Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI-Mode Switches Release Notes, Release 15.0(2)

April 27, 2023

Added the N9K-M12PQ, N9K-M6PQ, and N9K-M6PQ-E expansion modules to the No Longer Supported section.

October 31, 2022

In the Open Issues section, added bug CSCvv33100.

May 16, 2022

In the Open Issues section, added bug CSCwa47686.

March 16, 2022

In the Open Issues section, added bugs CSCwa95241 and CSCwb14844.

December 16, 2021

In the Open Issues section, added bug CSCvz95984.

December 7, 2021

In the Compatibility Information section, for the N9K-C9364C-GX switch, added:

All 4 fans must be operational, otherwise the switch will power down due to a fan policy trigger.

August 18, 2021

In the Compatibility Information section, for the N9K-C9316D-GX, N9K-C93600CD-GX, and N9K-C9364C-GX switches, added:

1G and 100MB speeds are not supported.

July 6, 2021

In the Supported Hardware section, added the NXA-PAC-500W-PI and NXA-PAC-500W-PE PSUs.

June 21, 2021

In the Known Issues section, added bug CSCvu42069.

June 15, 2021

In the Open Issues section, added bug CSCvy43640.

March 23, 2021

In the Open Issues section, added bug CSCvx70611.

January 19, 2021

In the Known Behaviors section, changed the following sentence:

The Cisco Nexus 9508 ACI-mode switch supports warm (stateless) standby where the state is not synched between the active and the standby supervisor modules.

To:

The modular chassis Cisco ACI spine nodes, such as the Cisco Nexus 9508, support warm (stateless) standby where the state is not synched between the active and the standby supervisor modules.

August 7, 2020

Release 15.0(2h) became available; there are no changes to this document for this release. See the Cisco Cloud Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Release Notes, Release 5.0(2) for the changes in this release.

July 3, 2020

Release 15.0(2e) became available.

N9K-C9504

Cisco Nexus 9504 switch chassis

N9K-C9508

Cisco Nexus 9508 switch chassis

N9K-C9508-B1

Cisco Nexus 9508 chassis bundle with 1 supervisor module, 3 power supplies, 2 system controllers, 3 fan trays, and 3 fabric modules

N9K-C9508-B2

Cisco Nexus 9508 chassis bundle with 1 supervisor module, 3 power supplies, 2 system controllers, 3 fan trays, and 6 fabric modules

N9K-C9516

Cisco Nexus 9516 switch chassis

N9K-X9736C-FX

Cisco Nexus 9500 36-port 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet Cloud Scale line card

4

8

16

N9K-X9736Q-FX

Cisco Nexus 9500 36-port 40 Gigabit Ethernet Cloud Scale line card

4

8

16

N9K-X9732C-EX

Cisco Nexus 9500 32-port, 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet Cloud Scale line card

Note: The N9K-X9732C-EX line card cannot be used when a fabric module is installed in FM slot 25.

4

8

16

N9K-C9508-FM-G

Cisco Nexus 9508 cloud scale fabric module (400G capable)

4

5

N9K-C9504-FM-E

Cisco Nexus 9504 cloud scale fabric module

4

5

N9K-C9508-FM-E

Cisco Nexus 9508 cloud scale fabric module

4

5

N9K-C9508-FM-E2

Cisco Nexus 9508 cloud scale fabric module

4

5

N9K-C9516-FM-E2

Cisco Nexus 9516 cloud scale fabric module

4

5

N9K-C9508-FAN2

Fan tray that supports the Cisco N9K-C9508-FM-G fabric module

N9K-C9508-FAN-PWR

Blank fan power card that supports the N9K-C9508-FAN2 fan trays.

N9K-C9504-FAN

Fan tray for Cisco Nexus 9504 chassis

N9K-C9508-FAN

Fan tray for Cisco Nexus 9508 chassis

N9K-C9516-FAN

Fan tray for Cisco Nexus 9516 chassis

N9K-SUP-A+

Cisco Nexus 9500 Series supervisor module

N9K-SUP-B+

Cisco Nexus 9500 Series supervisor module

N9K-SUP-A

Cisco Nexus 9500 Series supervisor module

N9K-SUP-B

Cisco Nexus 9500 Series supervisor module

N9K-SC-A

Cisco Nexus 9500 Series system controller

N9K-C9316D-GX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 16 10/40/100/400-Gigabit QSFP-DD ports (ports 1-16).

N9K-C9332C

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 32 40/100-Gigabit QSFP28 ports and 2 SFP ports. Ports 25-32 offer hardware support for MACsec encryption.

N9K-C9364C

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 64 40/100-Gigabit QSFP28 ports and two 1/10-Gigabit SFP+ ports. The last 16 of the QSFP28 ports are colored green to indicate that they support wire-rate MACsec encryption.

N9K-PAC-1200W

1200W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 93120TX and 9336PQ ACI-mode switches

N9K-PAC-1200W-B

1200W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 93120TX and 9336PQ ACI-mode switches

NXA-PAC-1200W-PE

1200W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

NXA-PAC-1200W-PI

1200W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

NXA-PAC-1100W-PE2

1100W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PAC-1100W-PI2

1100W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PAC-750W-PE

750W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

Note: This power supply is supported only on release 14.2(1) and later.

NXA-PAC-750W-PI

750W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

Note: This power supply is supported only on release 14.2(1) and later.

