Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller vs. Plume Haystack

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (formerly Cisco Data Center Network Manager, or DCNM) is a monitoring and management platform. It is optimized for large organizations and enterprises, particularly with data centers.N/A
Plume Haystack
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Haystack from Plume Design is a back-end software suite for superior subscriber experience management. The solution aims to elevate personalization and performance over basic connectivity to meet the needs of ever-evolving smart homes. It provides end-to-end visibility of a provider's entire network, identifies issues in real-time, provides tools to troubleshoot problems, and offers automated workflows to resolve consumer issues proactively.N/A
Pricing
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric ControllerPlume Haystack
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Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric ControllerPlume Haystack
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric ControllerPlume Haystack
User Ratings
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric ControllerPlume Haystack
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(3 ratings)
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
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Performance
8.5
(3 ratings)
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Product Scalability
7.3
(3 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric ControllerPlume Haystack
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
Datacenter spine life architecture with 2 pods, you can cover any scenario. It's easy to connect the firewall and to deploy the VXLAN configuration.
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Plume Design, Inc
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Cons
Cisco
  • I think that there is room for improvement in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller with interface groups
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Plume Design, Inc
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Likelihood to Renew
Cisco
Renewing NDFC is a smart strategic move. It transforms manual network management into an automated, policy-driven infrastructure. By leveraging real-time telemetry and centralized control for data center LANs and SANs, your organization gains the scalability, visibility, simplicity, and security needed for complex management operations in modern, high-performance data centers ecc
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Plume Design, Inc
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Performance
Cisco
That’s a great automation suits and easy to use
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Plume Design, Inc
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Alternatives Considered
Cisco
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller is much more efficient and programmable; EPN is like template-ready software without automation. Instead, NDFC is very useful during configuration and deployment.
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Plume Design, Inc
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Scalability
Cisco
Security has been a great paramount from day one
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Plume Design, Inc
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Return on Investment
Cisco
  • Time on configuration.
  • Setup
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Plume Design, Inc
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