Cisco Nexus 6004 Extensible Fixed Switch Data Sheet

Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches Product Overview

Cisco Nexus^® 6000 Series Switches are part of the Cisco^® Unified Fabric solution. They run the industry-leading Cisco NX-OS Software operating system and are designed to create flexible, scalable network architecture for virtualized and cloud environments.

Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches deliver high-density 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity in an energy-efficient, compact form factor. Easily scale your architecture to support growing bandwidth demands without sacrificing energy efficiency or rack space. A robust integrated Layer 2 and Layer 3 feature set gives you a versatile platform that you can deploy in environments such as:

●   Direct-attach 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet access-layer deployments

●   High-density Cisco fabric extender aggregation-layer deployments

●   Leaf-and-spine architecture deployments

●   Compact aggregation-layer deployments

All Cisco Nexus 6000 Series products use the same set of Cisco application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and a single software image. Feature and operation consistency simplify management, while advanced analytics, Power-on autoprovisioning (POAP), and Python and Tool Command Language (Tcl) script increase programmability and efficiency. Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches also support Cisco Nexus 2200 platform fabric extenders, Cisco Nexus B22 Blade Fabric Extenders, Cisco In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU), and Cisco FabricPath.

Cisco Nexus 6004 Extensible Fixed Switch Overview

The Cisco Nexus 6004 Extensible Fixed (6004EF) Switch is the latest switch in the Cisco Nexus 6000 Series. It extends the industry-leading innovation and versatility of the Cisco Nexus 6000 Series data center switches and runs the same industry-leading Cisco NX-OS Software operating system. The Cisco Nexus 6004EF is versatile. Choose either front-to-back or back to-front airflow options to suit traditional data center implementations or large-scale cloud deployments. And with 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 40 Gigabit Ethernet, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connectivity options, you can build a scalable Cisco Unified Fabric across a range of physical and virtual server environments. An extensible architecture also makes the Cisco Nexus 6004EF a low-cost entry point for small-scale deployments.

The Cisco Nexus 6004EF (Figure 1) is a 4-rack-unit (4RU) 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switch with the industry’s highest port density in a compact, energy-efficient form factor. It offers eight line-card expansion module (LEM) slots to support up to 96 ports of 40-Gbps throughput. Each LEM supports 12 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet in a Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable (QSFP) footprint. Each 40 Gigabit Ethernet port can also be split into four line‑rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports using QSFP breakout cables. This flexibility makes the Cisco Nexus 6004EF the only fully extensible fixed 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet platform in the industry. The Cisco Nexus 6004EF also offers a unified expansion module for 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel and FCoE support.

Integrated Layer 2 and Layer 3 features enhance performance to deliver low-latency wire-speed connectivity of approximately 1 microsecond for any packet size. The Cisco Nexus 6004EF maintains wire-speed performance for up to 96 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 384 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports using QSFP breakout cables for Ethernet and FCoE traffic. Overall throughput reaches 7.68 terabits per second (Tbps). The Cisco Nexus 6004EF also supports 1-Gbps connectivity using QSFP-to-SFP or QSFP-to-Enhanced SFP (SFP+) adapters for more flexibility.

Cisco Nexus 6004EF Switch Expansion Module Options

Cisco Nexus 6004EF expansion modules offer multiple interface options with the chassis base. Each 40 Gigabit Ethernet expansion module provides 12 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE ports using a QSFP interface. With all eight expansion modules installed, the Cisco Nexus 6004EF delivers 96 ports of QSFP or 384 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (SFP+) using the breakout cables. And all expansion modules are hot swappable. The 40 Gigabit Ethernet expansion module for the Cisco Nexus 6004EF is shown in Figure 2.

The Cisco Nexus 6004EF also offers a unified expansion module for Ethernet and FCoE and native Fibre Channel support. The unified port module provides up to twenty 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE ports using the SFP+ interface or up to 20 ports of 8/4/2-Gbps native Fibre Channel connectivity using the SFP+ and SFP interfaces; the use of 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 8/4/2-Gbps Fibre Channel on a port is mutually exclusive but can be selected for any of the 20 physical ports per module. The 20-port unified expansion module for the Cisco Nexus 6004EF is shown in Figure 3.