NXA-PDC-1100W-PE

1100W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PDC-1100W-PI

1100W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PDC-930W-PE

930W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PDC-930W-PI

930W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PHV-1100W-PE

1100W HVAC/HVDC power supply, port-side exhaust

NXA-PHV-1100W-PI

1100W HVAC/HVDC power supply, port-side intake

N9K-PUV-1200W

1200W HVAC/HVDC dual-direction airflow power supply

N9K-C9300-FAN3

Burgundy port side intake fan

N9K-C9300-FAN3-B

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-160CFM-PE

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-160CFM-PI

Burgundy port side intake fan

NXA-FAN-35CFM-PE

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-35CFM-PI

Burgundy port side intake fan

N9K-C9364C-GX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 64 100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 ports, two management ports (one RJ-45 port and one SFP port), one console port (RS-232), and one USB port.

N9K-C93600CD-GX

Cisco Nexus 93600CD-GX switch with 28 10/40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 ports (ports 1-28) and 8 10/40/100/400-Gigabit QSFP-DD ports (ports 29-36).

N9K-C93240YC-FX2

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 48 1/10/25-Gigabit Ethernet SFP28 ports and 12 40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 ports. The N9K-C93240YC-FX2 is a 1.2-RU switch.

Note: 10/25G-LR-S with QSA is not supported.

N9K-C93216TC-FX2

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 96 1/10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 12 40 /100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 spine-facing ports

N9K-C93360YC-FX2

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 96 1/10/25-Gigabit front panel ports and 12 40 /100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP spine-facing ports.

Note: The supported total number of fabric ports and port profile converted fabric links is 64.

N9K-C9336C-FX2

Cisco Nexus C9336C-FX2 Top-of-rack (ToR) switch with 36 fixed 40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 spine-facing ports.

Note: 1-Gigabit QSA is not supported on ports 1/1-6 and 1/33-36. The port profile feature supports downlink conversion of ports 31 through 34. Ports 35 and 36 can only be used as uplinks.

N9K-C93108TC-FX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 48 1/10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 6 fixed 40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 spine-facing ports.

Note: Incoming FCOE packets are redirected by the supervisor module. The data plane-forwarded packets are dropped and are counted as forward drops instead of as supervisor module drops.

N9K-C93108TC-FX-24

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 24 1/10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 6 fixed 40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 spine-facing ports.

Note: Incoming FCOE packets are redirected by the supervisor module. The data plane-forwarded packets are dropped and are counted as forward drops instead of as supervisor module drops.

N9K-C93180YC-FX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 48 1/10/25-Gigabit Ethernet SFP28 front panel ports and 6 fixed 40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 spine-facing ports. The SFP28 ports support 1-, 10-, and 25-Gigabit Ethernet connections and 8-, 16-, and 32-Gigabit Fibre Channel connections.

Note: Incoming FCOE packets are redirected by the supervisor module. The data plane-forwarded packets are dropped and are counted as forward drops instead of as supervisor module drops.

N9K-C93180YC-FX-24

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 24 1/10/25-Gigabit Ethernet SFP28 front panel ports and 6 fixed 40/100-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP28 spine-facing ports. The SFP28 ports support 1-, 10-, and 25-Gigabit Ethernet connections and 8-, 16-, and 32-Gigabit Fibre Channel connections.

Note: Incoming FCOE packets are redirected by the supervisor module. The data plane-forwarded packets are dropped and are counted as forward drops instead of as supervisor module drops.

N9K-C9348GC-FXP

Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP switch with 48 100/1000-Megabit 1GBASE-T downlink ports, 4 10-/25-Gigabit SFP28 downlink ports, and 2 40-/100-Gigabit QSFP28 uplink ports.

N9K-C93108TC-EX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 48 1/10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 6 40/100-Gigabit QSFP28 spine facing ports.

N9K-C93108TC-EX-24

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 24 1/10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 6 40/100-Gigabit QSFP28 spine facing ports.

N9K-C93180LC-EX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 24 40-Gigabit front panel ports and 6 40/100-Gigabit QSFP28 spine-facing ports.

The switch can be used as either a 24 40G port switch or a 12 100G port switch. If 100G is connected the Port1, Port 2 will be HW disabled.

N9K-C93180YC-EX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 48 1/10/25-Gigabit front panel ports and 6-port 40/100 Gigabit QSFP28 spine-facing ports.

N9K-C93180YC-EX-24

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 24 1/10/25-Gigabit front panel ports and 6-port 40/100 Gigabit QSFP28 spine-facing ports.

N9K-C93120TX

Cisco Nexus 9300 platform switch with 96 1/10GBASE-T (copper) front panel ports and 6-port 40-Gigabit Ethernet QSFP spine-facing ports.

NXA-PAC-2KW-PE

Nexus 9000 2KW AC power supply, port-side exhaust

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX ACI-mode switch.

NXA-PAC-2KW-PI

Nexus 9000 2KW AC power supply, port-side intake

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX ACI-mode switch.

N9K-PAC-1200W

1200W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 93120TX and 9336PQ ACI-mode switches

N9K-PAC-1200W-B

1200W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 93120TX and 9336PQ ACI-mode switches

N9k-PAC-3000W-B

3000W AC power supply, port side intake

N9K-PAC-650W

650W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

N9K-PAC-650W-B

650W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PAC-1200W-PE

1200W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

NXA-PAC-1200W-PI

1200W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

NXA-PAC-1100W-PE2

1100W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PAC-1100W-PI2

1100W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PAC-750W-PE

750W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

Note: This power supply is supported only on release 14.2(1) and later.

NXA-PAC-750W-PI

750W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

Note: This power supply is supported only on release 14.2(1) and later.

NXA-PAC-650W-PE

650W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PAC-650W-PI

650W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PAC-500W-PE

500W AC Power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PAC-500W-PI

500W AC Power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PAC-350W-PE

350W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PAC-350W-PI

350W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PDC-2KW-PE

Nexus 9000 2KW DC power supply, port-side exhaust

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX ACI-mode switch.

NXA-PDC-2KW-PI

Nexus 9000 2KW DC power supply, port-side intake

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX ACI-mode switch.

