Cisco Cisco Nexus 1010 Virtual Services Appliance 数据表

 

 

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Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module Software 5.1 for Nexus 1010 

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. 

Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module (NAM) for Nexus 1010 allows network administrators to extend operational 

visibility into Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch deployments (Figure 1). 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 machine; as an 

alternate deployment scenario, the 

 can host multiple Virtual Supervisor 

Modules (VSM) along with a number of Virtual Service Blades (VSBs) such as Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module 

(NAM) and Cisco Virtual Security Gateway (VSG). 

The Cisco Prime portfolio of enterprise and service provider management offerings supports integrated lifecycle 

management of Cisco architectures and technologies based on a service-centric framework. Built on an intuitive 

workflow-oriented user experience, Cisco Prime products help increase IT productivity and reduce operations costs 

through innovative management solutions for the network services, infrastructure, and endpoints. 

Integrated with the Cisco Nexus 1010 appliance, the Cisco Prime NAM offers combined network and application 

performance visibility essential to address service delivery challenges in next-generation data centers. The Cisco 

Prime NAM for Nexus 1010 allows you to effectively use embedded management features, such as Encapsulated 

Remote Switched Port Analyzer (ERSPAN) and NetFlow, on the Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch to: 

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Analyze network usage behavior by application, host/VM, and conversation to identify bottlenecks that may 

affect performance and availability 

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Troubleshoot performance issues with extended visibility into VM-to-VM traffic, virtual interface statistics, and 

application response times 

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Assess impact on network behavior due to changes such as VM migration, new application deployment, and 

port profile update 

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Improve the efficiency of your virtual infrastructure and distributed application components with 

comprehensive traffic analysis 

As a distinctive advantage, Cisco Prime NAM allows you to monitor the network and virtual machines uninterrupted 

by VMotion operations.