Getting Started Guide

At-A-Glance
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The Cisco Nexus 6004 can be an aggregation point for Cisco Nexus 2200
platform fabric extenders, a connectivity point for 40 Gigabit Ethernet servers,
and an aggregation or spine node for Cisco Nexus 5500 platform switches,
Cisco Nexus 6001 Switches, and other Cisco Nexus 6004 Switches. The Cisco Nexus
6001 can be deployed as an access or leaf node providing connectivity to servers,
Cisco Nexus 2200 platform fabric extenders, and Cisco Unified Computing System™
(Cisco UCS®) fabric interconnects (Figure 4).
Figure 4. Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Deployment Scenarios
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Benefits
In today’s data centers, IT is tasked with building business agility while lowering total
cost of ownership (TCO). The Cisco Nexus 6000 Series can adapt to increasing
bandwidth demands with low power use and a compact space profile, reducing capital
expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx). The Cisco Nexus 6000 Series
with high port density, lossless Ethernet, line-rate performance, and very low latency is
well suited to meet the growing demands in the data center with a common Ethernet-
based fabric in physical and virtual data center deployments. The Cisco Nexus 6000
Series is excellent for customers who have standardized on the fabric extender
architecture, warranty coverage, and technical service options.
The Cisco Nexus 6000 Series comes with a Cisco 90-day hardware warranty. Adding
a contract for a technical service offering such as Cisco SMARTnet® Service to your
device coverage provides access to the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) and
can provide a variety of hardware replacement options to meet critical business needs,
updates for licensed OS software, and registered access to the extensive Cisco.com
knowledge base and support tools.
For More Information
For more information about Cisco warranties, go to www.cisco.com/go/warranty.
For information about Cisco Technical Services, go to www.cisco.com/go/ts.