NXA-PDC-1100W-PE

1100W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PDC-1100W-PI

1100W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PDC-930W-PE

930W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

NXA-PDC-930W-PI

930W AC power supply, port side intake pluggable

NXA-PDC-440W-PE

440W DC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP ACI-mode switch.

NXA-PDC-440W-PI

440W DC power supply, port side intake pluggable, with higher fan speeds for NEBS compliance

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9348GC-FXP ACI-mode switch.

NXA-PHV-2KW-PE

Nexus 9000 2KW AC power supply, port-side exhaust

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX ACI-mode switch.

NXA-PHV-2KW-PI

Nexus 9000 2KW AC power supply, port-side intake

Note: This power supply is supported only by the Cisco Nexus 9364C-GX ACI-mode switch.

NXA-PHV-1100W-PE

1100W HVAC/HVDC power supply, port-side exhaust

NXA-PHV-1100W-PI

1100W HVAC/HVDC power supply, port-side intake

NXA-PHV-350W-PE

350W HVAC/HVDC power supply, port-side exhaust

NXA-PHV-350W-PI

350W HVAC/HVDC power supply, port-side intake

N9K-PUV-1200W

1200W HVAC/HVDC dual-direction airflow power supply

N9K-PUV-3000W-B

3000W AC power supply, port side exhaust pluggable

UCSC-PSU-930WDC V01

Port side exhaust DC power supply compatible with all ToR leaf switches

UCS-PSU-6332-DC

930W DC power supply, reversed airflow (port side exhaust)

N9K-C9300-FAN2

Burgundy port side intake fan

N9K-C9300-FAN2-B

Blue port side exhaust fan

N9K-C9300-FAN3

Burgundy port side intake fan

N9K-C9300-FAN3-B

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-160CFM2-PE

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-160CFM2-PI

Burgundy port side intake fan

NXA-FAN-160CFM-PE

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-160CFM-PI

Burgundy port side intake fan

NXA-FAN-30CFM-B

Burgundy port side intake fan

NXA-FAN-30CFM-F

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-35CFM-PE

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-35CFM-PI

Burgundy port side intake fan

NXA-FAN-65CFM-PE

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-SFAN-65CFM-PE

Blue port side exhaust fan

NXA-FAN-65CFM-PI

Burgundy port side intake fan

NXA-SFAN-65CFM-PI

Burgundy port side intake fan

Spine switch

■        N9K-C9336PQ

Modular spine switch line card

■        N9K-X9736PQ

Modular spine switch fabric module

■        N9K-C9504-FM

■        N9K-C9508-FM

■        N9K-C9516-FM

Leaf Switch

■        N9K-C9372PX-E

■        N9K-C9372TX-E

■        N9K-C9332PQ

■        N9K-C9372PX

■        N9K-C9372TX

■        N9K-C9396PX

■        N9K-C9396TX

■        N9K-C93128TX

Expansion Modules

■        N9K-M12PQ

■        N9K-M6PQ

■        N9K-M6PQ-E

CSCvg85886

When an ARP request is generated from one endpoint to another endpoint in an isolated EPG, an ARP glean request is generated for the first endpoint.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvh18100

If Cisco ACI Virtual Edge or AVS is operating in VxLAN non-switching mode behind a FEX, the traffic between endpoints in the same EPG will fail when the bridge domain has ARP flooding enabled.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvp09949

Copy service traffic will fail to reach the TEP where the copy devices are connected. Traffic will not be seen on the spine switches.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvs87190

The Cisco N9K-C93180YC-EX switch does not support auto-negotiation on 10/25/40/100G transceivers. Links will not come up if auto-negotiation enabled on Cisco N9K-C93180YC-EX ports.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvt02504

The logs for a route table mismatch are not clear.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvt55002

When MPLS config is enabled, a fault will be raised in APIC asking to reload the switch in order to enable MPLS statistics. Only after a reload is done, MPLS stats will start getting accounted.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvt57460

There is slow convergence of traffic after a spine switch reload or ToR switch reload.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvt87976

On a remote leaf switch, the sclass of a shared service endpoint can be incorrect due to overwriting of the sclass by the new share service prefix on a different EPG.Example:On the remote leaf switch, XR IP <IP1> is learned with sclass <S1>, which corresponds to the EPG sclass <sclass1> that is based on LPM (<prefix1>/24).If a more specific route leak subnet <prefix1/>29 is configured, then the XR endpoint is still learned with the EPG <sclass1> instead of the sclass coming from the <prefix1/>29 configuration.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvu02013

Data/IFC traffic arriving from the IPN will be classified incorrectly to the CPU class (iclass/oclass = 8). This will cause issues such as a remote leaf switch going out of the fabric or traffic drops in the remote leaf switch.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvu22299

VRF communication between two EPGs is disrupted when the last endpoint security group (ESG) under this VRF table that is using a different contract (with a service graph) is removed and service-graph contract is un-deployed. One of the EPGs is in the main datacenter (that is, behind a local leaf switch) and other EPG is behind a remote location (that is, behind a remote leaf switch).

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvu23488

VRF VNID translation gets deleted on a spine switch after PIM is enabled and then disabled on a remote leaf switch, which leads to traffic loss.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvv33100

The IPS port is not down when an RX cable is removed on a Cisco ACI leaf switch 1G port.

An ACI switch with 1G fiber would signal a peer IOS device, such as a Catalyst 6000 series switch, with flow control auto/desired to turn on the flow control.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvx70611

ARP requests that should be flooded in encapsulation are instead flooded across encapsulations on the border leaf switches.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvy43640

A leaf node crashes when PFC or LLFC is enabled on a stretched fabric or a Multi-tier fabric. PFC and LLFC is mainly used for FCoE and RoCE.

