I don't think you have it correct. Each fabric module has 8x40G to each slot in the 9508. With 6 it's 48x40G to each slot. So you could lose one and still be able to support the 36x40G.
Phil -----Original Message----- From: "Skeeve Stevens" <[email protected]> Sent: 12/30/2014 9:14 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [c-nsp] Nexus 9500 Hi all, Just trying to understand the hardware requirements on a Nexus 9508... It is that time of the year when getting anything out of Cisco is slow (reasonable) and I thought I would ask the Cisco-NSP brain trust. You have the N9K-X9636PQ line card... which is 36 x 40Gb ports... non-blocking (the 1.5:1 sub model is N9K-X9536PQ). It says it needs 6 fabric modules for maximum bandwidth on the X9636PQ - for that one card - the X9536PQ only needs 3 FM's. But... the 9508 Chassis seems to only have capacity for 6 FMs... same with all of them actually. 9504 and 9516. Does this mean that only 1 x X9636PQ can actually work non-blocking in a whole 9508 Chassis? or two of the X9536PQ? So I could have a 8 slot chassis with one card in it and be non-blocking? Or.. being that a FM can do 8 x 40Gb links to a line card, then 6 will do 48 x 40Gb ports... so 36 on one card and 12 on another... assuming you could split it like that somehow. Or there is the N9K-X9432PQ - which seems to be linerate for > 200byte packets... (this seems like an odd card to make). So it sounds like a 9504 would make more sense as the 9508 would have wasted line card slots... even the 9504 will waste 2. Is this sound logic? ...Skeeve *Skeeve Stevens - *eintellego Networks Pty Ltd [email protected] ; www.eintellegonetworks.com Phone: 1300 239 038; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve facebook.com/eintellegonetworks ; <http://twitter.com/networkceoau> linkedin.com/in/skeeve twitter.com/theispguy ; blog: www.theispguy.com The Experts Who The Experts Call Juniper - Cisco - Cumulus Linux - Cloud - Consulting - IPv4 Brokering _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
