Hardware Requirements For DCNM Fabrics
Spine Switch Requirements
The following table summarizes the hardware requirements for EVPN Multi-Site Architecture:
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Cisco Nexus 9300 EX platform
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Cisco Nexus 9300 FX platform
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Cisco Nexus 9300 FX2 platform
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Cisco Nexus 9300-GX platform
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Cisco Nexus 9332C platform
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Cisco Nexus 9364C platform
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Cisco Nexus 9500 platform with X9700-EX line card
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Cisco Nexus 9500 platform with X9700-FX line card
The hardware requirements for the site-internal BGP Route Reflector (RR) and VTEP of a VXLAN BGP EVPN site remain the same as those without the EVPN Multi-Site Border Gateways (BGW). This document does not cover the hardware and software requirements for the VXLAN EVPN site-internal network.