For a stretched fabric, when a transit leaf node that has connectivity to spine nodes in both locations receives the traffic that matches the QoS class with No-Drop-Cos and PFC enabled, the transit leaf node crashes.

For a Multi-tier fabric, when a tier-2 leaf node receives the traffic that matches the QoS class with No-Drop-Cos and PFC enabled, the tier-2 leaf node crashes.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvz95984

The value of "Use count" in the "show flow monitor" command output is incorrect.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwa12763

External route import for a VRF instance fails on a leaf switch after removing a shared services contract between two EPGs.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwa47686

For a Cisco ACI fabric with more than 128 leaf switches in a given pod, such as 210 leaf switches in a single pod deployment, after enabling PTP globally, only 128 leaf switches are able to enable PTP. The remaining 82 leaf switches fail to enable PTP due to the error F2728 latency-enable-failed.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwa95241

An endpoint may fail to resolve an ARP request of another endpoint.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwb08081

A route profile that matches on community list and sets the local pref and community is not working post upgrade to 5.2.x release.

route-map imp-l3out-L3OUT_WAN-peer-2359297, permit, sequence 4201

  Match clauses:

    community  (community-list filter): peer16389-2359297-exc-ext-in-L3OUT_WAN_COMMUNITY-rgcom

  Set clauses:

    local-preference 200

    community xxxxx:101 xxxxx:500 xxxxx:601 xxxxy:4 additive

The match clause works as expected, but the set clause is ignored.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwb14844

There is a long delay when connecting a Cisco N9K-C9336C-FX2 switch to a Mellanox NIC/40G using QSFP-40G-SR4. The status of the port is down, not connected.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwd29346

An ACI switch's console may continuously output messages similar to:

svc_ifc_eventmg (*****) Ran 7911 msecs in last 7924 msecs

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwd36295

The BFD process crashes in Cisco ACI switches and the BFD process is listed in the output of the "show cores" command.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwd44102

Fiber interfaces (QSA) show up as "Fcot Copper" in the USD port information. When a 10G Fiber optics with Copper QSA is inserted, the fcot gets updated as Copper only instead of Fiber.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwd49996

A leaf switch may the bring front panel ports up before programming all policies, which causes traffic to get dropped. The issue is specific to a stateless reload or upgrade. The root cause is related to pushing the configuration from the Cisco APIC to the leaf switch, resolving all objects and programming hardware tables. In some corner cases, the bootstrap may be falsely claimed as completed and ports go up while the actual hardware tables are not fully ready. Another symptom may be a significant amount of time needed for bootstrap (possibly over an hour).

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwd75707

The parser drops IP-in-IP packets that are associated with IP traffic on ingress leaf switches.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwd83289

After reloading a leaf switch, HAL becomes unresponsive, other processes generate a core, and HAL continuously runs with ZMQ processing.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwf04501

There are actrl.Rule programming failures followed by a policy-mgr HAP reset.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwh71704

When one of the vPC peers reloads and comes up, the non-reloaded peer is seen to be suspending the vPC interfaces.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwh72876

The EPM process crashed when there was no disk space was available at /var/sysmgr/tmp_logs/.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwh73782

Traffic that is forwarded by a spine switch toward a leaf switch is dropped by one of the spine switch's fabric modules.On this fabric module where packets are dropped, the TEP of the destination leaf switch is not programmed in FIB and HAL.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwh78987

Breakout ports configured as port channel members are no longer part of the port channel post clean reload.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCwi89535

A leaf switch crashes due to the following reason:

Reason: Reset triggered due to HA policy of ResetService: sdkhal hap resetVersion : xxx

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvu64219

There are 2 issues caused by this bug:

1. Dataplane learning is disabled, meaning learning is only occurs only from ARP and ND. This issue occurs on all platforms.

2. Hitbit does not get updated during learn disable, causing endpoints to age prematurely. This issue occurs with N9K-C9336C-FX2, N9K-C93240YC-FX2), N9K-C93240YC-FX2Z, and later switches.

15.0(2e)

CSCvv04251

A policy upgrade fails on the N9K-C9316D-GX and N9K-C93600CD-GX platforms that have the hw_changes_bit programmed as "0x03."

15.0(2e)

CSCuo37016

When configuring the output span on a FEX Hif interface, all the layer 3 switched packets going out of that FEX Hif interface are not spanned. Only layer 2 switched packets going out of that FEX Hif are spanned.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuo50533

When output span is enabled on a port where the filter is VLAN, multicast traffic in the VLAN that goes out of that port is not spanned.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCup65586

The show interface command shows the tunnel's Rx/Tx counters as 0.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCup82908

The show vpc brief command displays the wire-encap VLAN Ids and the show interface .. trunk command displays the internal/hardware VLAN IDs. Both VLAN IDs are allocated and used differently, so there is no correlation between them.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCup92534

Continuous "threshold exceeded" messages are generated from the fabric.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuq39829

Switch rescue user ("admin") can log into fabric switches even when TACACS is selected as the default login realm.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuq46369

An extra 4 bytes is added to the untagged packet with Egress local and remote SPAN.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuq77095

When the command show ip ospf vrf <vrf_name> is run from bash on the border leaf, the checksum field in the output always shows a zero value.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuq83910

When an IP address moves from one MAC behind one ToR to another MAC behind another ToR, even though the VM sends a GARP packet, in ARP unicast mode, this GARP packet is not flooded. As a result, any other host with the original MAC to IP binding sending an L2 packet will send to the original ToR where the IP was in the beginning (based on MAC lookup), and the packet will be sent out on the old port (location). Without flooding the GARP packet in the network, all hosts will not update the MAC-to-IP binding.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuq92447

When modifying the L2Unknown Unicast parameter on a Bridge Domain (BD), interfaces on externally connected devices may bounce. Additionally, the endpoint cache for the BD is flushed and all endpoints will have to be re-learned.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuq93389

If an endpoint has multiple IPs, the endpoint will not be aged until all IPs go silent. If one of the IP addresses is reassigned to another server/host, the fabric detects it as an IP address move and forwarding will work as expected.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCur01336

The power supply will not be detected after performing a PSU online insertion and removal (OIR).