The Cisco Nexus 6004EF also supports a 100 Gigabit Ethernet expansion module that supports 100 Gigabit Ethernet with CXP optics. The 100 Gigabit Ethernet LEM offers four 100-Gbps CXP ports with support for up to 32 ports in a fully loaded system (Figure 4).

Efficient Transceiver and Cabling Options

High-bandwidth Gigabit Ethernet connectivity can pose transmission challenges. However, the Cisco Nexus 6004EF platform supports numerous 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity options using Cisco 40GBASE QSFP and breakout cable options.

Table 1 lists the supported transceiver and cable options.

Table 1.       Cisco Nexus 6004EF Transceiver Support Matrix

The Cisco Nexus 6004EF supports an innovative Twinax copper cabling solution that connects to standard QSFP connectors for in-rack use. You can use optical cabling for longer cable runs (Table 2).

●   In-rack or adjacent-rack cabling: QSFP+ direct-attach 40 Gigabit Ethernet copper cables integrate transceivers with Twinax cables into an energy-efficient, low-cost, and low-latency solution. QSFP+ direct-attach 40 Gigabit Ethernet Twinax copper cables use only 1.5 watts (W) of power per transceiver and introduce less than 0.1 microsecond of latency per link.

●   Longer cable runs: the Cisco Nexus 6004EF supports multimode, short-reach optical QSFP transceivers. These optical transceivers use approximately 1.5W per transceiver and have a latency of less than 0.1 microsecond.

Table 2.       Cisco Nexus 6004EF Support for QSFP Direct-Attach 40 Gigabit Ethernet Copper for In-Rack Cabling, and
Direct - Attach Breakout Cable for Optical Solutions for Longer Connections (Ethernet Only)

Features and Benefits

The Cisco Nexus 6004EF delivers scalable performance, intelligence, and a broad set of features to address the needs of data center networks. A comprehensive feature set makes the Cisco Nexus 6004EF especially well-suited for virtualized and cloud-based deployments. Cisco high-performance ASICs integrate and connect virtual environments to high-performance data center servers. The Cisco Nexus 6004EF can be deployed in the middle of row or at the end of row in the data center.

Scalable architecture protects your investment. In 10 Gigabit Ethernet optimized environments, scale up to 384 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. You can easily meet increasing demand for 40 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity through the switch’s combined high port density, lossless Ethernet, wire-speed performance, and very low latency. And a common Ethernet-based fabric across physical and virtual deployments simplifies management. Cisco Nexus 6004EF features include:

●   Optimization for virtualization and cloud deployments: The Cisco Nexus 6004EF supports demanding virtualized and cloud computing environments with high scalability and performance. You can rely on the Cisco Nexus 6004EF to meet current and future needs.

●   Density and resiliency: Cisco Nexus switches are designed just like the servers they support. Ports and power connections are at the rear, close to server ports. This arrangement keeps cable lengths short and efficient. Hot swappable power and fan modules are accessible from the front panel, along with an at-a-glance view of switch operation status. Front-to-back or back-to-front cooling is consistent with server designs, supporting efficient data center hot-and cold-aisle designs. Serviceability is enhanced with customer-replaceable units accessible from the front panel. And QSFP ports accommodate your choice of interconnects, including copper Twinax cable for short runs and fiber for long runs.

●   Energy efficiency: The Cisco Nexus 6004EF helps data centers operate within their space, power, and cooling parameters while reducing carbon footprints. Switch power supplies can maintain 90 percent efficiency at load conditions as low as 25 percent utilization. Size the switch appropriately to support full loads without sacrificing energy efficiency.

●   Low latency: The Cisco Nexus 6004EF with cut-through switching supports approximately 1 microsecond of port-to-port latency for any packet size with features enabled.

