Cisco 4500 Architecture

Catalyst 4500E Architecture
Chapter 1: Architecture Richard Licon
Agenda
Catalyst 4500E Chassis Power Supplies Supervisors Line cards High Availability and In Service Software Upgrade
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Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series

Enterprise Footprint
Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Most Widely Deployed Modular Ethernet Switch
in the Industry
Over 530,000 chassis shipped
Over 70 million ports shipped
Leading Campus Access Switching Platform Medium-scale Distribution/Core Platform for Branch, Small Campus www.cisco.com/go/catalyst4500
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Catalyst 4500E Series Chassis

New E Series chassis designed to support higher bandwidth per slot line cards
WS-C4507R-E 7 slot chassis With Redundant Supervisors WS-C4510R-E 10 slot chassis with Redundant supervisors
WS-C4503-E 3 slot chassis With single Supervisor
WS-C4506-E 6 slot chassis With Single supervisor
Catalyst 4500E Series Chassis

24 Gbps/slot capacity with Sup6-E and Sup6L-E Capable of 48 Gbps/Slot
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Up to 384 Access FE / GE Ports
Backward compatible with all line cards and supervisors

Maximum POE Upto 750W per line card.

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WS-C4503E and WS-C4506-E
Supervisor in slot 1 Line cards in slot 2 and 3 Redundant Power supplies 7 RU 24G/slot with Supervisor6-E and Supervisor6L-E 6G/slot with all classic supervisors and line cards
Supervisor in slot 1 Line cards in slot 2 to 6 Redundant Power supplies 10 RU 24G/slot with Supervisor6-E and Supervisor6L-E 6G/slot with all classic supervisors and line cards
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WS-C4507R-E and WS-C4510R-E
Supervisor in slots 3 and 4 Line cards in slot 1-2 and 4-7 Redundant Power supplies 11 RU 24G/slot with Supervisor6-E and Supervisor6L-E 6G/slot with all classic supervisors and line cards
Supervisor in slot 5-6 Line cards in slot 1-4 and 7-10 Redundant Power supplies 14 RU 24G/slot with Supervisor6-E for slots 1-7, 6G/slot for 8-10 6G/slot with Supervisor V and Supervisor V-10GE and classic line cards
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Flexible Power Options : AC and DC

Data Only
AC or DC 1000W AC Data only power supply for 3, 6, and 7 slot chassis 1400W AC Data only power supply for 10 slot chassis -12 VDC Data 1400W DC Data only triple input power supply for Service Providers
Data and Voice

AC or DC
1300W AC Low density PoE power supply for small IPTel or Wireless 2800W AC Mid-range PoE power supply 4200W AC Mid-range PoE power supply with dual inputs
-12 VDC Data
-48 VDC PoE
1400W DC-P Large PoE power supply able to power 384 class 3 phones 6000W AC High end PoE power supply with dual inputs
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Understanding Power Redundancy

The 4500 can utilize two power supplies to work in either combined or redundant mode
Redundant Mode Combined Mode
Switch
83%
Switch
83%
50%
50%
Power Supply 1Power Supply 2
Power Supply 1 Power Supply 2
In redundant mode, each power supply operates at 50% capacity and provides the same total power as a single power supply if one fails, the backup reverts to providing 100% power
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In combined mode, each power supply operates at 83% - if one fails, then the running supply provides 100% of its power capacity
N+1 Redundancy with Dual Input PS

Virtual 4200W Supply Actual 4200W Supply
Subunit 1 and 2
4x 220V inputs = 5500W of N+1 redundant power (280 Class 3 PDs) 4x 110V inputs = 2728W of N+1 redundant power (119 Class 3 PDs)
4500(config)#power redundancy-mode combined max inputs 3

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Catalyst 4500E Architecture

Centralized Architecture
Centralized memory switch
CPU / SDRAM Forwarding Engine FFE /VFE Shared Memory Fabric PPE / IPP
All forwarding, queuing, security is implemented on the Supervisor

The individual line cards are considered to be transparent No local switching on line cards Each classic line card (WS-X41xxWS-X45xx ) has 6 Gbps (full duplex) connections to the central forwarding engine
Each E-Series line card (WS-X46xx ) has 24 Gbps (full duplex) connection to the central forwarding engine
Line Card Line Card Line Card Line Card Line Card
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Basic Layer 3 Supervisors