15.0(2e) and later

CSCur81822

The access-port operational status is always "trunk".

15.0(2e) and later

CSCus18541

An MSTP topology change notification (TCN) on a flood domain (FD) VLAN may not flush endpoints learned as remote where the FD is not deployed.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCus29623

The transceiver type for some Cisco AOC (active optical) cables is displayed as ACU (active copper).

15.0(2e) and later

CSCus43167

Any TCAM that is full, or nearly full, will raise the usage threshold fault. Because the faults for all TCAMs on leaf switches are grouped together, the fault will appear even on those with low usage.

Workaround:  Review the leaf switch scale and reduce the TCAM usage. Contact TAC to isolate further which TCAM is full.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCus54135

The default route is not leaked by BGP when the scope is set to context. The scope should be set to Outside for default route leaking.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCus61748

If the TOR 1RU system is configured with the RED fan (the reverse airflow), the air will flow from front to back. The temperature sensor in the back will be defined as an inlet temperature sensor, and the temperature sensor in the front will be defined as an outlet temperature sensor.

If the TOR 1RU system is configured with the BLUE fan (normal airflow), the air will flow from back to front. The temperature sensor in the front will be defined as an inlet temperature sensor, and the temperature sensor in the back will be defined as outlet temperature sensor.

From the airflow perspective, the inlet sensor reading should always be less than the outlet sensor reading. However, in the TOR 1RU family, the front panel temperature sensor has some inaccurate readings due to the front panel utilization and configuration, which causes the inlet temperature sensor reading to be very close, equal, or even greater than the outlet temperature reading.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCut59020

If Backbone and NSSA areas are on the same leaf, and default route leak is enabled, Type-5 LSAs cannot be redistributed to the Backbone area.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuu11347

Traffic from the orphan port to the vPC pair is not recorded against the tunnel stats.  Traffic from the vPC pair to the orphan port is recorded against the tunnel stats.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuu11351

Traffic from the orphan port to the vPC pair is only updated on the destination node, so the traffic count shows as excess.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuu66310

If a bridge domain "Multi Destination Flood" mode is configured as "Drop", the ISIS PDU from the tenant space will get dropped in the fabric.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuv57302

Atomic counters on the border leaf do not increment for traffic from an endpoint group going to the Layer 3 out interface.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuv57315

Atomic counters on the border leaf do not increment for traffic from the Layer 3 out interface to an internal remote endpoint group.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuv57316

TEP counters from the border leaf to remote leaf nodes do not increment.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuw09389

For direct server return operations, if the client is behind the Layer 3 out, the server-to-client response will not be forwarded through the fabric.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCux97329

With the common pervasive gateway, only the packet destination to the virtual MAC is being properly Layer 3 forwarded. The packet destination to the bridge domain custom MAC fails to be forwarded. This is causing issues with certain appliances that rely on the incoming packets’ source MAC to set the return packet destination MAC.

15.0(2e) and later

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BCM does not have a stats option for yellow packets/bytes, and so BCM does not show in the switch or APIC GUI stats/observer.

15.0(2e) and later

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Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) echo mode is not supported on IPv6 BFD sessions carrying link-local as the source and destination IP address. BFD echo mode also is not supported on IPv4 BFD sessions over multihop or VPC peer links.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuy06749

Traffic is dropped between two isolated EPGs.

15.0(2e) and later

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The iping command’s replies get dropped by the QOS ingress policer.

15.0(2e) and later

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An overlapping or duplicate prefix/subnet could cause the valid prefixes not to be installed because of batching behavior on a switch. This can happen during an upgrade to the 1.2(2) release.

15.0(2e) and later

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EPG statistics only count total bytes and packets. The breakdown of statistics into multicast/unicast/broadcast is not available on new hardware.

15.0(2e) and later

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You must configure different router MACs for SVI on each border leaf if L3out is deployed over port-channels/ports with STP and OSPF/OSPFv3/eBGP protocols are used. There is no need to configure different router MACs if you use VPC.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuy61018

The default minimum bandwidth is used if the BW parameter is set to "0", and so traffic will still flow.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCuy96912

The debounce timer is not supported on 25G links.

15.0(2e) and later

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With the N9K-C93180YC-EX switch, drop packets, such as MTU or storm control drops, are not accounted for in the input rate calculation.

15.0(2e) and later

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For traffic coming out of an L3out to an internal EPG, stats for the actrlRule will not increment.

15.0(2e) and later

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When subnet check is enabled, a ToR does not learn IP addresses locally that are outside of the bridge domain subnets. However, the packet itself is not dropped and will be forwarded to the fabric. This will result in such IP addresses getting learned as remote endpoints on other ToRs.

15.0(2e) and later

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SAN boot over a virtual Port Channel or traditional Port Channel does not work.

15.0(2e) and later

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A policy-based redirect (PBR) policy to redirect IP traffic also redirects IPv6 neighbor solicitation and neighbor advertisement packets.

15.0(2e) and later

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The front port of the QSA and GLC-T 1G module has a 10 to 15-second delay as it comes up from the insertion process.

15.0(2e) and later

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If you have only one spine switch that is part of the infra WAN and you reload that switch, there can be drops in traffic. You should deploy the infra WAN on more than one spine switch to avoid this issue.

