New Features and Enhancements

Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM), Release 10.0(x) includes the new features, enhancements, and hardware support that are described in the following section:

New Features and Enhancements in Cisco DCNM, Release 10.0(1)ST(1)

Cisco DCNM, Release 10.0(1)ST(1) is a POAP template (.zip) file release. You can download the Cisco-defined templates from https:/​/​software.cisco.com/​download/​release.html.

Cisco DCNM, Release 10.0(1)ST(1), includes the new features, enhancements, and hardware support that are described in the following section:

Cisco-defined DFA and VXLAN EVPN POAP Templates

From Cisco DCNM POAP Release 10.0(1)ST(1), Cisco-defined DFA and VXLAN POAP templates are provided as a separate download on the official Cisco website. These templates are compatible for use with the DCNM Virtual Appliance (OVA or ISO) for use with Nexus 2000, Nexus 5000, Nexus 6000, Nexus 7000, and Nexus 9000 Series switches.

You can download the Cisco-defined templates from https:/​/​software.cisco.com/​download/​release.html.

For instructions on how to download and install POAP templates, refer to Cisco DCNM Installation Guide, Release 10.0(x).

New Features and Enhancements in Cisco DCNM, Release 10.0(1)DP1

Cisco DCNM, Release 10.0(1)DP1 is a device pack release. The device pack is a modular installation that can be applied on Cisco DCNM Release 10.0(1).

The device pack adds support for the following Cisco Nexus switches to DCNM 10.0(1).

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches Chassis:

  • N9236-C

  • N9K-9372TX-E

  • N9K-C92304QC

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches Line Card:

  • N9K-X9432C-S

For information about installing and uninstalling device packs for Cisco DCNM, refer to Cisco DCNM Fundamentals Guide, Release 10.

New Features and Enhancements in Cisco DCNM, Release 10.0(1)

Cisco DNCM, Release 10.0(1), includes the new features, enhancements, and hardware support that are described in the following section:

Native High Availability

From Release 10.0(1), Cisco DCNM appliances (OVA/ISO) allows you to manage Switches with an Active-Standby DCNM pair. This new form of high-availability mechanism leverages the replication capabilities of the built-in PostgreSQL database. At any given time, the DCNM runs only on the Active node. The Standby node synchronizes its database and file system at regular intervals. When the Active node fails, the Standby node becomes active. This HA mechanism also eliminates the external dependency on the Oracle database for enterprise setups.

Multi-fabric support

Cisco DCNM encapsulates and defines the properties of the Fabric, and binds all the Leaf/Spine/Border Leaf/Edge Router and other entities that fall into the purview of the Fabric. In Cisco DCNM Release 10.0(x), the multi-fabric feature is enabled for fabrics of different encapsulation types, such as FabricPath and VXLAN fabric. All the encapsulation types can exist together and the fabric-level consistency can be validated.

Web Client Interface on HTML 5

From Release 10.0(1), Cisco DCNM adapted HTML 5 for the Web Client. It also enables consolidated topology views and simplifies menus.

The new topology allows you to arrange the menu bar dynamically

VxLAN Support for Cisco Nexus

Cisco Nexus 5600 Series, Cisco 7000 Series and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches (in standalone mode) can be identified in a VxLAN topology by marking the VXLAN Tunnel End Point (VTEP) with a different icon. VxLAN support allows you to perform the following:

  • Visualization of VxLAN topology. This is available for Cisco Nexus 5600 Series, Cisco 7000 Series and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches (in standalone mode). The VTEPs are marked with a different icon.

  • Search the VTEP devices based on Visual Networking Index (VNI) or multicast address.

  • Display VNI, multicast address, mapped VLAN and VNI status in tabular format for a given VNI or multicast address.

  • Highlight mismatch in multicast address configuration for a given VNI.

  • Display active peers of VTEP for a given VNI.

  • Display all VNIs, multicast addresses, VNI statuses, and mapped VLANs of a particular VTEP in the switch inventory window.

Multi-Site Manager

From Cisco DCNM Release 10.0(1), Multi-Site Manager (MSM) feature allows you to perform the following:

  • monitor the overall health of the switches (inside SAN and LAN Fabric) in each site

  • identifies which DCNM Server (site) is managing a given switch

  • identifies the upstream LAN switch of a given host/virtual machine

  • identifies which LAN switches have active VXLAN segment

SAN Management

From Release 10.0(1), Cisco DCNM allows you to access the following SAN features from the Cisco DCNM Web Client.

