EMC Smarts Using Nexus 9000Network Management and Health Telemetry

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Source: EMA Radar™ for Enterprise Network Management Systems (ENMS): Q4 2012

“Virtualization, WLAN, VoIP, mobile devices, and “everything gets an IP address” from UPCs to motion detectors are all driving an increase in the amount of IP traffic that needs to be enabled and supported. Such hyper-growth in connectedness is making the network, and hence the role and importance of assuring the network is healthy and working, increasingly critical.”

Jim FreyManaging Research DirectorEnterprise Management Associates

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Problem – “Not our problem. . .at least not for long”

Reduce operational costs

Ensure service levels

Cross-domain visibility

• Monitoring alert feeds for critical

issues

• Following a “playbook” to determine

which alerts are real problems

• Gathering information needed to

help senior engineers diagnose and

fix issues

• Opening/updating trouble tickets

within time limits set by SLAs

• Not missing something ‘big’ that

might draw the attention of the

NOC Manager

• Meeting daily/weekly/monthly

goals for response time and

quality

• Identifying the real problems

amidst all the “noise”

• Alert storms

• Poor system response times

FREQUENT TASKS GOALS PAIN POINTS

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IT Operations Management Requires that SLAs are Being Met

VISIBILITY LEADS TO INSIGHT

Server

Network

Storage

Services

Physical and Virtual

Service Assurance

Physical VirtualPerformanceAvailability

Configuration

✔✔✔

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EMC Service Assurance Suite with Nexus 9000

Nexus 9500

Nexus 9300 and 9500

Better Monitoring

Faster Troubleshooting Robust Reporting

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Complete Visibility Across Storage, Network and Compute

COMPREHENSIVE OPERATIONS SUITE with NEXUS 9000

Service Assurance Management

Vir

tual

Service Assurance

Suite

Physi

cal

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Documented Customer Successes

Radianz

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Booth Information – Cisco Booth# XXX

Breakout Sessions:

• “Service Assurance Suite: Delivering Software-Defined Network Management For The Third

Platform - What's New In 2014” (Speaker: Serge Marokhovsky)

•  “Customer Viewpoint: How CompuCom Systems Leverages EMC Management Software To

Deliver Service Assurance”

(Speakers: Michael Cruise, CompuCom Systems & Brian Lett)

 

Hands-on-Lab:

• “EMC Service Assurance Suite – Manage Virtualized and Cloud Environments”

 

Demo Stations:

• ASD Booth #550

Thank you.

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