Cisco N7K-C7004-S2 Full Product Description

1. Short Overview

2. Official Bundle Composition Definition

1. Included factory hardware:
   • N7K-C7004 base 7RU 4-slot passive midplane empty chassis
   • 1× N7K-SUP2 Supervisor-2 fabric/control module (8GB RAM, 8GB compact flash, Xeon 2.13GHz CPU)
   • Integrated fixed multi-fan variable-speed cooling tray (built into chassis, no separate fan SKU needed)
   • Standard rack mounting rails, front cable management brackets, factory hardware documentation
2. ItemsNOT included (must purchase separately):
   • Hot-swappable AC/DC power supply modules (N7K-AC-6.0KW-WS / N7K-DC-6.0KW-WS; dual required for 1+1 redundancy)
   • Universal I/O line/service modules (F2/F2E 10G/40G Ethernet/FCoE switching cards, M2 multi-protocol FCIP/iSCSI service modules)
   • SFP+/QSFP optical transceivers for all port interfaces
   • Software feature licenses (IVR, OTV, FCoE, FICON, MPLS etc.)
3. Suffix explanation:
   • S2 = Single Supervisor 2 pre-installed (contrast to dual-sup bundle N7K-C7004-2K9; S2E variant uses upgraded Supervisor-2E)Cisco

3. Core Hardware Architecture & Key Differentiators

Chassis Slot Layout (4 total front slots, 7RU height)

• Slots 1,2: Two universal hot-swappable I/O line card slots (max 2 line cards loaded, peak 96×40G ports with dual N7K-F248-40GE)
• Slots 3,4: Dedicated supervisor slots; N7K-C7004-S2 ships with1 Sup2 in Slot3 (active), Slot4 empty for secondary standby supervisor upgrade later

Critical Hardware Advantages vs fixed switches & larger Nexus 7010

1. Distributed embedded fabric ASICs on every I/O line card — no separate external fabric modules required, simplifies maintenance and reduces rack space (compact 7RU vs 14RU Nexus 7010)Cisco
2. Side-to-back airflow: Cold air intake from left front side, hot exhaust rear power compartment (cold-aisle optimized; no hot-aisle reverse airflow variant)Cisco
3. Unified Nexus 7000 Gen2 platform compatibility: All F2/F2E/M2 I/O modules interchangeable with larger Nexus 7009/7010 directors for inventory consolidation
4. Converged LAN+SAN native hardware offload: Lossless PFC/DCBX FCoE, FC-NVMe tunneling, FICON mainframe storage integration without external gateway appliances
5. Full OIR hot-swap for supervisors, line cards, power supplies; no full chassis power cycle required for hardware replacement
6. Mid-size pod aggregation footprint: Ideal for medium virtualized data center top-of-row core, small multi-tenant PoP edge, mid enterprise campus root

High-Availability Design

• Power: Dual redundant 6000W PSU slots (1+1 N+1 redundancy; bundle ships without PSUs)
• Cooling: Integrated multi-fan tray; single fan failure triggers SNMP alert, chassis remains operational for hot-swap tray replacement
• Control plane: Single Sup2 active out of box; customer can add second Sup2 to enable stateful failover, non-disruptive ISSU firmware upgrades
• Fault isolation: VDC (virtual device context) for multi-tenant LAN separation; VSAN for FCoE storage segmentation, prevents broadcast storm leakage across logical domains
• NPV/NPIV edge mode: Offloads Fibre Channel host registration to upstream MDS SAN directors to reduce control-plane overhead

4. Performance Hardware Specifications

1. Full-chassis non-blocking throughput: 1.92 Tbps full-duplex
2. Maximum forwarding rate: 1920 Mpps wire-speed Layer 2/L3 switching
3. MAC address table: 128,000 entries
4. IPv4 unicast route scale: 128,000; IPv6 unicast: 64,000; multicast routes: 32,000
5. VDC maximum: 4 independent logical virtual switch partitions
6. Port-channel limit: 1024 logical trunks, up to 16 physical ports per PortChannel
7. Supported I/O module port density options:
   • N7K-F248XP-25E: 48×10G SFP+ (max 96×10G total chassis)
   • N7K-F248-40GE: 48×40G QSFP+ (max 96×40G total chassis)
   • N7K-M224XP-23L: 24×10G M2 service module with L4-L7 offload, FCIP/iSCSI gateway support
8. Supervisor-2 hardware specs: 2.13GHz Intel Xeon CPU, 8GB DRAM, 8GB internal compact flash storage, dual 1G out-of-band management Ethernet ports, serial + mini USB console interfaces

