Effective Unified Operations for NX-OS with Cisco Prime DCNM - Session from Tuesday - 12

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Effective Unified Operations for NX-OS with Cisco Prime DCNM

David Kirsch

Product Line Manager

www.cisco.com/go/dcnm


Challenges to Effective Data Center Operations

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Complexity through proliferation of virtualization layers

Siloes of application management and lack of integration

Keeping IT infrastructure stable and running at optimum levels

Information overload reducing ability of IT staff to quickly access impact

Understanding of what is normal vs. abnormal application workloads

Managing Multiple Management Tools


“A bad workman will never find a good tool.” French proverb, late 13th Century

“A bungler cannot find (or fit himselfe with) good tooles.”R. Congrave, French-English Dictionary, 1611

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”

Abraham H. Maslow (1962), Toward a Psychology of Being

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Challenges to Effective OperationsCan Become Opportunities in the Unified Data Center

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Unified Compute unmasks virtualization and joins into Unified Fabric



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Unified Management brings clarity

through visibility



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Unified Fabric simplifies the

tools required to span server, network and

storage services, technologies and

platforms

Unified Management brings clarity

through visibility


Cisco Unified Data CenterThe Best of Breed Components – Innovation Tailored to You

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UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

UNIFIEDFABRIC

UNIFIED COMPUTING


Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerTools for Effective Unified Operations for NX-OS

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Enable Scale and Resilience

Ensure Visibility and Flexibility

Achieve operational excellence

Automation

Intelligence

Flexibility

Simplifies the deployment and management of Cisco® Nexus and MDS services, technologies and platforms to…


Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerAddresses End-to-End NX-OS Use in Unified Data Center

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Unified ManagementEnd-to-End Visibility withDevice and Service specific provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting

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Unified FabricSupporting the full set of Cisco Nexus and MDS fixed and modular switches and FEX

Unified ComputeExtended to Cisco Nexus 1000v virtual switches, attached UCS servers with Intel® Xeon® processors all the way to Virtual Machine instances

HYPERVISOR


Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerAddresses Top-to-Bottom Operations for NX-OS

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• End-to-End Visibility• Performance & Availability• Event Creation / Monitoring

Nexus 7000 Series Core Switches

Nexus Access Series Switches

MDS 9000 Series Switches

Web

Services A

PI / S

MI-S

SN

MP

/ XM

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• Fibre Channel, Ethernet, FICON• Fibre Channel over Ethernet, iSCSI

Nexus 1010 DCNM Virtual Service Blade

VMware vSphereAPI Integration

Nexus 1000v

LAN VDC 1

SAN VDC

Nexus 7000 Virtual Device Context

MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS

VIRTUALIZATION

PHYSICAL LAYERONE NX-OS

TECHNOLOGIES• FabricPath, VPC

• Configuration and Provisioning by GUI, Template or Wizard

• Zone Assign / Control

UCS Fabric Interconnects*

• Capacity Track & Forecast• Host Tracking• VM Path Analytics

• Inventory w. Reporting• Image & Config Archive• Configuration Comparison


Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerDynamic Dashboards

The Summary Dashboard is configurable to display choices include: Health, Inventory, Traffic Flows, Connectivity, Used/Remaining Capacity


Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerDynamic Dashboards – Visual, Tabular and Graphical

Consolidated view of Virtual Hosts and SAN & LAN switches that can be searched, grouped or sorted

• Including host enhanced topology (all paths or shortest path) showing events, load and performance




Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerDynamic Dashboards – Tracking Resources

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System information for each SAN, LAN or Virtual Data Centers including image, boot and utilization

• With capacity forecast• As well as modules,

interfaces, images, licenses, features (SAN) and port capacity




Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerDynamic Dashboards – Tracking Performance

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Extensive performance monitoring featuring:• real-time & historic

displays and reports




Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerDynamic Dashboards - Fast Access to Extensive Detail

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• And inventory level detail


Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerDynamic Dashboards – Indispensable Tools

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Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerDynamic Dashboards