15.0(2e) and later

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Slow drain is not supported on FEX Host Interface (HIF) ports.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvb49451

In the case of endpoints in two different TOR pairs across a spine switch that are trying to communicate, an endpoint does not get relearned after being deleted on the local TOR pair. However, the endpoint still has its entries on the remote TOR pair.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvd11146

Bridge domain subnet routes advertised out of the Cisco ACI fabric through an OSPF L3Out can be relearned in another node belonging to another OSPF L3Out on a different area.

15.0(2e) and later

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After upgrading a switch, Layer 2 multicast traffic flowing across PODs gets affected for some of the bridge domain Global IP Outsides.

15.0(2e) and later

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There is a traffic blackhole that lasts anywhere from a few seconds to a few mins after a border leaf switch is restored.

15.0(2e) and later

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When downgrading a Cisco ACI fabric, the OSPF neighbors go down after downgrading the Cisco APICs from a 3.2 or later release to a pre-3.2 release. After the upgrade, the switches are still running a 13.2 or later release.

15.0(2e) and later

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During an upgrade on a dual-SUP system, the standby SUP may go into a failed state.

15.0(2e) and later

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There is a policy drop that occurs with L3Out transit cases.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvr12912

A switch reloads due to a sysmgr heartbeat failure and sysmgr HAP reset.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvr61096

In a port group that has ports of mixed speeds, the first port in the port group that has valid optics present and is not in the admin down state is processed. The ports that come up later are brought up if they are using the same speed; otherwise, they are put in the hw-disabled state.

For example, if ports 14 and 15 are up and are using the 100G speed, then if ports 13 and 16 are using the 40G speed, these ports will be put in the hw-disabled state. After reloading or upgrading, you might not have the same interfaces in the port group in the UP state and in the hw-disabled state as you did before the reload or upgrade.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvs75598

A link flap policy can be configured on Cisco switches that were released prior to the -EX switches. However, this feature does not work with such switches and no fault is raised in the Cisco APIC.

15.0(2e) and later

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When MPLS VRF stats (egress) is compared with Layer 2 interface egress stats, we can find that the packet count matches for both while there could be a discrepancy with the bytes count.

15.0(2e) and later

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The DEI value in a Layer 2 header of spanned Tx packets from an MPLS interface might not have the same value as the actual data path packet.

15.0(2e) and later

CSCvu42069

The event log shows VTEP tunnel down and up events. The down time and up time are the same, and there is no fault message.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

Load balancers and servers must be Layer 2 adjacent. Layer 3 direct server return is not supported. If a load balancer and servers are Layer 3 adjacent, then they have to be placed behind the Layer 3 out, which works without a specific direct server return virtual IP address configuration.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

IPN should preserve the CoS and DSCP values of a packet that enters IPN from the ACI spine switches. If there is a default policy on these nodes that change the CoS value based on the DSCP value or by any other mechanism, you must apply a policy to prevent the CoS value from being changed. At the minimum, the remarked CoS value should not be 4, 5, 6, or 7. If CoS is changed in the IPN, you must configure a DSCP-CoS translation policy in the APIC for the pod that translates queuing class information of the packet into the DSCP value in the outer header of the iVXLAN packet. You can also embed CoS by enabling CoS preservation. For more information, see the Cisco APIC and QoS KB article.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

The following properties within a QoS class under "Global QoS Class policies" should not be changed from their default value and is only used for debugging purposes:

■        MTU (default – 9216 bytes)

■        Queue Control Method (default – Dynamic)

■        Queue Limit (default – 1522 bytes)

■        Minimum Buffers (default – 0)

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

The modular chassis Cisco ACI spine nodes, such as the Cisco Nexus 9508, support warm (stateless) standby where the state is not synched between the active and the standby supervisor modules. For an online insertion and removal (OIR) or reload of the active supervisor module, the standby supervisor module becomes active, but all modules in the switch are reset because the switchover is stateless. In the output of the show system redundancy status command, warm standby indicates stateless mode.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

When a recommissioned APIC controller rejoins the cluster, GUI and CLI commands can time out while the cluster expands to include the recommissioned APIC controller.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

If connectivity to the APIC cluster is lost while a switch is being decommissioned, the decommissioned switch may not complete a clean reboot. In this case, the fabric administrator should manually complete a clean reboot of the decommissioned switch.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

Before expanding the APIC cluster with a recommissioned controller, remove any decommissioned switches from the fabric by powering down and disconnecting them. Doing so will ensure that the recommissioned APIC controller will not attempt to discover and recommission the switch.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

Multicast router functionality is not supported when IGMP queries are received with VxLAN encapsulation.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

IGMP Querier election across multiple Endpoint Groups (EPGs) or Layer 2 outsides (External Bridged Network) in a given bridge domain is not supported. Only one EPG or Layer 2 outside for a given bridge domain should be extended to multiple multicast routers if any.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

The rate of the number of IGMP reports sent to a leaf switch should be limited to 1000 reports per second.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

Unknown IP multicast packets are flooded on ingress leaf switches and border leaf switches, unless "unknown multicast flooding" is set to "Optimized Flood" in a bridge domain. This knob can be set to "Optimized Flood" only for a maximum of 50 bridge domains per leaf switch.

If "Optimized Flood" is enabled for more than the supported number of bridge domains on a leaf, follow these configuration steps to recover:

■        Set "unknown multicast flooding" to "Flood" for all bridge domains mapped to a leaf switch.