Classic
Supervisor II-Plus Bandwidth: 64 Gbps Throughput: 48 Mpps Uplinks: 2 x GbE CPU: 266 MHz DRAM: 256 MB Number of Routes: 32K QoS / Security Entries: 32K Input / Output Policers: 512/512 Supported in 3,6,7 Slot Chassis
Supervisor II-Plus-TS Bandwidth: 64 Gbps Throughput: 48 Mpps Uplinks: 8 x GbE (SFP) & 12 x 10/100/1000 PoE CPU: 266 MHz DRAM: 256 MB Number of Routes: 32K QoS / Security Entries: 32K Input / Output Policers: 512/512 Supported in 3 Slot Chassis Only
Supervisor II-Plus-10GE Bandwidth: 108 Gbps Throughput: 81 Mpps Uplinks: 4 x GbE & 2 x 10GbE CPU: 667 MHz DRAM: 256 MB / 512 MB Number of Routes: 32K FIB Entries QoS / Security Entries: 32K Input / Output Policers: 512/512 Supported in 3,6,7 Slot Chassis
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Basic L2/L3/L4 Services RIP, Static Routes, EIGRP Stub Classic Line Cards Only Supported in Both E and Non E-Series Chassis
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Enhanced Layer 3 Supervisors

Classic
Supervisor IV Bandwidth: 64 Gbps Throughput: 48 Mpps Uplinks: 2 x GbE CPU: 333 MHz DRAM: 512 MB Number of Routes: 128K FIB Entries QoS / Security Entries: 64K Input / Output Policers: 1K/1K Optional Netflow Daughter Card Supported in 3,6,7 Slot Chassis
Supervisor V Bandwidth: 96 Gbps Throughput: 72 Mpps Uplinks: 2 x GbE CPU: 400 MHz DRAM: 512 MB Number of Routes: 128K FIB Entries QoS / Security Entries: 64K Input / Output Policers: 1K/1K Optional Netflow Daughter Card Supported in 3,6,7, and 10 Slot Chassis
Supervisor V-10GE
Bandwidth: 136 Gbps Throughput: 102 Mpps Uplinks: 4 x GbE & 2 x 10GbE CPU: 800 MHz DRAM: 512 MB Number of Routes: 128K FIB Entries QoS / Security Entries: 64K Input / Output Policers: 8K/8K Integrated Netflow ASIC Supported in 3,6,7, and 10 Slot Chassis
Full L2/L3/L4 Services BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, VRF-Lite, PBR, NSF, Netflow Classic Line Cards Only Supported in Both E and Non E-Series Chassis
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Supervisor6-E
Enhanced L3 Supervisor
WS-X45-Sup6-E Bandwidth: 320 Gbps Throughput: 250 Mpps (IPv4) 125 Mpps (IPv6) Uplinks: 2 x 10GbE or 4 x GbE SFPs via TwinGig Module CPU: 1.33 GHz DRAM: 512 MB (Default) / 1 GB (Upgradeable) Number of Routes: 256K FIB Entries (1 GB SDRAM) 64K Ingress Security / QoS Entries 64K Egress Security / QoS Entries Input / Output Policers: 16K / 16K Supported in 3,6,7 and 10 Slot Chassis ESeries & Classic E-Series & Classic line card Support New image type: cat4500e-entservices-mz Supports IP Base and Enterprise Services image
Dual Purpose Uplink Ports Two 10 GbE or Four 1 GbE with Twin Gig Module
Full L2/L3/L4 Services BGP, OSPF, PBR, EIGRP, VRF-Lite, NSF IPv6 in Hardware 24G/slot with E-Series Line cards
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Redundant Supervisor6-E Uplinks

Prior to Cisco IOS Release 12.2(44)SG- Sup6-E allowed one to enable either dual wire speed 10GbE ports or four Twin-Gigabit converter based GbE SFP uplink ports when operating in redundancy mode
Active Supervisor Standby Supervisor Only Left-most Ports Enabled
Ports Inactive
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Redundant Supervisor6-E Uplinks

Cisco IOS 12.2(46)SG- Shared-Backplane Mode* enables all front-panel ports on both Active and Standby Supervisor Engines. Capability supported on all Catalyst 4500 and 4500E Series Chassis with Supervisor 6-E.
Active Supervisor Standby Supervisor
*Shared-Backplane Mode only applies to sup6-e

4500(config)#hw-module uplink mode shared-backplane
A 'redundancy reload shelf' or power-cycle of chassis is required to apply the new configuration
All Ports Are Active
4500# redundancy reload shelf
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Supervisor6L-E
Basic L3 Supervisor
280 Gbps Switch Fabric Capacity
Centralized Forwarding - 24Gbps per Full Slot

