Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager

Manage a Converged Data Center Fabric

Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) is designed to help you efficiently implement, visualize, and manage Cisco Unified Fabric. It includes a comprehensive feature set, along with a customizable dashboard that provides enhanced visibility and automated fabric provisioning of dynamic data centers.

Features and Capabilities

Cisco Prime DCNM provisions and optimizes the overall uptime and reliability of your data center fabric. This advanced management product:

• Provides self service provisioning of intelligent and scalable fabrics
• Centralizes fabric management to facilitate resource moves, adds, and changes
• Proactively monitors the SAN and LAN, and detects performance degradation
• Opens northbound application programming interfaces (APIs) for Cisco and third-party management and orchestration platforms
• Eases diagnosis and troubleshooting of data center outages
• Simplifies operational management of virtualized data centers

Primary Benefits of Cisco DCNM

• Offers intuitive, large-scale fabric visualization along with domain views
• Provides cable plan validation and detection
• Features a centralized image and configuration repository
• Communicates with Cisco Prime Network Services Controller for physical and virtual service integration
• Helps you resolve problems faster

Use Cisco DCNM for technologies such as:

• Cisco virtual PortChannel (vPC)
• Virtual device context (VDC)
• Cisco FabricPath
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• Fabric zoning and virtual SANs (VSANs)

Featured Products

• Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders
• Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches
• Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches
• Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects
• Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects
• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches
• Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches
• Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders
• Cisco MDS 9700 Series Multilayer Directors
• Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors
• Cisco MDS 9200 Series Multilayer Switches
• Cisco MDS 9100 Series Multilayer Fabric Switches
• Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches
• Cisco NX-OS Software

Packages to Meet Your Needs
Learn about different packages that you can license with Cisco DCNM. (PDF - 425 KB)

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