High-Density, Compact Form Factor

Cisco Nexus 6000 Series switches are designed to deliver high density 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and 40 GE in an energy efficient, compact form factor. It offers a comprehensive integrated Layer 2 and Layer 3 feature set. That makes Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches ideal for space constrained, high density, and high performance deployments in traditional, virtualized, and cloud environments.

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Cisco Nexus 6004, along with the new Cisco Nexus 2248PQ, offers a solution to manage large pool of 10 GE servers. With the introduction of 40 GE technology on these platforms, we can build a robust fabric that can scale significantly to meet our data center growth in the coming years.

- Anshuman Kanwar,

Director of Network Services, Citrix Online.com

Features and Capabilities

The comprehensive Cisco NX-OS feature set and scalability of the Cisco Nexus 6000 Series deliver high performance, operational efficiency, and design flexibility using extensive programmability. They form part of the foundation for the Cisco Unified Fabric.

Benefits include:

High Scalability and Performance

Up to 384, 10 Gbps or 96, 40 Gbps line rate, Layer 2 and Layer 3 ports in four-rack units (RU)
Up to 1536, 1 or 10 GE server ports with the Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders (FEX)
Cisco FabricPath support for scalable Layer 2 networks

Operational Efficiency

Advanced analytics tool kit with buffer and latency monitoring
Single point of management with FEX architecture
Power on auto provisioning (PoAP)

Agility

Programmability - Python scripting, TCL scripting, the Cisco One Platform Kit (onePK) (support in future software release)
48 fixed 40 G ports with four expansion slots for added scale
Support for 10 G and 40 G Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)