Introduction

Industry shifts are redefining IT at all levels. On-premise IT consumption models are shifting to cloud-based services. IT as a Service (IaaS) is supplanted by applications as a service. Separate development and operations are moving toward integrated Development and Operations (DevOps). Device-centric management models are migrating to application-centric management.

Business agility requires application agility, so IT teams need to provision applications in hours instead of months. Resources need to scale up (or down) in minutes, not hours. Traditional approaches take a siloed operational view, with no common operational model for the application, network, security, and cloud teams. A common operational model delivers application agility, simplified operations, assured performance, and scale.

The Solution: An Application-Centric Approach to Managing Your Infrastructure

Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a holistic architecture with centralized automation and policy-based application profiles. The Cisco ACI fabric is designed from the foundation to support emerging industry demands while maintaining a migration path for architecture already in place. The fabric is designed to support the industry move to management automation, programmatic policy, and dynamic "workload-anywhere" models. The Cisco ACI fabric accomplishes this with a combination of hardware, policy-based control systems, and software closely coupled to provide advantages not possible in other models.

The fabric consists of three major components: the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), spine switches, and leaf switches. These three components handle both the application of network policy and the delivery of packets. Organizations can use the ACI-ready Cisco Nexus® 9000 Series Switches as spine or leaf switches to take full advantage of an automated, policy-based, systems management approach. The Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Switches include both spine and leaf switches.

The Cisco Nexus 9364C ACI Spine Switch is a 2-Rack-Unit (2RU) spine switch for Cisco ACI that supports 12.84 Tbps of bandwidth and 4.3 bpps across 64 fixed 40/100G QSFP28 ports and 2 fixed 1/10G SFP+ ports(Figure 2). Breakout is not supported on ports 1 to 64. The last 16 ports marked in green support wire-rate MACsec encryption.

Management features

Switch type

Managed

Switch layer

L2/L4

Ports & interfaces

Basic switching RJ-45 Ethernet ports quantity

2

Basic switching RJ-45 Ethernet ports type

Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000)

SFP+ module slots quantity

2

QSFP+ module slots quantity

64

Fiber optic connector

QSFP28,SFP+

Console port

RS-232

USB 2.0 ports quantity

1

Network

10G support

Y

VLAN support

Y

Optical fiber

Switching optical modules type

100 Gigabit Ethernet

Data transmission

Switching capacity

12840 Gbit/s

Forwarding rate

4300 Mpps

Design

Rack mounting

Y

Form factor

2U

Product colour

Grey

LED indicators

Y

Certification

UL 60950-1 Second Edition, CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1 Second Edition, EN 60950-1 Second Edition, IEC 60950-1 Second Edition, AS/NZS 60950-1, GB4943

Performance

Built-in processor

Y

Internal memory

32000 MB

Flash memory

256000 MB

Noise level

97.4 dB

Mean time between failures (MTBF)

257860 h

Power

Redundant power supply (RPS) support

Y

AC input voltage

100 - 240 V

AC input frequency

50 - 60 Hz

DC input voltage

72 V

Power consumption (typical)

429 W

Power consumption (max)

1245 W

Power over Ethernet (PoE)

Power over Ethernet (PoE)

N

Operational conditions

Operating temperature (T-T)

0 - 40 °C

Storage temperature (T-T)

-40 - 70 °C

Operating relative humidity (H-H)

5 - 85%

Storage relative humidity (H-H)

5 - 85%

Operating altitude

0 - 4000 m

Weight & dimensions

Width

441.3 mm

Depth

565.8 mm

Height

85.9 mm

Weight

16.7 kg