5. NX-OS Full Feature Set

Converged LAN & FCoE Storage Fabric

• VDC multi-tenant logical switch partitioning, PVLAN private VLAN isolation
• Complete lossless FCoE stack: PFC priority flow control, DCBX, VNTag virtual machine tagging, FC-NVMe tunneling
• VSAN virtual storage fabrics, WWN hard zoning + Auto-Zone auto-provisioning
• MSTP, LACP, vPC dual-active port-channel peer-link redundancy
• SPAN / RSPAN remote traffic analytics for storage/LAN troubleshooting
• NPV/NPIV FCoE edge virtualization for large SAN-LAN pod deployments

Multilayer Routing & Data Center Interconnect

• Dynamic routing: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP IPv4/IPv6
• VRF multi-tenant routing separation
• IVR Inter-VSAN Routing (licensed): Cross-VSAN storage data forwarding
• OTV Overlay Transport Virtualization: Layer 2 cross-data-center disaster recovery mobility
• LISP Locator/ID Separation Protocol: Multi-pod workload mobility
• MPLS, VPLS, VPWS carrier-grade multi-tenant transport
• FCIP tunnel hardware acceleration: Compression, write acceleration, tape pipelining for long-distance DR replication

QoS, Security & Management

• Four hardware priority queues per port for storage, VM data, management, backup traffic
• RBAC granular multi-tier admin access control, ISE integration
• SSHv2, SNMPv3, AES encrypted startup config, DH-CHAP ISL authentication
• FIPS 140-2 security compliance for regulated financial/government environments
• Cisco DCNM centralized converged LAN/SAN graphical management, REST API automation
• POAP zero-touch automatic provisioning, onboard Python scripting, streaming telemetry exports
• GOLD continuous hardware diagnostics without traffic interruption

6. Physical & Environmental Parameters

• Rack height: 7 RU (30.2 cm tall), standard 19-inch horizontal rack mount
• Dimensions (H×W×D): 30.2 cm × 44.45 cm × 60.96 cm; extended depth 73.66cm with cable guides
• Bare bundle weight (chassis + 1 Sup2 + fan tray): ~11.4 kg (25 lbs)
• Full loaded maximum weight (2 PSUs + 2×48-port line cards + dual supervisors): ~18.2 kg (40 lbs)
• Operating temperature: 0°C ~ 40°C (32°F ~ 104°F)
• Relative humidity: 10%–90% non-condensing
• Compliance: FCC Class A, UL 60950-1, CE, NEBS Level 3, RoHS

7. Typical Deployment Scenarios

1. Medium virtualized data center pod core aggregation: Deployed as pod top-of-row core; two 40G F2E line cards deliver 96×40G ports to connect FEX leaf extenders, all-flash FCoE storage, blade server racks; VDC splits production/test/backup logical fabrics.
2. Medium enterprise campus converged LAN/SAN root: Interconnects geographically distributed building Nexus 7004 edge switches via OTV cross-DC tunnels, built-in FCIP modules provide asynchronous disaster recovery replication between primary and backup data centers.
3. Small-to-medium service provider multi-tenant PoP edge: VDC logical partitioning isolates independent enterprise customer LAN/SAN fabrics on a single physical chassis, expandable line card slots support growing customer port count.
4. Legacy SAN-LAN hardware migration upgrade: Drop-in replacement for end-of-life Nexus 5000 FCoE switches, backward compatible with existing 10G SFP transceivers while adding 40G high-density expansion and modern NX-OS automation.
5. Centralized enterprise tape backup aggregation core: Dedicated backup fabric core using FCIP PortChannel trunks to primary production SANs for off-site tape archive replication, unused line card slots reserved for future encryption/replication service module additions.

8. Standard Package Contents of N7K-C7004-S2 Bundle

Separately Sold Required Components (Not Included)

• Dual N7K-AC-6.0KW-WS 6000W AC hot-swappable power supplies (mandatory for power redundancy)
• Optional second Supervisor-2 / Supervisor-2E for dual redundant control-plane failover
• Optional I/O line/service modules (N7K-F248XP-25E, N7K-F248-40GE, N7K-M224XP-23L, SSM storage service modules)
• SFP+ / QSFP optical transceivers for all line card Ethernet/FCoE interfaces
• Feature software licenses: IVR, OTV, FCoE, FICON, FCIP Extension, MPLS, IOA Acceleration, DMM Data Migration
• RS232 serial console cable, mini USB console cable, fiber/copper patch cords, rack cable management accessories

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