●   Intelligent Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) and Encapsulated SPAN (ERSPAN): SPAN and ERSPAN are used for troubleshooting and robust traffic monitoring. The Cisco Nexus 6004EF uses only extra bandwidth capacity for SPAN and ERSPAN traffic, and any fabric bandwidth not used for data traffic can be allocated to this purpose. SPAN and ERSPAN traffic is categorized as best effort; if links are congested, SPAN and ERSPAN traffic is dropped first. The Cisco Nexus 6004EF can support up to 31 line-rate SPAN and ERSPAN sessions.

●   Flexible buffer management: A 25-MB packet buffer is shared among every 3 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet or every 12 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet. In the 25-MB buffer, 16 MB are used for ingress buffering, and 9 MB are used for egress buffering. You can designate buffers as shared, dedicated, or shared plus dedicated. Flexible buffer management lets you dynamically tune buffer sizes if congestion occurs.

●   Multicast enhancements: The Cisco Nexus 6004EF supports line-rate Layer 2 and Layer 3 multicast throughput for all frame sizes. It offers optimized multicast replication through the fabric and at the egress point, and large buffers absorb bursty traffic. The switch supports 32,000 multicast routes and Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping tables in hardware. Multicast enhancements include flow-based hashing for multicast traffic over port channels and enhanced bidirectional Protocol Independent Multicast (BiDiR PIM) support. The Cisco Nexus 6004EF also supports IP-based forwarding for IGMP snooping.

●   Future support for Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation (DFA): The Cisco Nexus 6004EF with support for Cisco DFA helps simplify, automate, and optimize data center networks. Now you can deploy 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet leaf-and-spine fabrics to reduce provisioning time, improve data center orchestration and maintenance, and manage network growth more easily.

Applications

The Cisco Nexus 6004EF supports numerous application scenarios, making the switch a versatile data center option.

Unified Access Architecture: High-Density Fabric Extender Aggregator

Cisco Fabric Extender Technology (FEX Technology) enables you to build a single, modular fabric that extends from Cisco Nexus switches to Cisco Unified Computing System^™ (Cisco UCS^®) servers to adapters (Cisco Adapter FEX) and to virtual machines (Cisco Data Center Virtual Machine FEX [VM-FEX]). Cisco FEX Technology is based on the emerging IEEE 802.1br standard. Designing the network using Cisco FEX Technology provides flexibility, cabling efficiency, and a single point of management. Cisco Nexus 2200 platform fabric extenders can be single or dual connected (using enhanced virtual port channels [EvPCs]) to two upstream Cisco Nexus 6004EF Switches (Figure 5). Servers or the end host can connect to single or dual Cisco Nexus 2200 platform fabric extenders using network-interface-card (NIC) teaming when the parent Cisco Nexus 6004EF is enabled for EvPC.

Common Cisco Nexus 2200 and Nexus 2300 platform and Cisco Nexus 6000 Series deployment options include:

●   Rack servers with 100 Megabit Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, or 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs: The fabric extender can be physically located at the top of the rack, and the Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switch can reside in the middle or at the end of the row. Alternately, the fabric extender and the Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switch can both reside at the end or middle of the row

●   Mixed 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet environments: Rack servers can run at either speed in the same rack or in adjacent racks

●   10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE deployments: Use servers with converged network adapters (CNAs) for unified fabric environments with the Cisco Nexus 2232PP 10GE Fabric Extender

●   1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet BASE-T server connectivity: Simplify migration from 1 to 10GBASE-T and reuse structured cabling efficiently

●   1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet blade servers with pass-through blades

●   Low-latency, high-performance computing environments

●   Virtualized access

In addition to fabric extender deployment options, the Cisco Nexus 6004EF can perform as a high-density fabric extender aggregation platform. For example:

●   High-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching: Use the Cisco Nexus 6004EF and the Cisco Nexus 2248PQ 10GE Fabric Extender (Figure 6), a 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric extender with four 40 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks to the Cisco Nexus 6004EF. This combination consolidates more than 2304 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections in a single management plane. It also provides the highest 10 Gigabit Ethernet server density available with a low oversubscription ratio.

