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Cisco cisco Nexus 7000 Nexus 7018modular chassis

The Cisco Nexus 7018 is an 18-slot enterprise datacenter core chassis switch engineered for maximum port density and centralized aggregation. Occupying 25U of rack space, the 7018 accommodates dual supervisor engines and sixteen payload line card slots, delivering up to 18.7 Tbps of crossbar switching bandwidth, massive 10G/40G/100G port scale, and carrier-grade high availability for large enterprise datacenters.

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Specifications

Brandcisco
FamilyNexus 7000
Form factormodular chassis
ReleasedApr 2009
End of saleApr 2017
End of supportApr 2022
Chassis slots18
Supervisor slotsSlots 9 and 10 (redundant supervisor modules)
Line card slots16 payload line card slots (Slots 1-8, 11-18)
Chassis height25U rack mount
System capacityUp to 18.7 Tbps with Fabric-2 modules
Max portsUp to 768 10GbE or 192 40GbE ports in a single chassis
PowerUp to four 7500W power supplies

Generations

Works together

How the cisco Nexus 7000 Nexus 7018 connects to servers, storage and the network: 3 ways, with the parts and products on each path.

iSCSI and NVMe/TCP over EthernetFile storage (NFS and SMB)Hyperconverged cluster

iSCSI and NVMe/TCP over Ethernet

Keep the speed the same at all three points: a 25GbE server, a 25GbE switch port and a 25GbE array port. Mixed speeds work but the slowest link sets the pace.

Servers

Adapters for the server

Storage

Optics

iSCSI and NVMe/TCP over Ethernet: how it fits together

File storage (NFS and SMB)

Front-end ports face the clients; back-end ports (on scale-out systems) connect the nodes to each other and need their own switch pair.

Servers

Adapters for the server

Storage

Optics

File storage (NFS and SMB): how it fits together

Hyperconverged cluster

Plan at least two 25GbE ports per node to two switches; all-NVMe clusters often move to 100GbE.

HCI nodes

Adapters for the server

Optics

Hyperconverged cluster: how it fits together

Plan and size it

Check compatibility with Cisco

Before you buy, confirm the exact configuration against the vendor's own lists: firmware levels, operating systems, adapters and optics that Cisco has tested with the cisco Nexus 7000 Nexus 7018.

Equivalent models from other brands

FAQ

What makes the 7018 chassis distinct from the 7010?

The 7018 doubles payload line card capacity from eight to sixteen slots, utilizing side-to-side airflow to accommodate the wide horizontal chassis form factor.

What supervisor engines run in the 7018?

It supports Supervisor 1, Supervisor 2, and Supervisor 2T (Enhanced) engines.

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