1. SUPERVISOR 2 MODULE Quad Core – 2.12 GHz NX-OS software version 6.1 (or better) Required 12 GB of memory (NVRAM – 2 MB battery backup) CMP not supported

2. SUPERVISOR 2E MODULE 2 - Quad Cores – 2.12 GHz NX-OS software version 6.1 (or better) Required 32 GB of memory (NVRAM – 2 MB battery backup) CMP not supported Support for 45 fabric extender modules (Requires 2E)

3. Supervisor Comparison

4. SUPERVISOR 2/2E Front Panel

5. VDC Support on Sup2/2E CPU Shares ( VDC control groups) Enables allocation of specified amounts of the switch’s CPU to a specific VDC Enables prioritization of VDCs and helps ensure that critical VDCs have access to the CPU Prevents lower-priority VDCs from negatively affecting higher-priority VDCs. Number of VDC’s Supported 1 admin VDC on Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor 2 and Supervisor 2E 8 VDCs on Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Supervisor 2E

6. F2 Line Card Need Cisco NX-OS 6.0 or later Need Fabric-2 Module Two 55 GB traces to each fabric module – Up to 550 Gbps in each direction May not mix modules in VDC when using F2 line cards. All I/O modules must be F2’s Performs routing

7. 4 ports per SoC Performance 720-mpps L2 and L3 forwarding capacity for both IPv4 and IPv6 packets 16,384 per SoC, and up to 196,608 per module (depending on VLAN MAC address entries allocation VLAN 4096 simultaneous VLANs per virtual device context (VDC) IPv4 entries 32,768 per SoC IPv6 entries 16,384 per SoC Adjacency entries 16,384 per SoC 16,384 per SoC, and up to 196,608 per module (depending on ACL type and ACL interface configuration) Policers 1024 per SoC COPP Supported NetFlow Up to 256 programmable sampling rates fabric interface Switch fabric interface 550 Gbps in each direction distributed across up to five fabric modulesQue Queues per port Ingress (4q1t and 2q1t) Egress (1p3q1t, 2p2q1t, and 3p1q1t) F2 Line Card - Switch On Chip

8. 7000 M2-Series Module 24-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Module with XL Option Product compatibility: support in all 7000 Series chassis and w/Fabric-1 and Fabri-2 Modules Software Compatibility: NX-OS Release 6.1 or later Queues per port: Ingress: 8 queues and 2 thresholds (RX:8q2t) Egress: 1 strict priority queue, 7 deficit-weighted round- robin (DWRR) queues, and 4 thresholds (TX: 1p7q4t) Port buffers: Ingress – 5.21 MB per port Egress – 5.21 MB per port

9. Next Generation 100G & 40G M2 Line Cards and 6904 Port Number for Nexus 7000 based on fully populated 7018