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Cisco Nexus Dashboard

Pepa Venzhöfer
Technical Solutions Specialist – CCIE DC#59794
1.3.2022
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Operational challenges in the hybrid cloud
Discover and plan Analyze and predict Change and remediate

Customer Cloud operational platform

expectations

Fragmented insights

Multiple
No single pane of glass
telemetry sources

High MTTR No correlation

Challenges
Siloed data stacks Disjointed ops infra

Distributed data sources High TCO

 Multiple Data
Center Sites
Physical Servers Virtual Machines

Provision Manage Secure

L4-L7 & ADC

Containers

Multiple Clouds

The network plays a critical role to connect the business anywhere

 Multiple Data
Center Sites

Physical Servers Virtual Machines

ACI
Nexus NX-OS
Dashboard

Containers L4-L7 & ADC

Multiple Clouds

Configure the network once, deploy, monitor and secure anywhere

Platforma

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Nexus Dashboard
Simple to automate, simple to consume

Insights Data broker

Orchestrator Custom/third-party

NDFC

Consume all services in one place

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Service integrations

Connectivity, Segmentation and Visibility

SD-WAN vManage Cisco Nexus Intersight

DC-Branch and DC-Cloud Dashboard Nexus Infrastructure visibility for
WAN optimization Compute and Storage Ops

DNA Center AppDynamics

Consistent Enterprise
user identity Network visibility into
app performance
End-end segmentation
ThousandEyes
Cross domain visibility for
NetOps, SecOps and DevOps
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Deployment options

Shipping Shipping Future

Physical Cisco ND platform Virtual/cloud Cisco

NDaaS*
cluster ND platform
 Federation Architecture

• User configures an ND cluster as • FM uses Site Managers (SM) on all

Federation manager (FM) and SM FM ND clusters to replicate this
connects it to other ND clusters information for local
• FM manages the federation keeping queries/display
track of member cluster reachability,
ND Cluster 1 • APIGW is used to sync keys (for
node status, sites. etc. accessing data) between
APIGW federation members

APIGW APIGW APIGW

ND Cluster 2 ND Cluster 3 ND Cluster 4

SM SM SM
ND Cluster attached to any Networking Infra
Fabric A Fabric B Fabric C

L3out L3out Inband

INB VRF INB VRF Mgmt

L3 Network
• Apps on ND talk via Data Interface IP to Inband Management
Data Interface
Network in mgmt. tenant of ACI fabrics or the Inband Mgmt of
DCNM based fabrics
• IP reachability to all ACI/DCNM fabrics is established via L3out to
Inband Management Network in INB VRF in each ACI fabric
• For DCNM based Fabrics the connectivity is done to the inband
Cisco Nexus Dashboard cluster
Mgmt of the DCNM and the switches.
Management Interface

Management
Network
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ACI Anywhere
Nexus Dashboard
Orchestrator

Site 4
Site 2 Site 3
Site 1

Google Cloud Platform

VM VM VM
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

Consistent Network and Secure Automated Single Point of Secure Automated Cloud only
Policy Connectivity Orchestration Connectivity (Multi-Cloud)
Migration
Original MSO Cluster NDO as an App on ND

Rollback config to
3 the backup file

Export Import
backup 1 2 backup

Backup file

Note: this procedure is only supported for SW upgrades but not for SW downgrades

Migration to ND for NDO is free

Multi-cloud ready Hypervisor variety
(ND and NDO are free)
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Overview

Assurance Troubleshooting
Am I doing correct configuration? Where is the problem and what’s the
Are interdependencies known? blast radius?
Does the change impact something How do I reduce MTTR?
am not aware of? How do I prove network is healthy?

Operations

Proactive advisories Single-pane-of-glass

Was the issue preventable? Can I get visibility across
Is the network exposed to known datacenters?
vulnerabilities? Single point for monitor and
Can I get proactive advice? control?
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Sources of Ingest Derive Suggest
Telemetry Data and Process Insights Action

Config file
Syslog Anomaly Flows
Tech-support Metadata
extraction
RIB
FIB
Accounting logs
Correlate
Debug logs
against dBase
Streaming telemetry Predictive Root Proactive
failure cause Action
Environmental
Event history Complex
Cores correlation

Consistency checkers

Proactive Operations : Increase Availability, Performance and Simplify Operations

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Feature set
Configuration assurance Explorer
Assurance and Pre-change analysis Change management
compliance
Delta analysis Communication compliance

One View Flow analytics

Visibility and AppDynamics integration Capacity planning

troubleshooting Endpoint analytics Topology view

Connectivity analysis Microbursts detection

Upgrade assist Advisories

Advisory and PSIRT notification Field notices
maintenance
TAC assist Email notifications
The problem: Finding where the problem is

App Owners/Team
(SysAdmin/DBA/Dev) Cloud Architects
(incl. network, compute
and storage)

- $ 5600/minute of
downtime

Network Admins
(Virtual/Physical/ Storage Admins
Container/Cloud) (Converged/ Hyperconverged
Compute Admins SAN/NAS/iSCSI)
(Windows/Linux/
Bare-metal/Virtual)
Traditional troubleshooting workflow

User raised a trouble Performed hop-by-hop NetOps worked with RCA: Misbehaving
ticket for erratic diagnostics and found multiple teams/tools process on server is
access to ERP everything ok but found nothing causing application
wrong with the network performance issue

9:00 9:30 11:00 12:00 14:00 15:00 16:00

NetOps suspected Ops (Network

NetOps checked application misbehaving. and others)
connectivity e.g., User reported There are back and forth
ping, trace, routing recurrence calls with app team(s) User
Now with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights

User raised a trouble NetOps looks at application RCA: Misbehaving

ticket for erratic anomalies and notices process on server is
access to ERP performance impacting events causing application
detected performance issue

9:00 9:03 9:05 9:07 9:10

NetOps cross verifies with Ops (Network

NetOps checks flow Flow information and and others)
health information, time series-based app
and it is green performance data User

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Dashboard Insights
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How to buy Nexus Dashboard Insights
Software included with Switch subscription licenses

DCN Day2Ops
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights

DCN Advantage DCN Premier

Multi DC Cisco Nexus Dashboard Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights
Orchestrator and Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator
(DCN Advantage)

or

Single DC
(DCN Essential)

Install Base (ACI/NX-OS) New Purchase (ACI/NX-OS)

Shrnutí

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Solve Multicloud Networking Operations Challenges

Assurance

Cloud Container Hypervisor

networking
Troubleshooting
Data
center

Colocation

Private
cloud IoT Proactive advisories
edge

Need for homogenous experience across heterogenous cloud environments