Cisco Nexus 9364E-SG2 Switches Data Sheet

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Cisco Nexus® 9364E-SG2 switches are 64-port 800G fixed switches.

Product overview

Artificial-Intelligence and Machine-Learning (AI/ML) applications are being used increasingly in today’s data centers, and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches have the hardware and software capabilities to provide the right latency, congestion-management mechanisms, and telemetry to meet the requirements of those applications. Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches address the need for high-performance, power-efficient, compact switching in network infrastructures and are designed to support high-density 800G fabrics for next-generation leaf and spine designs.

Large-cloud and data-center networking teams require a flexible, reliable solution that efficiently manages, troubleshoots, and analyzes their IT infrastructure. In addition, they need security, automation, visibility, analytics, and assurance. Coupled with tools such as Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights for visibility and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller for automation, Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches are ideal platforms to build a high-performance AI/ML network fabric.

Cisco Nexus 9364E-SG2 switches introduce high-density 800G aggregation for the data center fabric. They also offer various lower port speeds and densities, including 400, 200, and 100 Gbps. The Cisco Nexus 9364E-SG2 switch is based on Cisco® Silicon One® technology, equipped to support next-generation cloud architecture.

The Cisco Nexus 9364E-SG2 are 2-Rack-Unit (2RU) 64-port 800 Gigabit Ethernet switches available in both QSFP-DD and OSFP form factors. They support 51.2 Tbps of bandwidth and provide 256MB of on-die packet buffer.

Features and benefits

Table 1.        Features and benefits

Feature

Benefit

Architectural flexibility

  Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches support Cisco NX-OS VXLAN EVPN, Cisco IP Fabric for Media, Cisco Nexus Data Broker, and IP routed on Ethernet switched Layer-2 fabrics, using a comprehensive set of unicast and multicast IPv6/IPv4 and Ethernet protocols.
  Purpose-built Cisco NX-OS Software operating system with comprehensive, proven innovations. The operating system is modular, with a dedicated process for each routing protocol – a design that isolates faults while increasing availability.
  Support for standards-based VXLAN EVPN fabrics, inclusive of hierarchical multisite support (Refer to VXLAN network with MP-BGP EVPN control plane for more information.)
  Three-tier BGP architectures, enabling horizontal, nonblocking IPv6 network fabrics at web scale.
  Comprehensive protocol support for Layer-3 (v4 and v6) unicast and multicast routing protocol suites.
  Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker provides customers complete observability into their network and solution(s) that can help them identify and mitigate security threats, realize and remediate performance bottlenecks, adhere to data compliance, and have insight into capacity-planning operations.

Extensive programmability

  Day-0 automation through Power On Auto Provisioning (POAP), drastically reducing provision time
  Industry-leading integrations for leading DevOps configuration management applications, such as Ansible. Extensive Native YANG, and industry-standard OpenConfig model support through RESTCONF/NETCONF/gNMI
  REST API interacting with Data Management Engine (DME)
  Model-driven telemetry, which enhances network observability
  Third-party application-hosting using Cisco Application Framework (CAF)

High scalability, flexibility, and security

  Flexible forwarding tables that support up to 512,000 shared entries
  Flexible shared ingress and egress of a maximum of 1536 ingress ACL/1024 egress ACL entries

AI/ML networking

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches support innovative congestion management and flow-control algorithms along with the right latency and telemetry to meet the design requirements of AI/ML fabrics.

  Dynamic Load Balancing (DLB) distributes traffic across multiple paths or links that have the same cost in terms of routing metrics.
  Priority Flow Control (PFC) is a key capability supported on Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches that prevents Ethernet frame drops by signaling, controlling, and managing Ethernet flows along a path by sending pause frames to appropriate senders.
  The platform also supports Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN), which provides end-to-end notification per IP flow by marking packets that experienced congestion, without dropping traffic. The platform is capable of tracking ECN statistics, including the number of marked packets that have experienced congestion.
  The platform offers lossless transport for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) with support of Data-Center-Bridging (DCB) protocols:

    Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) reserves bandwidth per priority class in network contention situations.

    Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBX) can discover and exchange priority and bandwidth information with endpoints.

  Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED) is a congestion-avoidance technique that allows Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches to detect and react to congestion in the network by marking flows that could cause congestion.
  The platform offers Cisco’s innovative intelligent buffer management, which offers the capability to distinguish between mice and elephant flows and apply different queue-management schemes to them based on their network-forwarding requirements in the event of link congestion.

Hardware and software high availability

  Virtual Port-Channel (vPC) technology provides Layer-2 multipathing through the elimination of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP).
  Capability to link fabrics in a VXLAN environment, eliminating the need for peer-to-peer vPC. The 128-way Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP) routing enables the use of Layer-3 fat-tree designs. This feature helps organizations prevent network bottlenecks, increase resiliency, and add capacity with little network disruption.
  Software-Maintenance Upgrades (SMUs) contain fixes for specific defects. They provide a quick resolution of critical issues.
  In-Service Software Upgrades (ISSUs) allow upgrades of device software while the switch continues to forward traffic. ISSUs reduce or eliminate the downtime typically caused by software upgrades.

The switches use hot-swappable Power-Supply Units (PSUs) and fans with N+1 redundancy.

Cisco Nexus Dashboard

Cisco Nexus Dashboard is a platform that transforms data-center and cloud-network operations through simplicity, automation, and analytics. Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC), Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights (NDI), Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO), and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker (NDDB) are integrated as services into Cisco Nexus Dashboard.