IPv4 (225Mpps) - IPv6 (112Mpps) in HW WS-X45-SUP6L-E 512 MB or 1 GB SDRAM 57K FIB entries, 32K security/QoS 2K VLAN/SVI Support Basic Layer 3 E-Series Supervisor IP Base and LAN Base IOS images - 12.2(52)XO Supports full redundancy with SSO/NSF/ISSU (7R chassis)
RIP, Static Routes, EIGRP-Stub (IP Base image only)

Chassis Support 3, 6, and 7 slot - Classic and E-Series Compatible Dual Purpose Non-Blocking Uplink Ports Two 10 GbE or Four 1 GbE SFPs with Twin Gig Module 2 active 10GE ports or 4 active SFPs in redundant mode
LANBase Image Release Notes: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst4500/release/note/OL_17886.html

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IOS Features ComparisonLAN Base vs. IP Base

Features
10G Uplink Use
SPAN (# of Sessions)Port Mirroring
LAN Base Image

Yes - $4k License
2 sessions
IP Base Image
Yes
8 sessions
Energywise
Location Services SmartCallHome HSRP and VRRP GLBP L2PT and Q-in-Q Auto QoS EIGRP Stub PIM SM/DM Flex Link PVST+ & RPVST+ Auto-Voice VLAN (part of Auto QoS) EEM Smartports (Role-Based MACRO) TDR Multihop SXP (CTS)
No
No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
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Supervisor6-E / Supervisor6L-E Block Diagram

Ingress Security / QoS ACLs Forwarding Tables
CPU Packet Memory

CPU FPGA
STP Memory
ICC TCAM
FLC TCAM
PLD Fabric Ports
FWD Memory 1
Intelligent Packet Processor (IPP) ASIC
PTD
Very Fast Forwarding Engine (VFE) ASIC
FWD Memory 2
OCC TCAM
Egress Security / QoS ACLs
Queue Memory
DBL Mem
RET
Congestion Avoidance
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Supervisor6-E and Supervisor6L-E Unicast Packet Walk

CPU
PHY
Fabric
Packet Memory CPU FPGA
STP Memory
ICC TCAM
FLC TCAM
1 2
4
PLD
6
FWD Memory 1
3
IPP (Intelligent Packet Processor) ASIC PTD VFE (Very Fast Forwarding Engine) ASIC
FWD Memory 2 OCC TCAM
9
Fabric
PHY
10
7
Queue Memory DBL Mem RET
Line Card
Supervisor6-E Supervisor6L-E
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Supervisor6-E and Supervisor6L-E Unicast Packet Walk

1. 2. 3. 4. Packet enters the PHY in the line module and travels across the backplane before reaching the Supervisor Packet enters the Supervisor; IPP performs parsing of VLAN tag / header and stores the packet into Packet Memory The stripped header is used to construct a Packet Lookup Descriptor (PLD) and forwarded to the VFE ASIC PLD goes through L2 lookup. Spanning Tree state is checked. Packet MAC source and MAC destination coupled with the receive VLAN ID are looked up in the L2 Hash Table. L2 Lookup also determines whether the packet is destined for Router functionality Input Classification is used to store input ACL and QoS rules in TCAM4 Packet is sent to the Forwarding Lookup CAM for L3 lookup. FLC stores L3 forwarding and unicast RPF check rules. Contains IPv4 and IPv6 FIB entries Output Classification stores output ACL and QoS rules in TCAM4 The Packet Transmit Descriptor (PTD) is sent to the Queue Memory PTD is sent back to the IPP
5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
10.
IPP transmits the packet across the backplane to the correct egress interface
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Supervisor6-E and Supervisor6L-E Multicast Packet Walk

