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Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Overview
The Cisco Nexus Fabric Extenders (FEXs) support 100M/1G/10G Ethernet environments while allowing
transparent migration to 10-Gigabit Ethernet virtual machine aware unified fabric technologies. The
Cisco Nexus FEXs behave as remote I/O modules for a parent Cisco Nexus switch. The FEX is an
extension of the parent Cisco Nexus switch fabric, with the FEX and the parent Cisco Nexus switch
together forming a virtual modular system.
A Cisco Nexus FEX forwards all the traffic to the parent Cisco Nexus Switch over 10/40-Gigabit
Ethernet uplinks. Passing all traffic to the parent switch allows traffic forwarding to be controlled
according to policies established on the parent Cisco Nexus switch with a single point of management.
This chapter describes the Cisco Nexus Fabric Extenders (FEXs) and includes these sections:
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Using a Fabric Extender with a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series or Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switch,
page 1-1
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Using a Fabric Extender with a Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch, page 1-2
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Using a Fabric Extender with a Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch, page 1-3
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Power Supply and Fan Modules, page 1-5
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Ports and Connectors, page 1-7
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Chassis Features, page 1-7
Using a Fabric Extender with a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series or
Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switch
This section describes the Cisco Nexus fabric extenders (FEXs) supported by the Cisco Nexus 5000 and
6000 Series switches. For information about supported FEXs provided by other companies (B22 FEXs),
see the documentation provided by those companies.
To see which FEXs are supported by the Cisco Nexus 5000 and 6000 Series switches, see Table 1-1 .
Table 1-1 FEXs Supported by Cisco Nexus 5000 and 6000 Series Switches
FEX Model Cisco Nexus 5000 and 6000 Series Switches
Cisco Nexus 2348UPQ X
Cisco Nexus 2348TQ X
Cisco Nexus 2348TQ-E X