●   10 Gigabit Ethernet connection consolidation: Use the Cisco Nexus 6004EF with the Cisco Nexus 2232PP 10GE fabric extender to consolidate more than 768 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections in a single management plane.

●   Deploy a single point of management: Aggregate a variety of blade fabric extender options into a Cisco Nexus 6004EF using 10 Gigabit Ethernet. This solution provides a single point of management for blade server deployments.

●   Create high-density 1 Gigabit Ethernet switching: Use the Cisco Nexus 6004EF Switch and a Cisco Nexus 2248TP GE Fabric Extender as a high-density 1 Gigabit Ethernet switching system. This combination also consolidates 2304 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections into a single management plane.

Table 3 lists the fabric extenders that the Cisco Nexus 6004EF supports. Please refer to the Cisco Nexus 2200/2300 platform data sheets and release notes for more information about each product.

Table 3.       Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders Supported with Cisco Nexus 6004EF

Compact Aggregation

Data center designs are increasingly moving toward less oversubscription, starting at the server access layer. At the same time, more 10 Gigabit Ethernet server deployments demand top-of-rack (ToR) solutions that can provide 40 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks. The Cisco Nexus 6004EF with high-density 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports is an excellent compact aggregation platform for ToR switches with 40 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks (Figure 7).

Large-Scale Fabric (Layer 2 and Layer 3): Leaf-and-Spine Architecture

Data center architecture is changing to more efficiently support multiple, high-traffic applications. New, large-scale nonblocking fabrics promote high-volume east-west or north-south traffic. The Cisco Nexus 6004EF is an excellent leaf or spine node in a Layer 2 or Layer 3 fabric design. As a high-density, low-latency switch, it flattens the network architecture to support connections that scale to more than 10,000 servers with large bisectional bandwidth. The leaf-and-spine design helps ensure low-latency fabric with a low hop count. Spine switches create a nonblocking, low-latency fabric, forwarding packets between leaves.

Leaf switches provide connectivity to servers. A highly meshed architecture helps ensure high network availability with little impact on customer traffic if a failure occurs. The Cisco Nexus 6004EF can be deployed as a Layer 2 or Layer 3 spine or leaf switch (Figure 8) for design flexibility.

Multihop FCoE

Cisco Unified Fabric combines data center and storage networks into a single high-performance, highly available, and scalable network. The Cisco Nexus 6004EF is the first switch in the industry to support 40 Gigabit Ethernet FCoE (Figure 9 and Figure 10). The Cisco Nexus 6004EF can support end-to-end data center convergence from server to storage with multihop FCoE connectivity. Its FCoE function complements FCoE functions on the Cisco Nexus 5500 platform. With a broad selection of standards-based FCoE switches, Cisco Unified Fabric provides a simplified infrastructure based on lossless 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet for:

●   Access and core network layers

●   Storage traffic (FCoE and Small Computer System Interface over IP [iSCSI] network-attached storage [NAS])

High-Performance Computing and High-Frequency Trading

High-performance computing (HPC) and high-frequency trading (HFT) environments can use the Cisco Nexus 6004EF as a high-density access-layer switch. In these environments, the switch helps reduce latency by consolidating server traffic with few network hops (Figure 11). Get the most 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports per rack unit and approximately 1 microsecond of latency port to port for any packet size. Further protect your investment with integrated line-rate Layer 2 and Layer 3 features for high scalability and integrated data analytics with programmability. Cisco Nexus 6004EF switches provide you with management visibility and high performance for bulk transfers that InfiniBand solutions can’t match.

Product Architecture

The Cisco Nexus 6000 Series is built on two custom ASICs: a unified crossbar fabric and a unified port controller. Depending on your desired port density, each Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switch contains a single or multiple unified crossbar fabric ASICs. The unified crossbar fabric is a single-stage, nonblocking crossbar. It provides connectivity and arbitration between unified port controllers to access the fabric. The Cisco Nexus 6000 Series offers superior performance by implementing quality-of-service (QoS)-aware buffering, queuing, and scheduling for unicast and multicast traffic.

