Product Overview

In today's data centers virtualization deployments have become commonplace and this trend is increasing rapidly with the availability of 10 Gigabit Ethernet servers at attraction prices. The combination of increased adoption of these servers and applications with higher bandwidth requirements is increasing the need for dense 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switching. Moreover data center architecture is evolving as customers seek to build large-scale nonblocking fabrics to accommodate different applications.

The Cisco Nexus^® 6001 Switch is part of a robust fabric that can scale significantly to meet data center growth delivering architectural flexibility that enables any data center to be a more agile cost-effective and efficient environment. The Cisco Nexus 6001 Switch is an important component of the Cisco^® Unified Data Center architecture complementing existing Cisco Nexus switches. The Cisco Nexus 6001 is an energy-efficient switch that offers high port density in one rack unit (1RU) supports 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) provides integrated Layer 2 and 3 features at wire speed and offers low latency of approximately 1 microsecond for any packet size. With a choice of front-to-back (port-side exhaust) and back-to-front (port-side intake) airflow options the switch is designed for a broad range of traditional data center and large-scale virtualized cloud deployments.

The Cisco Nexus 6001 Switch runs the industry-leading Cisco NX-OS Software operating system providing customers with features and capabilities that are widely deployed around the world. Cisco NX-OS Software is a purpose-built data center operating system designed for performance resiliency scalability manageability and programmability. It meets Ethernet and storage networking requirements providing a robust and comprehensive feature set that can meet the demanding requirements of virtualization and automation in present and future data centers. The Cisco enhanced fabric solution allows the transparent integration of the virtual and physical devices on a unified network. In addition the comprehensive Cisco NX-OS service set can be used to create unique innovations for customized solutions.