The following table compares hardware capabilities of Cisco Nexus 7000 Series models. Please consult your Cisco representative and refer to NX-OS release notes to confirm available software support and the appropriate Cisco NX-OS Software release required to enable these features.
| Nexus 7700 Supervisor 3E | Nexus 7700 Supervisor 2E | Nexus 7000 Supervisor 2E | Nexus 7000 Supervisor 2 | Nexus 7000 Supervisor 1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Broadwell DE (8 cores) | Dual Quad-Core Xeon | Dual Quad-Core Xeon | Quad-Core Xeon | Dual-Core Xeon |
| Speed (GHz) | 2.0 | 2.13 | 2.13 | 2.13 | 1.66 |
| Memory (GB) | 64 | 32 | 32 | 12 | 8 |
| Flash memory | USB | USB | USB | USB | Compact Flash |
| SSD | 240 GB | No | No | No | No |
| 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 | 8+1 admin VDC | 4+1 admin VDC | 4 |
| Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) support | 64 FEX/3072 ports | 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 | Not supported | Supported |
| N7K-M224XP-23L | N7K-M206FQ-23L | N7K-M202CF-22L | N7K-M348XP-25L | N7K-M324FQ-25L | N77-M348XP-23L | N77-M324FQ-25L | N77-M312CQ-26L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Line card family | M2 | M2 | M2 | M3 | M3 | M3 | M3 | M3 |
| 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) | 24 x 10 GE | 6 x 40 GE | 2 x 40/100 GE | 48 x 1/10 GE | 24 x 40 GE | 48 x 1/10GE | 24 x 40GE | 12 x 100G |
| Interface type | SFP+ | QSFP+ | CFP | SFP, SFP+ | QSFP+ | SFP, SFP+ | QSFP+ | QSFP28 |
| Fabric bandwidth (Gbps) | 240 | 240 | 200 | 480 | 550 | 480 | 960 | 1200 |
| Performance (Mpps) | 120 | 120 | 120 | 720 | 1440 | 720 | 1440 | 1800 |
| NetFlow | Full/ | Full/ | Full/ | |||||
| sampled | sampled | sampled | Sampled | Sampled | Sampled | Sampled | Sampled | |
| Virtual Port Channel (vPC) support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FabricPath | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VXLAN | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| BGP-EVPN | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Encryption | 128-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 128- and 256-bit | 128- and 256-bit | 128- and 256-bit | 128- and 256-bit | 128- and 256-bit |
| Cisco TrustSec | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FEX support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| QinQ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MPLS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) | No | No | No | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready |
| FCoE | No | No | No | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready |
| IEEE 1588 PTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready |
| PONG | Yes | Yes | Yes | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready | Hardware-ready |
| F-Series Interoperability in the same VDC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| N7K-F248XP-25E | N7K-F312FQ-25 | N7K-F306CK-25 | N77-F348XP-23 | N77-F324FQ-25 | N77-F312CK-26 | N77-F430CQ-36 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Line card family | F2e | F3 | F3 | F3 | F3 | F3 | F4 |
| Chassis supported | Cisco Nexus 7000 | Cisco Nexus 7000 | Cisco Nexus 7000 | Cisco Nexus 7700 | Cisco Nexus 7700 | Cisco Nexus 7700 | Cisco Nexus 7700 |
| Ports (number and type) | 48 ports, 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 | 30 Port 100GE |
| Interface type | SFP, SFP+ | Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Plus (QSFP+), Bidirectional (Bidi) | Cisco CPAK | SFP, SFP+ | QSFP+, Bidi | Cisco CPAK | QSFP28 |
| Fabric bandwidth (Gbps) | 480 | 480 | 600 | 480 | 960 | 1200 | 2400 |
| Performance (Mpps) | 720 | 720 | 900 | 720 | 1440 | 1800 | 3450 |
| NetFlow | Sampled | Sampled | Sampled | Sampled | Sampled | Sampled | Sampled |
| Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual Port Channel (vPC) support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Layer 3 interface | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV), Cisco Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP), Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VXLAN/EVPN | No | Hardware Ready | Hardware Ready | Hardware Ready | Hardware Ready | Hardware Ready | Yes |
| M-Series Interoperability in same VDC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 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 | 1.3 Tbps | 2.8 Tbps | 2.8 Tbps | 1.3 Tbps |
| Switching capacity (Tbps) | 1.92 | 7.7 | 8.8 | 17.6 | 5 | 23 | 45 | 90 |
| 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 | 60 | 120 | 240 | 480 |
| 100 GE port density | 12 | 42 | 48 | 96 | 60 | 120 | 240 | 480 |
| 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 |