■        Set "unknown multicast flooding" to "Optimized Flood" on needed bridge domains.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

Traffic destined to Static Route EP VIPs sourced from N9000 switches (switches with names that end in -EX) might not function properly because proxy route is not programmed.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

An iVXLAN header of 50 bytes is added for traffic ingressing into the fabric. A bandwidth allowance of (50/50 + ingress_packet_size) needs to be made to prevent oversubscription from happening. If the allowance is not made, oversubscription might happen resulting in buffer drops.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

An IP/MAC Ckt endpoint configuration is not supported in combination with static endpoint configurations.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

An IP/MAC Ckt endpoint configuration is not supported with Layer 2-only bridge domains. Such a configuration will not be blocked, but the configuration will not take effect as there is no Layer 3 learning in these bridge domains.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

An IP/MAC Ckt endpoint configuration is not supported with external and infra bridge domains because there is no Layer 3 learning in these bridge domains.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

An IP/MAC Ckt endpoint configuration is not supported with a shared services provider configuration. The same or overlapping prefix cannot be used for a shared services provider and IP Ckt endpoint. However, this configuration can be applied in bridge domains having shared services consumer endpoint groups.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

An IP/MAC Ckt endpoint configuration is not supported with dynamic endpoint groups. Only static endpoint groups are supported.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

No fault will be raised if the IP/MAC Ckt endpoint prefix configured is outside of the bridge domain subnet range. This is because a user can configure bridge domain subnet and IP/MAC Ckt endpoint in any order and so this is not error condition. If the final configuration is such that a configured IP/MAC Ckt endpoint prefix is outside all bridge domain subnets, the configuration has no impact and is not an error condition.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

Dynamic deployment of contracts based on instrImmedcy set to onDemand/lazy not supported; only immediate mode is supported.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

When a server and load balancer are on the same endpoint group, make sure that the Server does not generate ARP/GARP/ND request/response/solicits. This will lead to learning of LB virtual IP (VIP) towards the Server and defeat the purpose of DSR support.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

Direct server return is not supported for shared services. Direct server return endpoints cannot be spread around different virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) contexts.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

Configurations for a virtual IP address can only be /32 or /128 prefix.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

Client to virtual IP address (load balancer) traffic always will go through proxy-spine because fabric data-path learning of a virtual IP address does not occur.

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

GARP learning of a virtual IP address must be explicitly enabled. A load balancer can send GARP when it switches over from active-to-standby (MAC changes).

15.0(2e) and later

N/A

Learning through GARP will work only in ARP Flood Mode.

15.0(2e) and later

N9K-C9508

Downgrading a Cisco N9K-C9508 spine switch that has the Cisco N9K-C9508-FM-G fabric module to a pre-15.0(2) release is not supported.

N9K-X9736C-FX

1-Gigabit QSA is not supported on ports 1/29-36. This line card supports the ability to add a fifth Fabric Module to the Cisco N9K-C9504 and N9K-C9508 switches. The fifth Fabric Module can only be inserted into slot 25.

N9K-C9508-FM-G

The following information applies to this fabric module:

■        For maximum bandwidth, 5 fabric modules are required.

■        The -G fabric modules require the N9K-C9508-FAN2 fan trays for operation.

■        You must have all three fans running at all times. You must power off the chassis to change the fans and fabric modules.

N9K-C9348GC-FXP

This switch supports the following PSUs:

■        NXA-PAC-350W-PI

■        NXA-PAC-350W-PE

■        NXA-PAC-1100W-PI

■        NXA-PAC-1100W-PE

The following information applies to this switch:

■        Incoming FCOE packets are redirected by the supervisor module. The data plane-forwarded packets are dropped and are counted as forward drops instead of as supervisor module drops.

■        When a Cisco N9K-C9348GC-FXP switch has only one PSU inserted and connected, the PSU status for the empty PSU slot will be displayed as "shut" instead of "absent" due to a hardware limitation.

■        The PSU SPROM is not readable when the PSU is not connected. The model displays as "UNKNOWN" and status of the module displays as "shutdown."

N9K-C93180LC-EX

This switch has the following limitations:

■        The top and bottom ports must use the same speed. If there is a speed mismatch, the top port takes precedence and bottom port will be error disabled. Both ports both must be used in either the 40 Gbps or 10 Gbps mode.

■        Ports 26 and 28 are hardware disabled.

■        This release supports 40 and 100 Gbps for the front panel ports. The uplink ports can be used at the 100 Gbps speed.

■        Port profiles and breakout ports are not supported on the same port.

N9K-C9364C

You can deploy multipod or Cisco ACI Multi-Site separately (but not together) on the Cisco N9K-9364C switch starting in the 3.1 release.  You can deploy multipod and Cisco ACI Multi-Site together on the Cisco N9K-9364C switch starting in the 3.2 release.

A 930W-DC PSU (NXA-PDC-930W-PE or NXA-PDC-930W-PI) is supported in redundancy mode if 3.5W QSFP+ modules or passive QSFP cables are used and the system is used in 40C ambient temperature or less; for other optics or a higher ambient temperature, a 930W-DC PSU is supported only with 2 PSUs in non-redundancy mode.

1-Gigabit QSA is not supported on ports 1/49-64.

This switch supports the following PSUs:

■                    NXA-PAC-1200W-PE

■                    NXA-PAC-1200W-PI

■                    N9K-PUV-1200W

■                    NXA-PDC-930W-PE

■                    NXA-PDC-930W-PI

N9K-C9316D-GX

1G and 100MB speeds are not supported.

N9K-C93180YC-EX

The following information applies to this switch:

■        The following FEC modes are not supported on N9K-C93180YC-EX ports 1 through 48 when running in 25G speed:

o    cl91-rs-fec

o    cons16-rs-fec

o    ieee-rs-fec

■        Auto-negotiation is not supported if you convert port 51 or 52 to a downlink and you have 40/100G copper cables connected.

