Manage a Converged Data Center Fabric

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Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) optimizes the overall uptime and reliability of your data center infrastructure and helps improve business continuity. This advanced management product:

• Automates provisioning of data center LAN and SAN elements
• Proactively monitors the SAN and LAN, and detects performance degradation
• Helps secure the data center network
• Eases diagnosis and troubleshooting of data center outages
• Simplifies operational management of virtualized data centers

Main Benefits of Cisco DCNM

• Proactive monitoring and issue diagnostics for faster troubleshooting
• Performance and capacity monitoring and trending for SAN and LAN infrastructures
• Virtual-machine-aware path analytics and performance monitoring
• Simplified deployment of innovative Cisco NX-OS features
• Easy-to-use provisioning

Use Cisco DCNM for technologies such as:

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

Cisco DCNM is designed to manage converged data center fabric and features. It provides data center operational dashboards and topology views, as well as:

• Proactive and real-time operational monitoring of the network
• Historical performance and capacity trends of the data center network
• End-to-end path analytics for virtualized environments
• Comprehensive provisioning and monitoring of multihop FCoE deployments
• Simplified provisioning of important Cisco NX-OS innovations