Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Release Notes Release 4.0(1a)N1(1a) (OL-16601-01 G0, April 2009)

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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Release Notes, Release 4.0(1a)N1(1a)
OL-16601-01
Contents
Contents
This document includes the following sections:
• Introduction, page 2
• New and Changed Features in Cisco NX-OS Release 4.0(1a)N1(1a), page 3
• Release 4.0(1a)N1(1a) Upgrade and Downgrade Issues, page 4
• Changes to the FCoE Model and Related Configuration, page 8
• Limitations, page 10
• Caveats, page 12
• Cisco Fabric Manager, page 24
• Related Documentation, page 26
• Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request, page 26
Introduction
The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switches comprise a family of line-rate, low-latency, lossless 10-Gigabit
Ethernet, Cisco Data Center Ethernet, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switches for data center
applications. The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series includes the Cisco Nexus 5020 Switch and the Cisco Nexus
5010 Switch.
The Cisco Nexus 5000 switch hardware is described in the following topics:
• Cisco Nexus 5020 Switch, page 2
• Cisco Nexus 5010 Switch, page 3
Cisco Nexus 5020 Switch
The Cisco Nexus 5020 is a 56-port switch. It is a two rack unit (2RU), 10-Gigabit Ethernet, Cisco Data
Center Ethernet, FCoE and Fibre Channel switch built to provide 1.04 terabit per second (Tbps)
throughput with very low latency.
It has the following features:
• Forty fixed 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Cisco Data Center Ethernet, and FCoE Small Form Factor
Pluggable Plus (SFP+) ports. Sixteen of the forty fixed ports support both GE and 10GE. The default
is 10GE.
• Two expansion module slots that can be configured to support up to 12 additional 10 Gigabit
Ethernet, Cisco Data Center Ethernet, and FCoE SFP+ ports, up to 16 Fibre Channel switch ports,
or a combination of both.
• Serial console port and an out-of-band 10/100/1000-Mbps Ethernet management port.
• 1+1 redundant, hot-pluggable power supplies.
• 4+1 redundant, hot-pluggable fan modules to provide highly reliable front-to-back cooling.
For additional information about the Cisco Nexus 5020 switch, see the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
Hardware Installation Guide.