  • Zoning

  • Device Alias

  • Port Monitoring

  • Switch Credentials Management

Config Archive

From Cisco DCNM Release 10.0(1), Cisco DCNM Web Client > Configure > Backup > Switch Configuration > Archive Jobs > Archive Jobs supports job scheduling for selected list of devices. You can archive the device configuration in the file server. Cisco DCNM allows you to copy and restore the configurations and supports Golden Backup.

PMon policy management for MDS9000 Series SAN Switch and Fabric

Cisco DCNM Release 10.0(1) provides five templates to customize and save user-defined policies—Normal, Aggressive, Most Aggressive, Default and Slowdrain. These policies will be saved in the DCNM database. You can select the policy to push to the selected fabric or switch with desired port type. The system-defined templates cannot be modified. However, you can edit, save, and delete the user-defined policies.

vPC workflow

The virtual port channel (vPC) feature enables you to view the links that are physically connected to different devices as a single port channel. The Cisco DCNM Web Client helps you to configure and identify the inconsistent vPCs, and resolve the inconsistencies in each vPC.

From the Cisco DCNM Web Client > Configure > Deploy > VPC to configure the vPC.

From the Cisco DCNM Web Client > Monitor > LAN > VPC > vPC Consistency to view the vPC consistency status.

Image Management

From Release 10.0(1), Cisco DCNM allows you to manage the images on the switches through Cisco DCNM Web Client > Configure > Image Management .

You can perform the following:

  • Upgrade [ISSU]

  • Patch [SMU]

  • Maintenance Mode [GIR]

You can also upload the images and save it on the Cisco DCNM Web Client > Configure > Image Management > Repositories.

Templates usage with JavaScript and Switch CLI output Parsing

In addition to the Java script functionality, Cisco DCNM Release 10.0(1) allows you to execute a CLI on the Switch. The CLI output is parsed to aid in automation of the common tasks such as:

  • Generating IPv6 address- based on the allotted Ipv4 address range

  • Substring search or matching

  • Math and substring manipulations

To use JavaScript from within a template, append your custom java script function call to the already packaged JavaScript file (TemplateScripts.js). This file is available on the DCNM 10 Server in the template repository path under:

/usr/local/cisco/dcm/dcnm/data/templates/

Solution PoAP Templates for VXLAN and Fabricpath

From Cisco DCNM Release 10.0(1), Cisco provides you a set of defined templates to aid in POAP operations. You can download Cisco-defined templates from https:/​/​software.cisco.com/​download/​release.html.

For instructions on how to download and install POAP templates, refer to Cisco DCNM Installation Guide, Release 10.0(x).

New Hardware Support

The following hardware are supported in Cisco DCNM Release 10.0(1).

Hardware

Part Number

92160YC-X—High performance 1RU box, 48 1/10/25-Gb host ports

N9K-C92160YC-X

9272Q—High-performance, 72-port\40-Gb fixed switching 2RU box. With 5.76 Tbps of bandwidth

N9K-C9272Q

9372-PXE—48 1/10-Gbps (SFP+) ports and 6 Quad SFP+ (QSFP+) uplink port, 1 RU box

N9K-C9372PX-E

8-port 100-Gigabit CFP2 I/O module

N9K-X9408PC-CFP2

100 Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports N9K-M4PC-CFP2

N9K-M4PC-CFP2

Supported Upgrade Path to Cisco DCNM Release 10.0

The following table lists the upgraded path supported on the Cisco DCNM Releases.

Table 1 Upgrade Path for Cisco DCNM, Release 10.0(1)

Cisco DCNM Installer version

Release from which you can upgrade

Cisco DCNM 10.0(1) ISO/OVA

  • Cisco DCNM, Release 7.2(2)

  • Cisco DCNM, Release 7.2(2a)

  • Cisco DCNM, Release 7.2(3)

Cisco DCNM 10.0(1) EXE/BIN

  • Cisco DCNM, Release 7.2(2)

  • Cisco DCNM, Release 7.2(2a)

  • Cisco DCNM, Release 7.2(3)