Cisco Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager 6.1 Bulletins
Product Bulletin
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Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager
Release 7.1
Release 7.1
PB733518
Cisco Prime
™
Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) software is an advanced network management system
(NMS) for storage, LAN, and scalable fabric management. Cisco Prime DCNM Release 7.1 adds storage area
networking (SAN) and general-purpose LAN management functions to the scalable Data Center fabric
management functions of Cisco Prime DCNM Release 7.
Cisco Prime DCNM 7.1 continues to support multitenant cloud deployments and scalable fabric management by
integrating with popular hypervisor solutions such as VMware vCloud Director and OpenStack alongside
orchestration mechanisms such as Cisco UCS
®
Director. Cisco Prime DCNM 7.1 provides a virtual appliance form
factor to simplify deployment and reduce labor and operating expenses (OpEx).
New Features
VXLAN Fabric Management
Cisco Prime DCNM 7.1 includes new management functions for Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) technology. New
features include a topology view, search capabilities, and Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) status, and
inventory. Users can view VXLAN overlays and search a multicast group for VNI members (Figure 1).