Packet Memory
Packet Lookup Descriptor (PLD)
Layer2 module
Input Services Layer3 module Output Services
Modules
Packet Processor
Packet Transmit Descriptor (PTD)
Replication Queue
Forwarding Engine
Replication Module
Replication Table
Line Card
Supervisor6-E Supervisor6L-E
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Packet Memory
Host AVLAN 1 Multicast Source Packet Lookup Descriptor (PLD)
7 8
Layer2 module
Input Services Forwarding Engine Layer3 module Output Services
Replication Module
Modules
Packet Processor
Packet Transmit Descriptor (PTD)
Replication Queue
Replication Table
Line Card
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1.
2. 3.
Packet enters the PHY in the line module and travels across the backplane before reaching the Supervisor
Packet enters the Supervisor; IPP performs parsing of VLAN tag / header and stores the packet into Packet Memory The stripped header is used to construct a Packet Lookup Descriptor (PLD) and forwarded to the VFE ASIC . L2 lookup is performed . If the packet is a multicast packet , it is marked to be placed in Replication Queue. PLD goes through L3 lookup. The multicast group is looked up and on a hit , RET index ( Index in the replication table ) and RPF vlan is determined.
4.
5.
6.
The PLD are enqued into MRQ ( Multicast Replication queue ) and the dequeuing process of MRQ created one packet per output vlan.
The multicast replication module ( MRM ) gets the replication information for the packet descriptor in the MRQ from RET table ( replication table ) and replicates the packets and sends it to the PPE with the PTD. Replicated packets are recirculated through the pipeline for ACL and QOS lookup for OIL Same as 7 for any additional packets Packet is transmitted to the output port
7. 8. 9.
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Software Switched Packets in Cat4500

IPX
Switch CPU
Appletalk
ARP Routing protocol packets
Ingress Control Plane

Control pkts, and the pkts destined to CPU
L2 Control PDUs
Forwarding ASICs
Tunneling MTU Failure
Adjacency Same interface

Data traffic is switched by Forwarding ASICs
Linecard
Linecard
ACL logging IGMP etc
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TCAM Allocation Classic Supervisors

Input CAM (32k entries)
Output CAM (32k entries)
4500# show platform hardware acl statistics utilization brief Entries/Total(%) Masks/Total(%) ----------------- --------------0 / 8112 ( 0) 0 / 8112 ( 0) 0 / 8112 ( 0) 0 / 8112 ( 0) 0 / 8128 ( 0) 0 / 8128 ( 0) 0 / 8128 ( 0) 0 / 8128 ( 0) 0 / 8112 ( 0) 0 / 8112 ( 0) 0 / 8112 ( 0) 0 / 8112 ( 0) 0 / 8128 ( 0) 0 / 8128 ( 0) 1 / 8128 ( 0) 1 / 8128 ( 0)
Input Input Input Input Output Output Output Output
Acl(PortAndVlan) Acl(PortOrVlan) Qos(PortAndVlan) Qos(PortOrVlan) Acl(PortAndVlan) Acl(PortOrVlan) Qos(PortAndVlan) Qos(PortOrVlan)
L4Ops: used 2 out of 128
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Input ACL CAM (16k entries) Input QoS CAM (16k entries) Output ACL CAM (16k entries) Output QoS CAM (16k entries)
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Input Acl (PortAndVlan) (8k entries) Input Acl (PortorVlan) (8k entries) Output Acl (PortAndVlan) (8k entries) Output Acl (PortorVlan) (8k entries)
Input QoS CAM (8k entries) (16k entries) Input QoS (PortOrVlan)
(8k entries)
Input QoS (PortAndVlan)
Output QoS CAM (16k entries) Output QoS (PortOrVlan)

(8k entries)
Output QoS (PortAndVlan) (8k entries)
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Increasing TCAM Flexibility with SUP6-E

Number and type of traffic flow patterns increasing at the same time as the need for increased policy control Supervisor 6E utilizes TCAM4 (fourth generation HW ASICs) Provides for dynamic resizing More efficient use of labels and masks provides for greatly increased optimization of scalability requirements Provides for more granular QoS and security policies QoS
Input Classification CAM64K
Security
QoS
Output Classification CAM64K
Security
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4500# show platform hardware acl statistics utilization brief CAM Utilization Statistics -------------------------Used Input Input Input Security Security (160) (320) 31 52 0 8 8 0 (1 (2 (0 (0 (0 (0 %) %) %) %) %) %) Free 2017 1996 Total (99 %) 2048 (98 %) 2048
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Unallocated (160) (160) (320)
61440 (100%) 61440 2040 2040 (100%) 2048 (100%) 2048
Output Security Output Security
Output Unallocated (160)
61440 (100%) 61440
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Dual Forwarding CAMs provide 64 blocks to store IPv4 and IPv6 Unicast Multicast Routes 256,000 IPv4 Routes 128,000 IPv6 Routes
Optimized Space Allocation for IPv4 and IPv6 Configurations! Hardware Support for IPv6
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Catalyst 4500E Scalable Services