Multiple unified port controllers support fixed ports and expansion modules within the switch. Each unified port controller handles three 40-Gbps or twelve 10-Gbps ports. Each controller also processes packets with features such as forwarding, buffering, and queuing decisions for each frame. The cut-through characteristic of the architecture provides low latency for both 10 and 40 Gbps at 1 microsecond, independent of the frame size.

Cisco NX-OS Software Overview

The Cisco NX-OS operating system easily meets today’s virtualization and automation needs and supports both Ethernet and storage demands. Use it to customize your environment and encourage innovation with access to OS services and greatly simplify management at the same time.

Cisco NX-OS Software Features and Benefits

●   Software compatibility: Cisco NX-OS Software Release 6.0 works with Cisco products running any variant of the Cisco IOS^® Software operating system. It also works with any networking operating system that conforms to the networking standards listed in this data sheet.

●   Common software throughout the data center: A common operating system across the data center simplifies management of everything: LAN, SAN, and Layer 4 through 7 network services.

●   Modular software design: Cisco NX-OS is designed to support distributed multithreaded processing on symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs), multicore CPUs, and distributed line-card processors. Offload intense computation, such as hardware table programming, to dedicated processors across the line cards. Cisco NX-OS instantiates modular processes on demand, each in a protected memory space. Processes are launched and system resources allocated only when a feature is enabled. A real-time preemptive scheduler helps ensure timely processing of critical functions.

●   Enhanced vPC: The vPC feature allows one end of a port channel to be split across a pair of Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches. vPC provides Layer 2 multipathing by eliminating Spanning Tree Protocol-blocked ports in dual-homed connections. Now you can simplify Layer 2 logical topologies and get full bisectional bandwidth utilization without changing your management and deployment models. The vPC feature also enables edge devices to connect to Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders, and the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders can connect to Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches using vPC at the same time.

●   Cisco FabricPath: Cisco FabricPath is a set of multipath Ethernet technologies that combine reliability and scalability with the flexibility of Layer 2 networks to build massively scalable data centers. Cisco FabricPath offers a topology-based, Layer 2 routing mechanism that provides an equal-cost multipath (ECMP) forwarding model and solves MAC address table scalability problems that are characteristic of switched Layer 2 networks. Cisco FabricPath also supports vPC+, a technology that allows redundant interconnection of the existing Ethernet infrastructure to Cisco FabricPath without using Spanning Tree Protocol. Cisco FabricPath benefits include:

◦     Operation simplicity: An autodiscovery mechanism eliminates the need for additional platform configuration. By offering Layer 2 connectivity, the “VLAN anywhere” characteristic simplifies provisioning and offers workload flexibility across the network.

◦     High resiliency and performance: Because Cisco FabricPath is a Layer 2 routed protocol, it offers stability, scalability, and optimized resiliency, along with network failure containment.

◦     Massively scalable fabric: By building a forwarding model on 16-way ECMP routing, Cisco FabricPath helps prevent bandwidth bottlenecks. You can add capacity dynamically, without network disruption.

◦     Multiple-topology support: Cisco FabricPath provides support for two distinct topologies, providing VLAN localization and reuse in the network.

●   Automation: Cisco NX-OS power-on provisioning automatically configures devices. Create custom Python scripts to further customize your environment.

●   Programmatic XML interface: The Cisco NX-OS XML interface is based on the NETCONF industry standard. A consistent API for devices accelerates development and tool creation.

●   Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP): Cisco NX-OS complies with SNMPv1, v2, and v3. It supports an extensive collection of MIBs.

●   Role-based access control (RBAC): With RBAC, you can limit access to switch operations by assigning roles to users. Administrators can customize access and restrict it to the users who require it.

Cisco NX-OS Software Packaging for Cisco Nexus 6004EF

Cisco Nexus 6004EF software packaging offers flexibility and a comprehensive feature set while being consistent with Cisco Nexus access switches. Default system software has a comprehensive Layer 2 security and management feature set and base-level Layer 3 feature set. For advanced Layer 3 IP Unicast and IP Multicast routing functions, you must install additional licenses. Table 4 lists the software packages and licenses available to enable various advanced features.

