Manage a Converged Data Center Fabric

Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) is designed to help you efficiently implement and manage virtualized data centers. It includes a feature-rich, customizable dashboard that provides visibility and control through a single pane of glass to Cisco Nexus and MDS products.

Video Data Sheet

Learn about converged management for unified LAN and SAN deployments. (3:39 min)

Video Guide to DCNM

Learn how to deploy and use DCNM features for troubleshooting, resource planning, and configuration.

Features and Capabilities

Cisco Prime DCNM optimizes the overall uptime and reliability of your data center infrastructure and helps improve business continuity. This advanced management product:

Automates provisioning of data center LAN and SAN elements
Proactively monitors the SAN and LAN, and detects performance degradation
Helps secure the data center network
Eases diagnosis and troubleshooting of data center outages
Simplifies operational management of virtualized data centers

Primary Benefits of Cisco DCNM

Faster problem resolution
Intuitive domain views that provide a contextual dashboard of host, switch, and storage infrastructures
Real-time and historical performance and capacity management for SANs and LANs
Virtual-machine-aware path analytics and performance monitoring
Easy-to-use provisioning of Cisco NX-OS features with preconfigured, customized templates
Customized reports which can be scheduled at certain intervals

Use Cisco DCNM for technologies such as: