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Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller

Score8.3 out of 10

28 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller?

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller to control switch Nexus on Data Center fabric

Pros

  • flexible
  • simple

Cons

  • I think that there is room for improvement in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller with interface groups

Return on Investment

  • The impact Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller has on our organization's overall business objectives is the time spent to configure devices

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Nexus Series Switches

Other Software Used

Cisco Catalyst Center

Great NDFC ecosystem.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Solved many problems with datacenter automation. Telemetry and configuration are now simple. We use it to manage switches like Nexus, and to configure the whole fabric was easy and fast.

Pros

  • Automation
  • Telemetry
  • Configuration
  • Managment

Cons

  • Visibility Network.
  • Monitoring interfaces.

Return on Investment

  • Time on configuration.
  • Setup

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager (Cisco EPN-M)

Other Software Used

Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000), Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller for configuring and managing the data center. use Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller to do a policy management user level management and maintain the leaves and spines and external connectivity to the data center manage the virtual servers

Pros

  • Monitoring
  • Configuring
  • Policy management

Cons

  • Debugging
  • Integration

Return on Investment

  • Great support
  • Ecosystem