Cisco Nexus 5596 Ports Issue

[Syed Farhan Ali]

Dear Fellows,

My customer is asking for a nexus switch which should have the following configuration:

48x 10GT Ports

48x 10G SFP+ Ports

Initially I recommended them Cisco Nexus 5672UP but then I found out that it has no 10GT Ports.

I then looked for Cisco 5596T/5596UP but I am confused if the 10G Ports are 10GT or 10G SFP+

Can you please advise on this?

Regards,

Farhan.

[Prabath Godevithanage]

Hi Farhan,

check here you'll find the information you need.make sure to read the full datasheet or perhaps contact the product support not like other product lines I've seen some caveats around them.also don't forget to purchase the right fans for them.

5596T has 32 fixed 10GBASE-T and 16 fixed SFP+ slots and then you'd have the option to use expansion modules

5596UP has 48 SFP/SFP+ slots, you need transceivers for them.then it also has 3 expansion modules same as the other.

Cheers,

Prabath

[Syed Farhan Ali]

Thanks Prabath.

Looking at the information in Installation Guide, I found out that Switch has the following:

• 32x 10GT Ports
• 16x 10G SFP+ Ports (Can these be used as 10GT Ports? For e.g. If I connect the switch with a server through a Copper CAT6/CAT 7 cable without using a transceiver?)
• N55-M12T: Nexus 5500 Module 12p 10GT

So in total I can use 44x 10GT Copper Ports and 28x Fiber SFP+ Ports? After that I have one expansion module left

Can anyone confirm me on that?

Regards,

Farhan.

[Reza Sharifi]

Are you trying to get 48 port 10G copper and 48 10G fiber in the same chassis or 2 different ones?

[Syed Farhan Ali]

I need all of these ports on the same chassis but if any option is niy available , I can go with different chassis. Please suggest all the possible options.

[Prabath Godevithanage]

Hi Farhan,

• 16x 10G SFP+ Ports (Can these be used as 10GT Ports? For e.g. If I connect the switch with a server through a Copper CAT6/CAT 7 cable without using a transceiver?

           NO,You need transceivers for those slots

As far as I can see below is the closest you can get with 5596T,you still end up with 44 copper ports only. you can compromise few SFP ports and convert them with 1G copper transceivers,or use a fabric extenders would be an option.It'll be whole lot simpler if you can offer two switches 

make sure to have it check with Cisco Sales and get it validated.from my past experience there some caveats around them

• N5K-C5596T-FA (Gives you 32 Copper+ 16 SFP)
• N55-M12T(=) (Gives you 12 copper - for you to verify with cisco that this can be used as standard ethernet conjunction with the existing 32 ,doc says yes but I would have it verified)
• N55-M16UP(=) X 2 (gives you additional 32 SFP ports)

You going to end up with fully populated L2 Switch,look into right fans modules and licenses

Alternatives are going for a bigger modular chassis from the DC range like 9504 or similar or consider fabric extenders instead of fixed port switches.

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Good luck

[deepinder@yamamait.com]

Cisco configuration allows only 1 card from  N55-M16UP

how can we configure 2 cards? 

we need total 96 ports 

and please specify how many ports we need to put with DAC cables