Cisco Data Center Network Manager

Features and Capabilities

Cisco Data Center Network Manager offers network management system (NMS) support for traditional or multiple-tenant LAN and SAN fabrics on a single pane of glass.

Data Center Network Manager:

• Works across all Cisco Nexus and MDS switching families
• Supports automatic configuration for multi-tenant automation
• Offers integrated storage visualization, provisioning, and troubleshooting
• Integrates with Cisco UCS Director, vSphere, and OpenStack

Data Center Network Manager offers intuitive, multi-fabric topology views for LAN fabric and storage. Supported overlays include:

• VXLAN
• FabricPath
• Layer 2
• Virtual port channel
• Virtual device context
• Virtual SAN

Features

• Power-On Auto-Provisioning (POAP) with validated VXLAN templates for Nexus 5000 to 9000 switches
• Automatic provisioning for VXLAN, Fabric Path, or VLAN-based multi-tenant networks using auto-configuration or top-down methods
• Multiple site visibility and search with data synchronization
• Image management, graceful insertion and removal, and software module updates
• Performance and storage zoning management

Specifications at a Glance

• ISO or OVA virtual appliance form factor for deployment on bare-metal servers, VMware, or KVM
• HTML5 user interface
• Supports very large deployments
• Includes automation of representational state transfer (REST) APIs using Javascript Object Notation (JSON)
• Built-in database for enterprise deployments with high availability
• Fibre Channel host, N-Port Virtualizer, and storage views with zoning and alias functionality for SAN
• Offers physical, Layer 2, Layer 3, VXLAN, and virtual port channel (vPC) topology overlay views along with Fibre Channel end-to-end views, including storage views

Target release specifications are subject to change without notice.

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