Cisco Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager 6.1 Data Sheet

 

 

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Data Sheet 

Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager 
Release 6.3 

Product Overview 

Modern data centers are becoming increasingly massive and complex. Proliferation of new technologies such as 

virtualization is adding yet another level of complexity while enabling higher workloads to be placed on the network. 

Innovations such as Cisco

®

 Unified Fabric unify storage and data networking to deliver convergence, scalability, 

and intelligence with reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and faster return on investment (ROI). IT departments 

today are challenged to look beyond traditional silos of networking and storage to manage this converged, 

virtualized data center as a service. Meeting this challenge calls for unification of the management plane to enable 

holistic management of the data center infrastructure. 

Cisco Prime

™

 Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) provides centralized management of both Ethernet and 

Fibre Channel networks. The converged view enables network and storage administrators to analyze health and 

performance across the range of platforms running the Cisco NX-OS Software operating system covering the 

Cisco Nexus

®

 and Cisco MDS 9000 Families regardless of protocol type. The range of supported protocols and 

overlays includes: 

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Fibre Channel 

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Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) 

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Ethernet 

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IBM Fibre Connection (FICON) 

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Small Computer System over IP (iSCSI) 

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Cisco FabricPath 

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Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) 

Cisco DCNM simplifies deployment of SAN and LAN components through wizard- and template-based provisioning 

and configuration. Role-based access control (RBAC) helps separate configuration of LAN and SAN networks on 

converged network switches. Cisco Prime DCNM supports TACACS+, RADIUS, and Lightweight Directory Access 

Protocol (LDAP) remote authentication protocols to help manage user access to the network and provide audit trail 

of changes made by the user. 

Features and Benefits 

Cisco Prime DCNM offers a number of features and benefits for the data center, discussed here and summarized 

in Table 1 later in this document. 

The product includes five main capabilities: 

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End-to-end visibility 

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Performance and utilization monitoring 

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End-to-end troubleshooting 

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Configuration and provisioning 

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Resilient and scale-out architecture