Catalyst 4500 Supervisor 6-E
256,000 Forwarding Entries
128,000 QoS/ Security Entries
Dedicated hardware capacity for forwarding Dedicated hardware capacity for features Ample headroom for future requirements Line rate performance for security and QoS
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E-Series Line cards

ACCESS
WS-X4648-RJ45V-E
10/100/1000 802.3af PoE 48-port (RJ-45) Module
DISTRIBUTION
Up to 6 Ports 10GbE X2 or 12 Ports 1GbE SFP via TwinGig Converter Module TwinGig Modules used in groups of three ports 1-3 or ports 4-6 Cisco IOS 12.2(40)SG IEEE 802.3 L2-L4 Jumbo Frame Support 6 Ports 10GbE (2.5:1)
2:1 Oversubscribed Cisco Release 12.2(40)SG Capable of 20W Per Port Premium Module Capable of 30W Per Port L2-L4 Jumbo Frame Support (up to 9216 bytes) IEEE 802.3af Cisco Prestandard 802.3x flow control Eight 6-port groups 3 Gbps per port group (2:1)
6-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet X2 Module
WS-X4606-X2-E
Gigabit Ethernet Fiber 24-port Module (SFP)
WS-X4624-SFP-E 24 Port SFP Pluggables:

GLC-BX-D, GLC-BX-U, GLC-SX-MM, GLC-ZX-SM, GLC-T, CWDM, and DWDM Cisco IOS Release 12.2(44)SG L2-L4 Jumbo Frame Support Line Rate Non-Blocking
WS-X4648-RJ45V+E
10/100/1000 802.3af Premium PoE 48-port (RJ-45) Module
Functionally Transparent Supported in E-Series Chassis Supported with Supervisor6-E and Supervisor6L-E
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48 Port E-Series Copper GE Line Card

24 Gbps Slot Capacity
Fabric Ports
3Gbps
3Gbps
3Gbps
3Gbps
3Gbps
3Gbps
XGStub ASIC
XGStub ASIC
XGStub ASIC
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
910 11 12
Octal Phy
Octal Phy
Octal Phy
Octal Phy
Octal Phy
3Gbps
XGStub ASIC
Octal Phy
Front Panel Ports 1 - 48 24G per Slot (2:1 Oversubscribed) (4) XGStubs Capable of per Port Current Monitoring L2/L3 Jumbo Frames on All Ports
3Gbps
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24 Port E-Series FiberGE Line Card

Fabric Ports 3Gbps 3Gbps 3Gbps 3Gbps 3Gbps 3Gbps 3Gbps 3Gbps
XGStub ASIC
XGStub ASIC
10
11
12
Phy
Phy
Phy
Front Panel Ports 1 - 24 24G per Slot (Non oversubscribed ) (2) XGStubs L2/L3 Jumbo Frames on All Ports
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6 port 10GE Fiber Line Card

Fabric Ports 3Gbps 3Gbps 3Gbps 3Gbps
3Gbps
XGStub ASIC
3Gbps
XGStub ASIC
10G
10G
10G
10G
10G
3Gbps
10G
Front Panel Ports Ten 1 6 or Gig 7-18 24G per slot (2.5 :1 oversubscribed ) (2) XGStubs L2/L3 Jumbo Frames on All Ports
3Gbps
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Using 10GE pors as 1GE ports
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
4500# show hw-module module 3 port-group Module Port-group Active Inactive ---------------------------------------------3 1 Gi3/7-12 Te3/1-3 3 2 Te3/4-6 Gi3/13-18
Default Changed
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WS-X4548-GB-RJ45V+
Supports POE up to 30W 6G/ Slot Works with classic supervisors as well as Supervisor6-E and Supervisor6L-E Supports POE monitoring and policing
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Power Monitoring and Power Policing