Table 4.       Software Packaging and Licensing

Cisco ONE Software

Licenses can be purchased individually for each feature as shown in Table 4 or through Cisco ONE^™ Software for Data Center Networking which is available for the Cisco Nexus 6004EF Switch.

Cisco ONE Software provides a new way for customers to purchase, consume, and use our infrastructure software. It offers a simplified consumption model focused on common customer scenarios for the data center, WAN, and LAN.

Cisco ONE Software and services provide customers with four main benefits:

●   Software suites that address typical customer use scenarios at an attractive price

●   Investment protection of software purchases through software services-enabled license portability

●   Access to ongoing innovation and new technology with Cisco Software Support Service (SWSS)

●   Flexible licensing models to smoothly distribute the customer's software spending over time

For ordering information for Cisco ONE Software for the Cisco Nexus 6004EF Switch, please click here.

Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager

Cisco Prime DCNM provides LAN and SAN management capabilities for Cisco Nexus and Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches. Gain efficient control, monitoring, and provisioning with the GUI:

●   Cisco Unified Fabric visibility and topology display with VMware vSphere integration shows connectivity from the virtual machine to the VMware ESX host, to the switch, and to the storage array.

●   Event aggregation and filtering prevents information overload and helps you quickly identify network problems.

●   Deployment wizards and user-modifiable templates help you implement best practices.

●   RBAC secures devices and provides appropriate delegation.

●   Integrated domain dashboards, health monitoring, reporting, change tracking, and user auditing provide comprehensive management capabilities.

●   Trend monitoring of ports and traffic let you optimize existing resources and anticipate new resource requirements.

Table 5 lists the specifications for the Cisco Nexus 6004EF.

Note:    Please check software release notes for feature support information.

Table 5.       Product Specifications

Power Supply

Table 6 lists the Cisco Nexus 6004EF power supply properties.

Table 6.       Power Supply Properties

Environment

Table 7 lists the environmental properties of the Cisco Nexus 6004EF.

Table 7.       Environmental Properties

Weight

Table 8 lists the Cisco Nexus 6004EF switch weight.

Table 8.       Weight

Software Requirements

The Cisco Nexus 6004EF supports Cisco NX-OS Software Release 7.0(3)N1(1) and later. Cisco NX-OS interoperates with any networking operating system that conforms to the networking standards mentioned in this data sheet. For the latest software release information and recommendations, please refer to the product bulletin at http://www.cisco.com/go/nexus6000.

Regulatory Standards Compliance

Table 9 summarizes regulatory standards compliance for the Cisco Nexus 6004EF.

Table 9.       Regulatory Standards Compliance: Safety and EMC

Ordering Information

Table 10 presents ordering information for the Cisco Nexus 6004EF. Note that you can order the Cisco Nexus 2200 platform fabric extenders either separately or with the Cisco Nexus 6004EF.

Table 10.     Ordering Information

Warranty

The Cisco Nexus 6004EF has a 1-year limited hardware warranty. The warranty includes hardware replacement with a 10-day turnaround from receipt of a return materials authorization (RMA).

Service and Support

Cisco offers a wide range of services to accelerate your success with the Cisco Nexus 6004EF. Cisco Services staff, processes, tools, and partners are focused on helping you increase operation efficiency. Cisco Advanced Services uses an architecture-led approach to help you align your data center infrastructure with your business goals and achieve long-term value. Cisco SMARTnet^® Service helps you resolve mission-critical problems with direct access to Cisco network experts and award-winning resources. With Cisco SMARTnet Service, use the Cisco Smart Call Home service feature, which delivers proactive diagnostics and real-time alerts on your Cisco Nexus 6004EF. Cisco Services offerings span the network lifecycle to help you protect your investment, optimize operations, support migration, and strengthen your IT expertise.

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For More Information

●   Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches: http://www.cisco.com/go/nexus6000

●   Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders: http://www.cisco.com/go/nexus2000

●   Cisco NX-OS Software: http://www.cisco.com/go/nxos