Cisco Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager 7.2 Guida Informativa
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Product Features
Q. What are the main features of Cisco DCNM for SAN?
A. Table 1 summarizes the main features.
Table 1.
Main Features
Feature
Description
Summary and host dashboards
Offers real-time fabric and network health summary with detailed views of individual network components,
enabling operations staff to respond quickly to events based on their severity
enabling operations staff to respond quickly to events based on their severity
Proactive monitoring
Facilitates early detection and prevention of outages, increasing network availability
Performance and capacity
Provides detailed visibility into real-time and historical performance statistics in the data center
VM-aware discovery and VMpath
analysis
analysis
Provides a view of the virtual path through the physical fabric out to the storage array and to the data store,
offing the capability to view performance for every switch hop to the individual VMware ESX server and virtual
machine
offing the capability to view performance for every switch hop to the individual VMware ESX server and virtual
machine
Topology views
Provides a real-time operationally focused view of the data center infrastructure
Reports
Lets you build custom reports from predefined templates across all fabrics or select an individual fabric
Automated discovery
Provides up-to-date physical and logical inventory information
Configuration and change
management
management
Enables predeployment validation of configuration changes, reducing the opportunities for misconfiguration;
also provides the capability to compare current configuration files and copy back previously backed up files to
the selected switches
also provides the capability to compare current configuration files and copy back previously backed up files to
the selected switches
Image management
Enables easy, nondisruptive (In-Service Software Upgrade [ISSU]) mass deployment of Cisco MDS 9000
SAN-OS and NX-OS Software images, which can be scheduled or run on demand
SAN-OS and NX-OS Software images, which can be scheduled or run on demand
Web Services APIs
Enables easy integration with third-party applications, allowing accurate flow-through provisioning and data
mining using Storage Management Initiative-Specification (SMI-S) and other web services APIs
mining using Storage Management Initiative-Specification (SMI-S) and other web services APIs
Event forwarding
Notifies operations staff through email and pages of critical outages that may affect service
Federation and VSAN scoping
Provides the capability to scale for large and distributed data center deployments while maintaining a single
management console
management console
Cisco Unified Computing System
discovery
discovery
Discovers and monitors the Cisco UCS fabric interconnect
FCoE management
Provides capability to discover, provision, and monitor the FCoE path
Q. What are the new features in Cisco DCNM for SAN 5.2?
A. The new features in Cisco DCNM for SAN 5.2 are:
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At-a-glance operations-focused web-based dashboards
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Summary dashboard highlighting SAN health, top host, and storage ports, with access to detailed key
performance indicators (KPIs)
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Host dashboard, providing visibility into the host-to-storage port path for both physical and virtualized
servers along with contextual performance and inventory information for servers
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VM-aware topology view showing all dependencies from the virtual machine, out to the physical host to the
switch, and out to storage, with one-click access to attributes; VM-aware views increase service availability
by identifying bottlenecks in virtual machine and VMware ESX performance
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VM-aware performance, monitoring CPU, memory, and I/O latency of virtual machines and VMware
ESX servers
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Detailed topology views, providing end-to-end path information across multiple fabric clouds, including the
shortest path and all possible paths to available storage ports
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Performance management enhancements, including the capability to trend and correlate across multiple
performance indicators on a single chart, interactive zooming options, and predictive analysis