Are you familiar the Cisco Nexus core switch platform- the 7000 series and the newer 7700 series? What’s the relationship between them? What’s the difference between them? What are the main features of them?
In this article, we will compare the main hardware capabilities of Cisco Nexus 7000 and 7700 Series models, including Supervisors, M-Series I/O Module, F-Series I/O Modules and main Chassis.
Compare Supervisors
| Supervisors | Nexus 7700 Supervisor 2E | Nexus 7000 Supervisor 2E | Nexus 7000 Supervisor 2 | Nexus 7000 Supervisor 1 |
| CPU | Dual Quad-Core Xeon | Dual Quad-Core Xeon | Quad-Core Xeon | Dual-Core Xeon |
| Speed (GHz) | 2.13 | 2.13 | 2.13 | 1.66 |
| Memory (GB) | 32 | 32 | 12 | 8 |
| Flash memory | USB | USB | USB | Compact Flash |
| Fibre Channel over Ethernet on F2 module | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| CPU share | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Virtual Device Contexts (VDCs) | 8+1 admin VDC | 8+1 admin VDC | 4+1 admin VDC | 4 |
| Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) support | 64 FEX/3072 ports | 64 FEX/3072 ports | 32 FEX/1536 ports | 32 FEX/1536 ports |
| Connectivity Management Processor (CMP) | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | Supported |
M-Series I/O Module Comparison
| M-Series I/O Modules | N7K- M148GS -11L | N7K- M148GT -11L | N7K- M108X2 -12L | N7K- M132XP -12L | N7K- M224XP -23L | N7K- M206FQ -23L | N7K- M202CF -22L |
| Line card family | M1 | M1 | M1 | M1 | M2 | M2 | M2 |
| Ports (number and type) | 48, 1 GE | 48, 10/100/1000 | 8, 10 GE | 32, 10 GE | 24, 10 GE | 6, 40 GE | 2, 40/100 GE |
| Interface type | SFP | RJ45 | X2 | SFP+ | SFP+ | QSFP+ | CFP |
| Fabric bandwidth (Gbps) | 46 | 46 | 80 | 80 | 240 | 240 | 200 |
| Performance (Mpps) | 60 | 60 | 120 | 60 | 120 | 120 | 120 |
| NetFlow | Full/ sampled | Full/ sampled | Full/ sampled | Full/ sampled | Full/ sampled | Full/ sampled | Full/ sampled |
| FEX support | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual PC (vPC) support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| QinQ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MPLS support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| FCoE, FabricPath support | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| IEEE 1588 PTP | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PONG | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
F-Series I/O Modules
| F-Series I/O Modules | N7K-F248XP-25E | N7K-F248XT-25E | N7K-F348XP-25 | N7K-F312FQ-25 | N7K-F306CK-25 | N77-F348XP-23 | N77-F324FQ-25 | N77-F312CK-26 |
| Line card family | F2e | F2e | F3 | F3 | F3 | F3 | F3 | F3 |
| Chassis supported | Cisco Nexus 7000 | Cisco Nexus 7000 | Cisco Nexus 7000 | Cisco Nexus 7000 | Cisco Nexus 7000 | Cisco Nexus 7700 | Cisco Nexus 7700 | Cisco Nexus 7700 |
| Ports (number and type) | 48 ports, 1 and 10 GE | 48 ports, 1 and 10 GE | 48 port 1 and 10 GE | 12 port 40 GE | 6 port 100 GE | 48 port 1 and 10 GE | 24 port 40 GE | 12 port 100 GE |
| Interface type | SFP, SFP+ | RJ45 | SFP, SFP+ | Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Plus (QSFP+), Bidirectional (Bidi) | Cisco CPAK | SFP, SFP+ | QSFP+, Bidi | Cisco CPAK |
| Fabric bandwidth (Gbps) | 480 | 480 | 480 | 480 | 600 | 480 | 960 | 1200 |
| Performance (Mpps) | 720 | 720 | 720 | 720 | 900 | 720 | 1440 | 1800 |
| NetFlow | Sampled | Sampled | Sampled | Sampled | Sampled | Sampled | Sampled | Sampled |
| Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual Port Channel (vPC) support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FabricPath support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Layer 3 interface | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fibre Channel over Ethernet (CoE), FabricPath support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV), Cisco Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP), Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VXLAN/EVPN | Hardware Ready | Hardware Ready | Hardware Ready | Hardware Ready | Hardware Ready | Hardware Ready | Hardware Ready | Hardware Ready |
| M-Series Interoperability in same VDC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Main Chassis Cisco Nexus 7000/7700 Comparison
| Chassis | 7000 4-slot | 7000 9-slot | 7000 10-slot | 7000 18-slot | 7700 2-slot | 7700 6-slot | 7700 10-slot | 7700 18-slot |
| Supervisor redundancy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| I/O module slots | 2 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 16 |
| Bandwidth per slot (Gbps) | 440 Gbps | 550 Gbps | 550 Gbps | 550 Gbps | 1.3Tbps | 1.3 Tbps | 1.3 Tbps | 1.3 Tbps |
| Switching capacity (Tbps) | 1.92 | 7.7 | 8.8 | 17.6 | 5 | 21 | 42 | 83 |
| 1 GE port density | 96 | 336 | 384 | 768 | 48 | 192 | 384 | 768 |
| 10 GE port density | 96 | 336 | 384 | 768 | 48 | 192 | 384 | 768 |
| 40 GE port density | 24 | 84 | 96 | 192 | 24 | 96 | 192 | 384 |
| 100 GE port density | 4 | 14 | 16 | 32 | 12 | 48 | 96 | 192 |
| Rack space (RU) | 7 | 14 | 21 | 25 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 26 |
| Airflow | Side-rear | Side-side | Front-back | Side-side | Front-back | Front-back | Front-back | Front-back |
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