. So, It automates the supply process, monitors LAN proactively to degrade performance, safeguards the grid, and simplifies the diagnose of problematic network parts.

Cisco nexus data agent

Cisco NEXUS 3064 switches combine with Cisco NEXUS Data Broker to provide an economical and scalable SPAN. It also taps traffic surveillance architecture. This technique substitutes classic matrix switches particularly built with one or more Cisco Nexus switches that are Open Flow enable. 

So, These switches connect to form an infrastructure for scalable bypass or SPAN aggregation. The Tap and SPAN sources can couple to give this SPAN or tap aggregate infrastructure with a copy of the production traffic. These instruments and sources may also be used by several CISCO Nexus switches to monitor and analyze traffic.