  Cisco Nexus Dashboard is included with all Cisco Nexus 9000 switch tiered licenses. Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller requires a Cisco Data Center Networking (DCN) Essentials license, Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator requires a Cisco DCN Advantage license, and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights requires a Cisco DCN Premier or a Cisco DCN Day-2 Ops add-on license.

Licensing

The default system software has a comprehensive Layer-2 security and management feature set. To enable additional functions, including Layer-3 IP unicast and IP multicast routing and Cisco Nexus Data Broker, you must install additional licenses. The Cisco Nexus 9364E-SG2 switch uses the XF3 class Cisco Data Center Network (Cisco DCN) Premier, Advantage, and Essentials subscription licenses. The licensing guide illustrates the software packaging and licensing available to enable advanced features. For the latest software release information and recommendations, refer to the release notes.

Product specifications

Table 2.        Cisco Nexus 9364E-SG2 Switches Specifications

Item

Cisco Nexus 9364E-SG2 switch

Technical

  64-port 800G QSFP-DD ports (N9364E-SG2-Q)
  64-port 800G OSFP ports (N9364E-SG2-O)
  Supports 2x400, and 8x100 breakout
  On-die buffer: 256MB fully shared
  System memory: 64GB
  SSD: 240 GB
  USB: 1 port
  RS-232 serial console ports: 1
  Management ports: 1
  CPU (N9364E-SG2-Q)

    Intel® Broadwell 4-core 2.4 GHz CPU

  CPU (N9364E-SG2-O)

    Intel Broadwell 8-core 2 GHz CPU

Power and cooling

  Power: 3000W HVAC/HVDC
  Hot-swappable, 4 fans, 3+1 redundancy
  Typical power: TBD
  Maximum power: 3000 W

Physical and environmental

  Dimensions (H x W x D): 3.43 x 17.3 x 24.7 in. (8.76 x 44.0 x 62.7 cm)
  Acoustics:

    Port-side intake:

   at 50% fan speed: 78.3 dBA

   at 70% fan speed: 86.9 dBA

   at 90% fan speed: 92.6 dBA

   at 100% fan speed: 93 dBA

  Operating temperature: 32 to 104F (0 to 40C)
  Nonoperating (storage temperature): -40 to 158F (-40 to 70C)
  Humidity: 5 to 95% (non-condensing)
  Altitude: 0 to 9,842 ft (0 to 3000m)
  Mean time between failure (MTBF): 129,110 hours

Table 3.        Cisco Nexus 9364E-SG2 switches power-supply specifications

Model

Cisco HVAC/HVDC

Output power

3000 W

Input voltage

90-140 AC

180-305 AC

190-400 DC

Input frequency

47–63 Hz

Connector

APP SAF-D-GRID Ultra Short 2006

Efficiency

80PLUS Platinum

Table 4.        Cisco Nexus 9364E-SG2 weight

Part number

Weight

N9364E-SGE2-Q/O without power supplies or fans

37.0 lbs (16.8 kg)

N9364E-SGE2-Q/O with power supplies and fans

45.5 lbs (20.6 kg)

PSU3KW-HVPI

1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)

FAN-PI-V4

1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)

Supported optics modules

For details on the optical modules available and the minimum software release required for each supported optical module, visit here.

Ordering information

Table 5.        Ordering information

Part #

Product Description

N9364E-SG2-Q

Cisco Nexus 9300 64p 800G switch w/ QSFP-DD

N9364E-SG2-Q=

Cisco Nexus 9300 64p 800G switch w/ QSFP-DD w/o power supply, fans

N9364E-SG2-O

Cisco Nexus 9300 64p 800G switch w/ OSFP

N9364E-SG2-O=

Cisco Nexus 9300 64p 800G switch w/ OSFP w/o power supply, fans

PSU3KW-HVPI

Cisco 3000W HV power module with port-side intake

PSU3KW-HVPI=

Cisco 3000W HV power module with port-side intake, spare

FAN-PI-V4

Cisco fan tray, port-side intake airflow

FAN-PI-V4=

Cisco fan tray, port-side intake airflow, spare

8K-2RU-KIT-S

Cisco 2RU fixed system installation kit short

8K-2RU-KIT-S=

Cisco 2RU fixed system installation kit short, spare

8K-2RU-KIT-L

Cisco 2RU fixed system installation kit long

8K-2RU-KIT-L=

Cisco 2RU fixed system installation kit long, spare

8K-2RU-2P-KIT

Cisco installation kit 2 posts

8K-2RU-2P-KIT=

Cisco installation kit 2 posts, spare

Warranty information

The Cisco Nexus 9364E-SG2 switch has a 1-year limited hardware warranty. The warranty includes hardware replacement with a 10-day turnaround from receipt of a Return Materials Authorization (RMA).

Product sustainability

Information about Cisco’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives and performance is provided in Cisco’s CSR and sustainability reporting.

Table 6.        Cisco environmental sustainability information

Sustainability topic

Reference

General

Information on product-material-content laws and regulations

Materials

Information on electronic waste laws and regulations, including our products, batteries, and packaging

WEEE Compliance

Information on product takeback and reuse program

Cisco Takeback and Reuse Program

Sustainability inquiries

Contact: csr_inquiries@cisco.com

Countries and regions supported

Table 6: Regulatory compliance

Power

Power

Table 3: Power-supply specifications

Material

Product packaging weight and materials

Contact: environment@cisco.com

Weight

Table 4. Weight

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