Description
High Availability Features and Configurations
The N3K-C3064-X-ZM-2B Cisco Nexus switch is a high-performance, low-latency, and energy-efficient switch that offers high availability and scalability for data center networks. It supports a wide range of features and configurations that enable seamless network connectivity and ensure network uptime. Here are some of the high availability features and configurations of the N3K-C3064-X-ZM-2B Cisco Nexus switch:
- Redundant Power Supplies: The N3K-C3064-X-ZM-2B switch comes with two hot-swappable and redundant power supplies that can provide power to the switch in case one power supply fails. This ensures that the switch remains powered and operational in case of power supply failure.
- Hot-Swappable Fans: The switch is equipped with four hot-swappable fans that provide cooling to the switch. These fans can be replaced while the switch is still operational, ensuring continuous operation and availability.
- Virtual Port-Channel (vPC): The vPC feature allows multiple links to be combined into a single logical link that provides higher bandwidth and redundancy. This feature enables a network to have multiple paths to a device, ensuring that there is always a backup path in case one path fails.
- In-Service Software Upgrades (ISSU): ISSU allows software upgrades to be performed without disrupting the network. This feature enables the switch to be upgraded to a new software version while the network continues to operate, ensuring network availability during the upgrade process.
- Spanning Tree Protocol (STP): The N3K-C3064-X-ZM-2B switch supports STP, which is a protocol that prevents network loops by disabling redundant links. STP ensures that there is always a single path between devices, ensuring network availability.
- Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): LACP is a protocol that enables the aggregation of multiple links into a single logical link. This feature provides higher bandwidth and redundancy, ensuring network availability in case of link failure.
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP): VRRP is a protocol that allows multiple routers to work together to present the appearance of a single virtual router to the hosts on a LAN. This feature provides redundancy and failover capabilities, ensuring network availability in case of router failure.
Security Features and Capabilities
The N3K-C3064-X-ZM-2B Cisco Nexus switch is a high-performance 52-port managed switch designed for data center networking applications. It is equipped with advanced security features and capabilities to provide secure and reliable network access to users and devices.
Some of the key security features and capabilities of this switch include:
- Secure Boot and Image Signing: This feature ensures that the switch boots using only a verified and authenticated software image, preventing unauthorized software from being installed.
- Role-based Access Control (RBAC): The switch supports RBAC, which allows administrators to define user roles and assign permissions to access specific switch resources based on their roles. This helps to restrict unauthorized access and ensure network security.
- Multilevel Security: The switch provides multiple layers of security, including 802.1X authentication, MACsec encryption, and port security, to protect against unauthorized access, data interception, and other security threats.
- Network Segmentation: The switch supports VLANs and Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) to create isolated network segments and prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data.
- Threat Defense: The switch includes Cisco’s threat defense capabilities, such as Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR), to identify and block malicious traffic on the network.
- Quality of Service (QoS): The switch provides QoS features, including traffic shaping and priority queuing, to ensure that critical network traffic receives priority treatment.
Quality of Service (QoS) Support
The N3K-C3064-X-ZM-2B Cisco Nexus 52 Ports Managed Switch is designed to provide high-performance connectivity and QoS support to meet the demands of modern data centers. QoS refers to the ability of a network to prioritize certain types of traffic over others to ensure that critical applications receive the necessary bandwidth and latency requirements to function properly.
The N3K-C3064-X-ZM-2B switch supports a variety of QoS mechanisms, including traffic shaping, traffic policing, and classification. Traffic shaping allows administrators to control the rate at which specific types of traffic are transmitted, while traffic policing enables them to limit the amount of traffic that is allowed to enter or exit the network. Classification allows administrators to identify and prioritize different types of traffic, based on their specific requirements.
The N3K-C3064-X-ZM-2B switch also supports various QoS protocols, including Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP), Class of Service (CoS), and Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED). These protocols allow administrators to prioritize traffic based on a variety of factors, such as the source or destination of the traffic, the type of application being used, or the importance of the data being transmitted.
General Information:
- Manufacturer Cisco Systems, Inc
- Manufacturer Part Number N3K-C3064-X-ZM-2B
- Brand Name Cisco
- Product Line Nexus
- Product Series 3000
- Product Model 3064-X
- Product Name Nexus 3064-X Layer 3 Switch
- Product Type Layer 3 Switch
Interfaces/Ports
- Token Ring Port No
- LRE Port No
- Uplink Port No
- Bypass No
- Modular No
- Management Port Yes
- USB Yes
- Port/Expansion Slot Details 4 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet Expansion Slot
- Port/Expansion Slot Details 48 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet Expansion Slot
Media & Performance
- Ethernet Technology 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- Ethernet Technology 40 Gigabit Ethernet
I/O Expansions
- Number of Total Expansion Slots 52
- Expansion Slot Type SFP+
- Expansion Slot Type QSFP+
- Number of SFP+ Slots 48
Network & Communication
- Layer Supported 2
Management & Protocols
- Manageable Yes
- Management VLAN
- Syslog
- SNMP v1, v2c, v3
- CLI
- QoS
- DHCP
- Telnet
- MIB
- sFlow
- RMON
- Memory
- Flash Memory 2 GB
Power Description
- PoE (RJ-45) Port No
- Input Voltage 110 V AC
- Input Voltage 220 V AC
- Power Source Power Supply
- Redundant Power Supply Yes
Miscellaneous
- Package Contents Nexus 3064-X Layer 3 Switch
- 2 x Power Supply
- Certifications & Standards IEEE Standards:
- 802.1D
- 802.1p
- 802.1Q
- 802.1s
- 802.1w
- 802.3z
- 802.3ad
- 802.3ae
- 802.3ba
- 802.3an
- 802.1ab
- Safety:
- UL 60950-1
- CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1
- EN 60950-1
- IEC 60950-1
- AS/NZS 60950-1
- GB4943
- EMC:
- 47CFR Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A
- AS/NZS CISPR22 Class A
- CISPR22 Class A
- EN55022 Class A
- ICES003 Class A
- VCCI Class A
- EN61000-3-2
- EN61000-3-3
- KN22 Class A
- CNS13438 Class A
- CISPR24
- EN300386
- KN24
- Green Compliant Yes
- Green Compliance Certificate/Authority RoHS-5





