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 5.1
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. Lack of insight
into this layer affects the ability of network administrators to manage application
services. In addition, the fluidity of the virtual infrastructure, in terms of workload-
driven dynamic resource allocation or virtual server migrations across hosts, poses a
new set of management challenges. In this dynamic environment, network
administrators are not only responsible for troubleshooting application performance
issues but also for making sure that the network is ready to support resource scaling
in real time. This demands deeper network visibility and analytics to present
meaningful and consistent performance information for network administrators.
switching infrastructure becomes critical to manage end-to-end service delivery.
The virtual switching layer extends the network to the virtual servers. Lack of insight
into this layer affects the ability of network administrators to manage application
services. In addition, the fluidity of the virtual infrastructure, in terms of workload-
driven dynamic resource allocation or virtual server migrations across hosts, poses a
new set of management challenges. In this dynamic environment, network
administrators are not only responsible for troubleshooting application performance
issues but also for making sure that the network is ready to support resource scaling
in real time. This demands deeper network visibility and analytics to present
meaningful and consistent performance information for network administrators.
Product Overview
Cisco Prime
™
Network Analysis Module (NAM) for Cisco Nexus
®
1100 Series (Figure 1) allows network
administrators to extend operational 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
NAM and Cisco Virtual Security Gateway (VSG).
Figure 1. Cisco Prime NAM for Cisco Nexus 1100 Series