Cisco Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module 5.1 for Nexus 1010 Data Sheet
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Data Sheet
Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module Software 6.1
for Cisco Nexus 1100 Series
for Cisco Nexus 1100 Series
As mission-critical workloads migrate to virtual servers, visibility into the virtual
switching infrastructure becomes critical to manage end-to-end service delivery.
The virtual switching layer extends the network to the virtual servers. In addition, the
fluidity of the virtual infrastructure, in terms of workload-driven dynamic resource
allocation or virtual server migrations, poses a new set of management challenges.
Lack of insight into this layer affects the ability to effectively manage the delivery of
applications and services.
switching infrastructure becomes critical to manage end-to-end service delivery.
The virtual switching layer extends the network to the virtual servers. In addition, the
fluidity of the virtual infrastructure, in terms of workload-driven dynamic resource
allocation or virtual server migrations, poses a new set of management challenges.
Lack of insight into this layer affects the ability to effectively manage the delivery of
applications and services.
Product Overview
Cisco Prime
™
Network Analysis Module (NAM) for Cisco Nexus
®
1100 Series (Figure 1) allows network
administrators to extend visibility into Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch deployments. The Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch is a
software switch on a server that delivers Cisco
®
Virtual Network Link (VN-Link) services to virtual machines (VMs)
hosted on that server. This distributed switch has two major components: the Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM) and
the Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM), which manages the VEMs. A VSM can itself be deployed as a virtual
multiple VSMs along with a number of Virtual Service Blades (VSBs) such as Cisco Prime NAM and Cisco Virtual
Security Gateway (VSG).
Figure 1. Cisco Prime NAM for Cisco Nexus 1100 Series