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Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerEnd-to-End Visibility – Use Case: VM Analytics

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VMUCS / GENERIC

SERVER



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VMUCS / GENERIC

SERVERNEXUSSWITCH

TRUNK / ISL



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VMUCS / GENERIC

SERVERNEXUSSWITCH

TRUNK / ISLSTORAGE

PORTNEXUS / MDS

SWITCH



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VMUCS / GENERIC

SERVERNEXUSSWITCH

TRUNK / ISLSTORAGE

PORTNEXUS / MDS

SWITCH



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VMUCS / GENERIC

SERVERNEXUSSWITCH

TRUNK / ISLSTORAGE

PORTNEXUS / MDS

SWITCH



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• Troubleshoot Performance across virtualized compute and network domains

• Understand the Impact of the path outage along with event description

VMUCS / GENERIC

SERVERNEXUSSWITCH

TRUNK / ISLSTORAGE

PORTNEXUS / MDS

SWITCH



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VMUCS / GENERIC

SERVERNEXUSSWITCH

TRUNK / ISLSTORAGE

PORTNEXUS / MDS

SWITCH



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• Understand behavior of your applications over a period of time

VMUCS / GENERIC

SERVERNEXUSSWITCH

TRUNK / ISLSTORAGE

PORTNEXUS / MDS

SWITCH


Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerService Specific Provisioning – Use Case: FabricPath

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• FabricPath deployment as a single cloud in DCNM …..simplicity

• Four-Click deployment for any size FabricPath cloud, from 2 to 20 to 200 switches …..rapid, scalable deployment

• Provisioning templates …..ensure standardized features and interfaces among members

Simple, Continuous Operations

NX-OS


Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerService Specific Provisioning – Use Case: FabricPath

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• FabricPath deployment as a single cloud in DCNM …..simplicity

• Four-Click deployment for any size FabricPath cloud, from 2 to 20 to 200 switches …..rapid, scalable deployment

• Provisioning templates …..ensure standardized features and interfaces among members

Simple, Continuous Operations

NX-OS


Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerService Specific Operations – Use Case: FabricPath

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• Graphical topology to quickly identify network problems …..visibility yields clarity

• Threshold crossing alerts for fabric “hot-spots” identification …. rapid problem resolution

• Key Performance Indicators for reachability and latency between source and destination node … …..operational simplicity

• Graphs of multipath traffic distribution of unicast, multicast and broadcast and FabricPath link state health awareness …..simple, scalable, resilient

NX-OS


Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerService Specific Operations – Use Case: FabricPath

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• Graphical topology to quickly identify network problems …..visibility yields clarity

• Threshold crossing alerts for fabric “hot-spots” identification …. rapid problem resolution

• Key Performance Indicators for reachability and latency between source and destination node … …..operational simplicity

• Graphs of multipath traffic distribution of unicast, multicast and broadcast and FabricPath link state health awareness …..simple, scalable, resilient

NX-OS


Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerEnd-to-End Visibility – Use Case: Host Tracking

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• Auto-detection and discover of physical and virtual servers …..automation

• Search for Host by Switch info, MAC Address or VLAN …. rapid problem resolution

• Supported on Hosts that are directly connected to N7K, N5K,N3K, N1K and UCS platforms …. scalability across Data Center

• Topology, connectivity and optional performance and utilization data collection display or reporting …..visibility for user intelligence


Cisco Prime Data Center Network ManagerYour Choice of Tools

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DCNM Essentials provides the baseline of LAN, SAN, Host and Virtualization capabilities – it is

offered at no purchase cost

DCNM Essentials: Monitor

DCNM Essentials: Reporting

DCNM Advanced Edition for

LANDCNM

Essentials: Dashboards

DCNM Advanced Edition for

SAN

DCNM Advance Edition for LAN license extends provisioning and

monitoring and topology views for additional protocols and Fabrics, as

well as functions such as Host Tracking

DCNM Advanced Edition for SAN license adds deeper interactive tools such as VM Analytics, Multiple Fabric Management, Historical Data Reporting, and Roaming User Profiles

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