Cisco Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module 5.1 for Nexus 1010 Data Sheet

 

 

Data Sheet 

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Figure 1.    Cisco Nexus 1000V NAM Virtual Service Blade Deployment 

 

As an integrated solution, Cisco Nexus 1000V NAM Virtual Service Blade offers real-time traffic analysis views and 

targeted long-term reports to help enable network administrators to analyze and optimize the performance of the 

virtual and physical network. Cisco NAM can analyze NetFlow data exports or ERSPAN packet streams from the 

Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch to gather information on applications, hosts, virtual machines, and conversations.  

Application monitoring identifies every application that has consumed bandwidth, reports how much bandwidth has 

been consumed, and detects which hosts or virtual machines are using which applications. Host and 

conversation-pair monitoring provides bandwidth consumption per host or virtual machine and shows which 

hosts/virtual machines are talking to each other. Monitoring applications, hosts, virtual machines, and conversations 

can help to spot bottlenecks before the virtual network suffers blows to performance and availability. It can also help 

improve the consistency and quality of both individual and overall network services since these metrics reveal usage 

patterns for users as well as for router and switch, interface, server (physical and virtual), and application resources. 

Besides delivering a real-time snapshot of bandwidth usage and consumption, Cisco NAM can also deliver a 

longer-term view (Figure 2) of how the bandwidth was used so the network administrator can analyze trends. The 

information can be used to improve the efficiency of the network to support events such as dynamic resource 

allocation and virtual machine migrations.