PoE Monitoring PoE Monitoring lets you display the true power consumption of inline powered devices connected to the switch
PoE Policing PoE Policing protects a switch from faulty inline powered devices that may draw more current than they were designed for These functionalities are supported on the following linecards:
WS-X4548-RJ45V+ WS-X4648-RJ45V-E WS-X4648-RJ45V+E
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POE Monitoring
C4500-E# show module Chassis Type : WS-C4510R-E Power consumed by backplane : 40 Watts Mod Ports Card Type Model Serial No. ---+-----+--------------------------------------+------------------+----------3 48 10/100/1000BaseT POE E Series WS-X4648-RJ45V-E JAE1129QL9N 4 48 10/100/1000BaseT Premium POE E Series WS-X4648-RJ45V+E JAE1129QSAV 5 6 Sup 6-E 10GE (X2), 1000BaseX (SFP) WS-X45-SUP6-E JAB112200CX 6 6 Sup 6-E 10GE (X2), 1000BaseX (SFP) WS-X45-SUP6-E JAB1122009C <SNIP> C4500-E# show power inline Gi3/2 Gi3/11 Gi3/22 Gi3/23 Gi3/29 Gi3/34 Gi3/47 Gi4/4 Gi4/39 Gi4/40 Gi4/41 Gi4/42 Gi4/48 Totals:13 auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto on on on on on on on on on on on on on on | include on 6.8 13.9 6.8 6.8 13.9 11.0 11.0 6.8 16.6 16.6 16.6 16.6 6.8 171.4 6.3 12.9 6.3 6.3 12.9 10.3 10.3 6.3 15.4 15.4 15.4 15.4 6.3 159.4 IP Phone IP Phone IP Phone IP Phone IP Phone IP Phone IP Phone IP Phone Ieee PD Ieee PD Ieee PD Ieee PD IP Phone 7960 7961 7960 7960 7961 7970 7970 7960 n/a 3 n/a n/a 3 3 3 n/a 3 3 3 3 n/a
7960
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POE Policing
PoE Policing threshold based on what power is allocated to the device via Configured consumption
IEEE Class
CDP Negotiation When device draws more power than allocated, power to device is removed User can configure to either log a message and restart device, or put port in errdisable state.
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POE Policing
PoE Policing turned off by default Default PoE Policing action is to errdisable the port Turn on default PoE Policing by entering the following:
C4500-E(config)# int gigabitethernet 2/1 C4500-E(config-if)# power inline police C4500-E# show power inline police g2/1 Available:800(w) Used:32(w) Remaining:768(w) Interface Admin Oper Admin Oper Cutoff Oper State State Police Police Power Power --------- ------ ---------- ---------- ---------- ------ ----Gi2/1 auto on errdisable ok 17.2 16.7
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Classic Line Cards GE Copper POE

ACCESS
24 Port 4:1 Oversubscribed Six 4-port groups, providing 1 Gbps Per Port-Group WS-X4524-GB-RJ45V Cisco IOS 12.2(20)EW
48 Port 8:1 Oversubscribed Six 8-port groups, providing 1 Gbps Per Port-Group Cisco IOS 12.2(18)EW IEEE 802.3x flow control IEEE 802.3af, Cisco PreStandard PoE Designed to power IP Phones, wireless Base Stations, Video Cameras, and other IEEEWS-X4548-GB-RJ45V compliant PDs
10/100/1000 PoE IEEE 802.3af 48 Ports (RJ-45) Module
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10/100/1000 PoE IEEE 802.3af 24 Ports (RJ-45) Module
WS-X4506-GB-T
10/100/1000 PoE IEEE 802.3af 6 Ports (RJ-45) and 1000BASE-X (SFP)
Any Combination of 6 Ports active at one time Provides Full Line-Rate (Non-Blocking) Cisco IOS 12.2(20)EWA L2-L4 Jumbo Frame Support ( up to 9216 bytes) Designed to power IP Phones, Wireless Base Stations, Video Cameras, and other IEEE-compliant PDs
Functionally Transparent Supported in All Chassis / Supervisors 6 Gbps Per Slot Capacity
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Classic Line Cards GE Copper
WS-X4424-GB-RJ45
10/100/1000 Module 24 Ports (RJ-45)
24 Port 4:1 Oversubscribed Six 4-port groups, providing 1 Gbps Per Port-Group 48 Port 8:1 Oversubscribed Six 8-port groups, providing 1 Gbps Per Port-Group
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45
10/100/1000 Module 48 Ports (RJ-45)
Cisco IOS 12.1(8a)EW IEEE 802.3x flow control

Designed for gigabit-to-thedesktop applications
48 Port 8:1 Oversubscribed Six 8-port groups, providing 1 Gbps Per PortGroup Cisco IOS 12.1(19)EW IEEE 802.3x flow control More Power Efficient & More Cost Effective than WS-X4448-GB-RJ45 Designed for gigabit-to-the-desktop applications
WS-X4448-GB-RJ45
10/100/1000 Module 48 Ports (RJ-45)
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Catalyst 4500 Hardware Resiliency

