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Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Network Analysis Module
(NAM-NX1) with Software 6.0
(NAM-NX1) with Software 6.0
Overview
Q. What is the Cisco Nexus
®
7000 Series Network Analysis Module (NAM-NX1) and what does it do?
A. Integrated with the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches, the Cisco
®
NAM-NX1 is a high-performance service
module that delivers comprehensive application awareness, performance analytics, and network intelligence to
simplify data center operations. The module empowers network administrators with actionable details to
improve application performance, optimize network resources, and enhance operation efficiency.
Comprehensive application awareness in combination with performance analytics allows administrators to
quickly focus on business-critical applications and help ensure that applications are getting adequate network
resources and performing at optimal levels.
The extension of network visibility to virtualization and overlay technologies such as Cisco Overlay Transport
Virtualization (OTV), Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP), and Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) enables
administrators to optimize the network for distributed and efficient services delivery. For instance, in OTV
environments, the NAM can look inside each overlay to provide traffic statistics and application performance
metrics, categorized by host, application, and conversation. This approach allows administrators to effectively
use network overlays and troubleshoot deployment problems.
The Cisco NAM-NX1 combines comprehensive data collection and analytics and a remotely accessible, web-
based management console on a single blade that is installed in Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches. The
console provides predesigned reports, workflows, and contextual navigation to expedite problem resolution
and optimization decisions. It also includes an embedded performance database that preserves historical data,
allowing you to understand what happened in the past when an event that affected network performance
occurred.
Q. What are the business benefits of deploying the Cisco NAM-NX1?
A. The Cisco NAM-NX1 delivers comprehensive application awareness, performance analytics, and network
intelligence to simplify data center operations. Table 1 provides an overview of the business benefits.
Table 1.
Business Benefits of Deploying Cisco NAM-NX1
Benefit
Description
Improved application
performance
performance
● Characterize application performance.
● Improve the application experience with effective use of control and optimization techniques such as quality of
● Improve the application experience with effective use of control and optimization techniques such as quality of
service (QoS) and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS).
● Preempt performance problems with threshold-based proactive alerts and reduce downtime and failures.
Enhanced operation
efficiency
efficiency
● Rapidly troubleshoot performance problems with predesigned reports, visual correlation, contextual navigation,
and one-click packet captures.
● Use the packet capture scan feature to identify observed protocol- and packet-level anomalies, accelerating
complex root-cause analysis.
● Combine packet and flow data sources to gather noteworthy and actionable information to expedite
troubleshooting.