N9K-C93180YC-FX

Auto-negotiation is not supported if you convert port 51 or 52 to a downlink and you have 40/100G copper cables connected.

N9K-C9336C-FX2

The following information applies to this switch:

■        On older N9K-C9336C-FX2 switches, auto-negotiation does not work on port eth1/4. You can check whether your switch is older by using the following command:

ifav124-leaf5# cat /sys/kernel/cisco_board_info/hw_change_bits

0x0

Output of "0x0" indicates an older switch that has this limitation.

■        You can apply a breakout configuration on ports 1 through 34, which can give up to 136 (34*4) server or downlink ports.

■        Port profiles and breakouts are not supported on the same port. However, you can apply a port profile to convert a fabric port to a downlink, and then apply a breakout configuration.

■        If you apply a breakout configuration on 34 ports, you must configure a port profile on the ports first, which requires you to reboot the leaf switch.

■        If you apply a breakout configuration to a leaf switch for multiple ports at the same time, it can take up to 10 minutes for the hardware of 34 ports to be programmed. The ports remain down until the programming completes. The delay can occur for a new configuration, after a clean reboot, or during switch discovery.

■        Ports 7 through 32 have a link bring up time of less than 2 seconds with QSFP-100G-LR4 and QSFP-40/100G-SRBD optics. For all other ports, the link up time for these optics is between 5 to 14 seconds. In the following situations, the link bring up time will also be greater than 2 seconds:

■        After reloading the Top-of-Rack (ToR) switch

■        When using port optical insertion and removal (OIR)

■        When performing bulk flaps of ports on the ToR switch

N9K-C93600CD-GX

This switch has the following limitations:

■        Auto-negotiation is not supported with 10G speed on ports 1 through 24.

■        For ports 1 through 24, every 4 ports (1-4, 5-8, 9-12, and so on, referred to as a "quad") will operate at a fixed speed. That is, all 4 ports will operate in 10G, or 40G, or 100G; you cannot mix the speeds.

■        Mixed speeds of 10G and 40G, or 10G and 100G, or 40G and 100G in a quad is not supported. Based on the port bring up sequence, the port in the quad where the speed mismatch is detected will be HW disabled.

■        If there is a speed mismatch in a quad even though the ports are configured in the disabled state, the working links in that quad might get into the HW disabled state upon upgrading or reloading, as the mixed speed is brought up first before admin down config is pushed. To avoid this issue, you must manually use the shut and no shut commands on the working ports to bring up the links. For more information, see bug CSCvr61096.

■        Ports 25-26 and ports 27-28 (port groups of 2 ports each) will operate in a fixed speed within the respective group, and you cannot mismatch the speed.

■        Uplink ports 29 to 36 do not have a mixed speed restriction; you can toggle the speed for the bidirectional ports.

■        For ports 1 to 28, even if you convert any ports to uplink with bidirectional optics, you cannot toggle the speed, as it will introduce mixed speeds and will disturb the neighboring ports.

■        For ports 1 to 28, if any of the ports are converted to uplink with bidirectional optics, the ports will stay in the not connected state if the peer is a 40G link.

■        4X10  and 4X25 breakout is supported on ports 25-28 and 29-34 (port profile converted downlinks).

■        Ports 25-26 and 27-28 form respective port pairs, and each pair can operate with 4X10, 10G, or 4X25G speed.

■        This switch does not support 4X100 breakout in this release.

■        The Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) will spike and the console can hang if a port channel or vPC exists when overlying breakout ports are deleted. To avoid this issue, delete the PC or vPC before deleting the overlying breakout policy.

■        1G and 100MB speeds are not supported.

N9K-C9364C-GX

This switch has the following limitations:

■        Auto-negotiation is not supported with 10G speed on ports 1 through 64.

■        The switch will power down in 2 minutes after the first fan failure. The switch can be powered up only after replacing the failed fan.

■        For ports 1 through 64, every 4 ports (1-4, 5-8, 9-12, and so on, referred to as a "quad") will operate at a fixed speed. That is, all 4 ports will operate in 10G, or 40G, or 100G; you cannot mix the speeds.

■        Mixed speeds of 10G and 40G, or 10G and 100G, or 40G and 100G in a quad is not supported. Based on the port bring up sequence, the port in the quad where the speed mismatch is detected will be HW disabled.

■        If there is a speed mismatch in a quad even when the ports are configured in the disabled state, the working links in that quad might get into the HW disabled state upon upgrading and reloading because the mixed speed is brought up first before the admin down configuration is pushed. As a result, you must manually perform the shut and no shut commands on the ports to bring up the links.

■        Breakout of 4x25G or 4X10G ports is not supported.

■        There is a lane selector button on the hardware. The button is used for the breakout port LED status. Because breakout is not supported, this button does nothing.

■        1G and 100MB speeds are not supported.

■        All 4 fans must be operational, otherwise the switch will power down due to a fan policy trigger.

N9K-C9508-FAN2

You must have either the N9K-C9508-FM-G or the C9508-FAN-PWR in every fabric slot. This is because each fan tray needs two power convertors (from 12V to 50V) to provide enough power.

N9K-C93108TC-FX

Switch

Yes

No

N9K-C93180YC-FX

Switch

Yes

No

N9K-c93216TC-FX2

Switch

Yes

No

N9K-C93240YC-FX2

Switch

Yes

No

N9K-C9332C

Switch

Yes

Yes, only on the last 8 ports

N9K-C93360YC-FX2

Switch

Yes

No

N9K-C9336C-FX2

Switch

Yes

No

N9K-C9348GC-FXP

Switch

Yes, only with 10G+

No

N9K-C9364C

Switch

Yes

Yes, only on the last 16 ports

N9K-X9736C-FX

Line Card

Yes

Yes, only on the last 8 ports