Physical Redundancy
Hot swap capability (Online Insertion and RemovalOIR) Redundant supervisors (1:1)
NSF/SSO switchover results in sub-second recovery Redundant supervisors are supported in Catalyst 4507R / 4507R-E, Catalyst 4510R / 4510R-E
Redundant fans (1:N)

Secondary fans provide sufficient cooling to keep the system running at full capacity
Redundant power supplies (1+1)

Secondary power supply kicks in instantly to provide full uninterrupted power to the system
Separation of Data and Control plane
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SSO Stateful Switchover

SSO allows redundant supervisors to run a stateful IOS applications to exchange state in order to minimize the outage timer in an event of supervisor switchover
Supported in Cisco IOS release 12.2(46)SG with Supervisor6-E and Cisco IOS release SSO is a default redundancy mode if the software supports it
Physical links and line cards stay up on switchover
Traffic Interruption on Catalyst 4500 typically sub-second ( <150 msec) for Classic typically 10-30ms with E-Series Sups
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Redundancy Configuration Check SSO

Catalyst 4500
4510R-E-1#show module Chassis Type : WS-C4510R-E Power consumed by backplane : 40 Watts Mod Ports Card Type Model Serial No. ---+-----+--------------------------------------+------------------+----------1 18 10GE (X2), 1000BaseX (SFP) WS-X4606-X2-E JAB1122023L 2 48 10/100/1000BaseT POE E Series WS-X4648-RJ45V-E JAB1122021V 3 48 10/100/1000BaseT Premium POE E Series WS-X4648-RJ45V+E JAE1129QM6P 5 6 Sup 6-E 10GE (X2), 1000BaseX (SFP) WS-X45-SUP6-E JAB112500EF 6 6 Sup 6-E 10GE (X2), 1000BaseX (SFP) WS-X45-SUP6-E JAB112500EL 9 24 10/100/1000BaseT (RJ45) WS-X4424-GB-RJ45 JAE10265HWV M MAC addresses Hw Fw Sw Status --+--------------------------------+---+------------+----------------+--------1 001b.54fc.339d to 001b.54fc.33ae 0.3 Ok 2 001b.54fc.4996 to 001b.54fc.49c5 0.3 Ok 3 001c.58f8.1250 to 001c.58f8.127f 0.3 Ok 5 001b.2a68.0080 to 001b.2a68.0085 0.3 12.2(33r)SG( 12.2(44)SG Ok 6 001b.2a68.0086 to 001b.2a68.008b 0.3 12.2(33r)SG( 12.2(44)SG Ok 9 0016.c73d.7860 to 0016.c73d.7877 1.8 Ok Mod Redundancy role Operating mode Redundancy status ----+-------------------+-------------------+---------------------------------5 Active Supervisor SSO Active 6 Standby Supervisor SSO Standby hot
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SSO Aware Features

SSO supports the stateful switchover of all L2 features . The state of the features are preserved between active and standby Supervisor Engines
Non-Exhaustive list of SSO-Aware Features 802.3 802.3u 802.1p 802.1q VTP Dynamic ARP Inspection HSRP MST/ PVST+
802.3x
802.3ab 802.3z 802.3ad Unicast MAC Filtering
802.1X
802.1D 802.3af PAgP ACL (VACLs, PACLs, RACLs)
DHCP Snooping
IP Source Guard IGMP Snooping v1 /v2/v3 DTP (802.1q and ISL) Multicast/Broadcast Storm Control
Rapid-PVST
Spanning Tree Toolkit Voice VLAN Port Security QoS
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SSO-Aware Features
4510R-E-1#show redundancy clients clientID = 0 clientSeq = 0 clientID = 29 clientSeq = 60 clientID = 139 clientSeq = 62 clientID = 3300 clientSeq = 63 clientID = 25 clientSeq = 69 clientID = 77 clientSeq = 74 clientID = 22 clientSeq = 94 clientID = 71 clientSeq = 102 clientID = 24 clientSeq = 103 clientID = 75 clientSeq = 116 clientID = 5 clientSeq = 120 clientID = 501 clientSeq = 126 clientID = 210 clientSeq = 127 clientID = 502 clientSeq = 128 clientID = 20 clientSeq = 153 clientID = 88 clientSeq = 157 <snip>
RF_INTERNAL_MSG Redundancy Mode RF IfIndex Persistent Variable CHKPT RF Event Manager Network RF Client XDR RRP RF Client CEF RRP RF Client Tableid HA Config Sync RF clien LAN-Switch VTP VLAN 802.1x authenticator LAN-Switch Port Mana IPROUTING NSF RF cli HSRP
4510R-E-1#show redundancy states | beg Redundancy Redundancy Mode (Operational) = Stateful Switchover Redundancy Mode (Configured) = Stateful Switchover Redundancy State = Stateful Switchover Maintenance Mode = Disabled Manual Swact = enabled Communications = Up client count = 46 <snip>
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NSF Non Stop Forwarding

