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• Virtual machine-aware path management
  Cisco Prime DCNM extends network visibility to virtual infrastructure by mapping the entire path from the virtual machine and switch to the physical storage and Ethernet networks. The Cisco VMpath feature that is part of the host dashboard provides views to help troubleshoot the performance of a virtual machine and virtual host while also reporting on the health and performance of the network and storage paths. The virtual machine-aware dashboard displays performance charts, path attributes, topology, path alerts, and information about the utilization of virtual machines and virtual hosts. The increased visibility into virtualized infrastructure helps IT administrators locate performance anomalies that may be causing service degradation as well as eliminate virtual computing and networking as a root cause of the problem.
• Planning: performance trending and forecasting
  By analyzing historic performance and projecting future bandwidth consumption, Cisco Prime DCNM helps IT departments understand the baseline traffic pattern for a deployed application and identify any performance anomalies that may affect customer service levels. Cisco Prime DCNM also helps IT design teams plan new deployments and redesign existing deployments based on peak utilization information collected as far back as a year or more. By monitoring historic performance, the design team can optimize switch consolidation activities by choosing modules with higher port densities based on the performance of applications, thus reducing the need to deploy more switches, reducing power utilization, and leaving more tile space in the data center for computing and storage resources.
• Troubleshooting: event management
  Cisco Prime DCNM consolidates all the events on the network, such as threshold breaches and switch and path alerts, and tracks configuration changes by individual network and storage administrators that may have caused outages or performance degradation. In addition, the Cisco Prime DCNM event-forwarding mechanism notifies, in real time, the appropriate email address, pager, or third-party management application when predefined thresholds are breached or the health of the network affected. The IT administrator can then acknowledge the alert in the event dashboard and, after the problem is resolved, delete the alert.
• Domain views
  Through the concept of domain dashboards, Cisco Prime DCNM creates contextual views of the host, switch, and storage infrastructure. These views help IT administrators identify individual components and display their health and performance attributes. In addition, Cisco Prime DCNM provides a search engine that launches these dashboards in the context of the search attributes. IT administrators can in seconds determine the source of a network problem, thus reducing the outage time or preventing an outage from occurring in the first place.
• Configuration and provisioning: web templates
  Cisco Prime DCNM provides IT administrators with wizards and predefined scripts for deploying configuration changes to Ethernet and storage networks. Wizard-based provisioning guides IT staff through the provisioning of hosts, Inter-Switch Links (ISLs) and trunks, and storage ports, regardless of whether the ports reside on the physical or virtual Cisco switch. In addition, Cisco Prime DCNM provides predefined template scripts for common tasks, which administrators also can customize; administrators also can import their own scripts into template formats and store them in the template repository.
• Capacity Manager: managing port capacity by tier
  Understanding resource consumption is essential to increase throughput of applications and projects into the data center. To help prevent the Ethernet or storage network from becoming a bottleneck in this process, Cisco Prime DCNM helps track port utilization by tier, and through trending capacity manager predicts when an individual tier will be consumed. The information provides the capacity management team with enough time to order more ports or switches, thus reducing the risk that the network will become a bottleneck for application and project throughput. Increased throughput allows organizations to grow at a quicker pace, while reducing operational and capital expenses and most importantly improving overall customer experience.

Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) combines management of both Ethernet and storage networks in a single dashboard. The dashboard enables network and storage administrators to troubleshoot health and performance across the whole range of Cisco NX-OS Software platforms, including the Cisco Nexus and Cisco MDS 9000 Families, regardless of protocol type such as Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Ethernet, IBM Fibre Connection (FICON), and Small Computer System over IP (iSCSI). By using Cisco DCNM, IT administrators can identify available port capacity, reclaim orphaned ports, and maintain inventory of logical and physical switch components. Cisco DCNM also simplifies deployment SAN and LAN components by providing wizard- and template-based provisioning and configuration. Role-based access control (RBAC) helps separate configuration of LAN and SAN networks on converged network switches. DCNM supports TACACS+, RADIUS, and now Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) remote authentication protocols to help manage user access to switching infrastructure.