Cisco Nexus 5672UP vs Lenovo ThinkSystem DB630S
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 5672UP is a 1U top-of-rack converged switch providing 48 ports of 10GbE SFP+ (including 16 Universal Ports supporting 8G/16G Fibre Channel) and 6 ports of 40G QSFP+. The ThinkSystem DB630S is Lenovo's high-density 2U Gen 6 Fibre Channel SAN switch, engineered on Brocade G630 OEM hardware.
| Cisco Nexus 5672UP | Lenovo ThinkSystem DB630S | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Apr 2014 | May 2018 |
| Form factor | 1U fixed switch | 2U rack |
| Ports | 48x 10GbE SFP+ (16 universal ports) + 6x 40GbE QSFP+ ports | Up to 128 ports: 96x 32Gb/s SFP+ ports plus 8x 128Gb/s 4x32Gb QSFP ports |
| Switching capacity | 1.44 Tbps non-blocking bandwidth | 4.096 Tb/s aggregate full duplex throughput |
| Forwarding rate | Up to 1,071 Mpps | — |
| Unified ports | 16 ports support native 8G/16G Fibre Channel or 10GbE Ethernet | — |
| Vxlan routing | Hardware-accelerated VXLAN bridging and routing in a 1U form factor | — |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant hot-swap AC power supplies |
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