Following SSO recovery and activation of standby supervisor , forwarding engines continue to route the traffic based hardware FIB table Supervisor reestablishes adjacency indicating this is NSF restart Peer updates the newly active supervisor routing processes with its routing information Newly active supervisor sends routing updates to the peer RIB attaches to FIB and forwarding engine TCAMs are updated with the new FIB entries
No Route Flaps During Recovery

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NSF Non Stop Forwarding

NSF Awareness If routing peers detect that an NSF router can still forward packets when a switchover occurs , this capability is referred to as NSF Awareness The NSF Aware switch helps to send the routing information to NSF peer router NSF Capable NSF works with SSO to minimize the amount of time that an L3 network is unavailable following a supervisor switchover by continuing to forward IP packets
The routing protocols recover routing information from peers and rebuild the CEF tables
No Route Flaps During Recovery

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Enabling NSF
4510R-E-1(config)#router eigrp 100 4510R-E-1(config-router)#nsf 4510R-E-1(config-router)#timers nsf ? converge EIGRP time limit for convergence after switchover route-hold EIGRP hold time for routes learned from nsf peer signal EIGRP time limit for signaling NSF restart 4510R-E-1(config)#router ospf 100 4510R-E-1(config-router)#nsf 4510R-E-1(config-router)#nsf ? cisco Cisco Non-stop forwarding ietf IETF graceful restart 4510R-E-1(config-router)#nsf cisco ? enforce Cancel NSF restart when non-NSF-aware neighbors detected helper helper support 4510R-E-1(config-router)#nsf ietf ? helper helper support restart-interval Graceful restart interval 4510R-E-1(config-router)#bgp graceful-restart ? restart-time Set the max time needed to restart and come back up stalepath-time Set the max time to hold onto restarting peer's stale paths
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Catalyst4500E In Service Software Upgrade
12.2(46)SG
12.2(50)SG
Targets Planned Downtime Due to Software Upgrades Active Standby

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Catalyst 4500E ISSU Stages

Initial State Final State
12.2(46)SG
12.2(46)SG
12.2(46)SG
12.2(50)SG
12.2(46)SG
12.2(50)SG
12.2(46)SG 12.2(50)SG
12.2(50)SG 12.2(50)SG
RunVersion
AcceptVersion
CommitVersion
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Catalyst 4500E Architecture

Chapter 1: Architecture Richard Licon

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Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series

Over 530,000 chassis shipped

Over 70 million ports shipped

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Catalyst 4500E Series Chassis

WS-C4503-E 3 slot chassis With single Supervisor

WS-C4506-E 6 slot chassis With Single supervisor

Catalyst 4500E Series Chassis

Up to 384 Access FE / GE Ports

Backward compatible with all line cards and supervisors

Maximum POE Upto 750W per line card.

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WS-C4503E and WS-C4506-E

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WS-C4507R-E and WS-C4510R-E

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Flexible Power Options : AC and DC

Data and Voice

-12 VDC Data

-48 VDC PoE

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Understanding Power Redundancy

Power Supply 1Power Supply 2

Power Supply 1 Power Supply 2

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N+1 Redundancy with Dual Input PS

4500(config)#power redundancy-mode combined max inputs 3

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Catalyst 4500E Architecture

All forwarding, queuing, security is implemented on the Supervisor

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Basic Layer 3 Supervisors

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Enhanced Layer 3 Supervisors

Redundant Supervisor6-E Uplinks

Active Supervisor Standby Supervisor Only Left-most Ports Enabled

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Redundant Supervisor6-E Uplinks

*Shared-Backplane Mode only applies to sup6-e

All Ports Are Active

4500# redundancy reload shelf

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Centralized Forwarding - 24Gbps per Full Slot

RIP, Static Routes, EIGRP-Stub (IP Base image only)

LANBase Image Release Notes: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst4500/release/note/OL_17886.html

IOS Features ComparisonLAN Base vs. IP Base

LAN Base Image

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