Cisco Nexus Dashboard simplifies data-center networks with automation and analytics. The data-center network helps organizations to meet business demands, and provision reliable data-center networking services as fast as possible, when and where organizations need it. As network infrastructure management is becoming more complex, diverse, and distributed, with multiple configuration points, monitoring tools, and vast amounts of data being generated every second. Cisco Nexus Dashboard is…
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PacketTrap (Discontinued)
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PacketTrap was network monitoring software acquired by Dell but discontinued in 2013.
I've never used another product like Nexus Dashboard therefore I'm not able to compare it to other products, however, I had high hopes that we would be able to use ND for years to come to make NDFC, NDI, and switch upgrades easier and faster. Unfortunately, we are moving away …
Microsoft's System Center is easy to deploy when you are using Microsoft products and in a Microsoft environment. However if you are not in a MSFT environment then doesn't give you specialized networking capabilities like Cisco Nexus Dashboard. Aruba networks has good …
As Cisco Nexus Dashboard offers multiple features within a single node, there is no other product we have seen in the market that comes close to Cisco Nexus Dashboard feature wise.
I have tried using SolarWinds specifically the previous Network configuration manager the log analyzer. When I compare them with Cisco Nexus Dashboard snapshots, delta analysis, and connectivity analysis, we can say that Cisco Nexus Dashboard raises the bar way higher. It gives …
Comparing Nexus Dashboard to Splunk Enterprise, I can say that Splunk was a product with greater capabilities, but it required significantly more implementation expertise than Nexus Dashboard.Moreover, the complex underlying architecture of Splunk required greater involvement …
With NI we now have capability to go deep into Fabric and understand the flow. It offers us one single plane of glass for everything we have within our ACI Fabrics in the DatCenter
Nexus Dashboard is far more comprehensive than NetBrain. NetBrain's advantage, in my opinion, is in traditional and single - particle setups, whereas the [Cisco] Nexus Dashboard excels in a clean Cisco ACI context.
Again, the main piece was config backups. That is a real big deal, when you are dealing with a lot of customers that don't have a change management process. So changes can be done to a networking device and we need to be able to review what it was one day and what it changed to …
Nexus Dashboard is a vital tool for Cisco data center Nexus deployments, in my opinion. By utilizing multiple applications in the suite, a business can utilize orchestration, monitor services and traffic, test deployment scenarios, verify upgrade processes and readiness, etc. The capabilities of the system can allow for SAN MDS controls, traditional Nexus NXOS integration, and/or essential ACI tools
I would have said 10 if they didn't kill the product. I know Blue Folder took a piece of this, but we never got into it and just changed to Auvik and PRTG.
It provides monitoring for our overall ACI Fabric which includes the Controller, Spine, and Leaf Switches.
It gives you a single pane of visibility of all of your ACI fabric using Nexus Dashboard, no need to login to each of the multiple ACI fabric controllers.
Provides an assurance analysis to to your ACI fabric before implementing any change in configuration, they have the Pre-change analysis prior to the firmware upgrade.
Gives you the overall health of your Fabric and provides anomaly severity.
Flow Telemetry - Need to overcome the restrictions of 20000 flow/sec. No DataCenter is small enough to pump only 20K flows per second. And we want to use this product for proactive monitoring so we cannot decide on a small segment to monitor flow for beforehand.
Creating tags and label for clubbing certain entities so that we can create customized dashboards to monitor and provide access to Operations team
Scheduled Reports and Reporting capability is lacking
I think Nexus Dashboard is a phenomenal product, allowing us to simplify, automate and troubleshoot our network. It has helped me greatly in my drive towards private cloud. Furthermore the innovations I'm seeing from the product teams is very exciting
For the end user, it is relatively easy to use. However, some training and practice is a must because the NSO is not as straightforward as the traditional router CLI. For the administrator, Cisco Network Service Orchestrator (NSO) is just like another program running on the Linux system--there is no big difference.
Great and effective automation functionalities and the tools on network security management are the best and easy data reports building. Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller feature for the network monitoring and easy management of various services and even offers the best analytics and also powerful integration tools for easy data migration.
here was never a need to contact support, as the system includes several commands that allow for self-healing. Even if, after the upgrade process, one of the processes was not running, I was able to quickly find the appropriate sequence of commands that definitively resolved the issue. The entire architecture was designed in such a way as to be resilient to the failure of one node in a three-server setup.
Honestly, the product implementation took 1–2 days to comprehensively manage the client’s entire infrastructure. The delivered on-premise solution, provided as physical servers, quickly builds the required environment in which individual data centers are rapidly added. The data collection process takes some time but also depends on the number of devices in the network.
The Cisco Nexus Series switches perform admirably in our blended distributed system. We have been dealing with any of these sorts of switches for over 5 years and have been exceptionally happy with their functionality. Several of our other computer networks in our data rooms have proved effective with Cisco equipment. Because of the simplicity of maintenance and the high quality of technical support provided by Cisco representatives, there is a high level of trust in these switches.
Again, the main piece was config backups. That is a real big deal, when you are dealing with a lot of customers that don't have a change management process. So changes can be done to a networking device and we need to be able to review what it was one day and what it changed to the next. This happens a lot with internal IT departments, that break something and you support them as an MSP.
The platform is very well done, and to date, I have had no complaints about the implementation of the platform and no security issues or vulnerabilities. Cisco in all its product releases new versions to resolve security issues or bugs that appear on the platform, this is a big plus.
Because it guarantees us expandable network services and without any interruption, providing a better service to each of our clients has been possible.
It has allowed us to keep the services innovated, doing this process in a reduced time, since it does not require a long programming, so implementing new services is done at a rapid pace.
Its automation has allowed us to reduce the burden of manual configurations, so having errors has also decreased.
Because it is based on an automation and orchestration model, providing faster and larger-scale services is possible.
