CISCO Nexus 9800 Series Switches Owner’s Manual

: June 5, 2024
: Cisco

Table of Contents

Introduction
Scope
Positioning
Supported Features
Software Releases
Platform Hardware
Additional Resources
Licensing
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Introduction

The Cisco Nexus 9800 Series modular switches support very high port density 400G and 100G line cards.
These line cards are based on Cisco Silicon One Q200 ASICs.

Scope

This document summarizes the current state of the Cisco Nexus 9800 Series product family, including the current software features and hardware products.

Positioning

The Cisco Nexus 9800 Series modular switch is optimally designed for use as a Layer 3 Spine in data center networking deployments, providing unparalleled scalability, performance, and reliability.

Supported Features

As of Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Release 10.4(3)F, Cisco Nexus 9800 modular switches support the following software features:
Network Interfaces and Speeds

400G, 100G, 40G, 4×100 Breakouts, 10G via CVR-QSFP-SFP10G (1G QSA is not supported)
Breakout (4×25 and 4x10G) options on N9K-X9836DM-A line card
Breakout (2x200G) for N9K-X9836DM-A and N9K-X98900CD-A (4×25 is not supported)
Breakout (4×25 and 4x10G) for N9K-X98900CD-A only (4×25 is not supported on some FEC types)
L3, Loopback, and Sub Interfaces
Single-hop BFD on routed port, routed-sub interface, breakout port & port-channel

Operating System, Network Protocols and Serviceability

Cisco Application Hosting Framework (CAF)
CDP
DHCP relay, POAP and PTP
LDAP, UDLD, DHCP, LLDP (Multi Neighbor and Port-channel)
LACP Layer 3 port-channel using default timer
LACP Fast timer
Layer 3 port-channel interface for SPAN and ERSPAN
Consistency Checker — Interfaces, Multicast, Unicast, ACL
Ethanalyzer
Generic Online Diagnostics (GOLD) — health monitoring and non-disruptive diagnostics of FabricConnectivityTest and FabricReachabilityTest.
NGOAM ping, traceroute, and pathtrace
PTP scale enhancement (144 per line card, 1024 per system)

Routing & Multicast

Hashing based on source/destination IP and L4 port number
128-way ECMP
IPv4 and IPv6 dynamic routing
Multicast L3 for IPv4 & IPv6
OSPFv2, OSPFv3, EIGRP, Basic BGP, and Advanced BGP
Route leak between VRFs
PIM
IP Fabric for Media
IGMP host proxy
MSDP
PTP Media Profile and One-Step Mode
VXLANVxLAN Anycast BGW, VXLAN NGOAM
VXLAN Multi-Site Anycast Border Gateway (BGW)
TRMv4 Multi-Site Anycast Underlay in Fabric and IR over DCI
Tenant Routed Multicast (v4)
SR MPLS (Layer 3 VPN, Layer 3 EVPN)
NGOAM ping, traceroute, and pathtrace
Layer 3 Port Channel BFD
Single hop BFD

Security and Access Control

AAA, RADIUS, TACACS+
ACL – Sup, CoPP
ACL/QoS scale
MACsec
RACL (Ingress-IPv4/IPv6 and Egress-IPv4/IPv6) with statistics
PBR

QoS and Monitoring

CoPP
QOS classification (ACL), QOS — Queuing and scheduling, Queuing Statistics
sFlow & sFlow Consistency Checker
iCAM
SNMP (MIBs — 400G Optic MIB, Switch MIB, Datapath MIBs, Interface MIB)
SPAN, ERSPAN

High Availability and Scalability

Dual-Supervisors support
GIR
Multi VRF

NOTE: No Layer 2 support is planned for Q200-based line cards. Contact your Cisco representative to confirm support for your required features.
NDFC Support
The Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) can provide management and automation for Cisco Nexus 9800 Series Switches.

Software Releases

Table 1. Software Releases

NX-OS Release	What’s New

10.4(3)F| Support is added for:
● VXLAN Multi-Site Anycast Border Gateway (BGW)
● TRMv4 Multi-Site Anycast Underlay in Fabric and IR over DCI
● Layer 3 Port Channel BFD
● Single hop BFD
● SR-MPLS
● NGOAM ping, traceroute, and pathtrace
● PTP scale enhancement (144 per line card, 1024 per system)
● 2x200GE breakout for N9K-X9836DM-A and N9K-X98900CD-A
● 4×10, 4×25 breakout for N9K-X98900CD-A only
10.4(2)F| Support is added for:
● Dual-Supervisors support on N9K-C9804
● IPv6 Multicast
● SPAN/ERSPAN on port-channel interface
This is the minimum recommended release for N9K-C9804
10.4(1)F| Support is added for:
● ACL/QoS scale (see the Verified Scalability Guide)
● Breakout (4×25 and 4x10G) options on N9K-X9836DM-A line card
● Dual-Supervisors support on N9K-C9808
● LACP Layer 3 port-channel using default timer
● LACP Fast timer
● 128-way ECMP
10.3(4a)M| Suppport is added for Nexus Dashboard Insights This is the recommended release for the 10.3 train
10.3(3)F| Support is added for:
● Cisco Application Hosting Framework (CAF)
● iCAM
● sFlow Consistency Checker
10.3(2)F| This is the minimum recommended release for N9K-C9800
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Platform Hardware

The Nexus 9800 Series includes two modular switch chassis:

The N9K-C9808, a 16-RU modular chassis with 8 line card slots
The N9K-C9804, a 10-RU modular chassis with 4 line card slots

The table below lists the currently available Nexus 9800 Series switches, line cards, and accessories. For expanded details about these hardware products, see:

Cisco Nexus 9800 Series Switches White Paper
Cisco Nexus 9800 Series Switches Data Sheet

Table 2. Platform Hardware

Product ID	Description
Switches
N9K-C9804	10-RU modular switch with slots for up to 4 line cards in addition

to two
supervisors, 8 fabric modules, 4 fan trays, and 2 power trays
N9K-C9808| 16-RU modular switch with slots for up to 8 line cards in addition to two
supervisors, 8 fabric modules, 4 fan trays, and 3 power trays
Line Cards and Fabric Modules
N9K-X9836DM-A| Cisco Nexus 9800 36-port 400G line card with line rate MACsec on all ports
N9K-X98900CD-A| Cisco Nexus 9800 14-port 400G and 34-port 100G line card with line rate
MACsec on 16 100G ports
N9K-C9808-FM-A| Cisco Nexus 9800 8-slot chassis fabric module
N9K-C9804-FM-A| Cisco Nexus 9800 4-slot chassis fabric module
Supervisors|
N9K-C9800-SUP-A| Cisco Nexus 9800 Supervisor card
Accessories|
N9K-C9808-FAN-A| Cisco Nexus 9800 8-slot chassis fan tray
N9K-C9804-FAN-A| Cisco Nexus 9800 4-slot chassis fan tray
NXK-HV6.3KW20A-A| Cisco Nexus 9800 6300W 20A AC and HV power supply
NXK-HV6.3KW30A-A| Cisco Nexus 9800 6300W 30A AC and HV power supply

Additional Resources

Licensing

Cisco Nexus 9800 Series Switches support Cisco Data Center Networking (DCN) Premier, Advantage, or Essentials licenses for appropriate features. Certain features such as MACsec require add-on licenses such as a DCN security license.

Documentation Feedback

To provide technical feedback on this document, or to report an error or omission, send your comments to nexus9k-docfeedback@cisco.com. We appreciate your feedback.

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