Slides APJC NDI Top Use Cases Webinar Apr2024

Nexus Dashboard Insights
Top Use Cases and Demos

Jayesh Singh, Rahul Nema - Technical Marketing Engineer, DCN BU
April 2024
• Modern Datacenter Ops Challenges
• Introduction to Nexus Dashboard

Platform and Services
Agenda – Day 1 • Nexus Dashboard Insights (NDI)

Deep Dive
• NDI Scale and Deployment Options
• NDI Use Cases Overview
• Demo
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• More Demos (cont.)
Agenda – Day 2 • Experience the New Nexus

Dashboard - Cisco dCloud
• Conclusion
Life of a [data center] network-admin
Provision the network Innovation and growth
Tasks Business Impact
Operate the network Reliability, risk control,

(troubleshoot, fix, analyze) brand, user experience
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Communication between users/devices & apps
Perception
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Today’s reality
Apps Apps
TGW/VNGs/IP Tables Services* VMs Containers Users Edge Devices
Cloud1 VPCs/VNets Cloud Routers Campus Core & Access IoT Switches
Cloud Interconnect SP Services* Campus/Branch Interconnect
Middle Milers IPSec SD-WAN MPLS/SR DC Interconnect
IDS/NAMs SLBs/GSLBs Firewalls Other Services Optical (xWDM)
Data Centers L3/L2 Switch VXLAN Switch DPU Switch SAN Switch
1 Blade Servers NICs/DPUs FIs/Blade Mods NICs/DPUs IP Storage Disk Arrays
IP Tables Virtual Bridges Virtual Switch Rack Servers
Service Mesh API Gateways Containers VMs Apps 1

Security
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7 the DC)
Networking challenges
Limited visibility
Connectivity
Provisioning Troubleshooting Operations
Security
Analytics
Risk & Compliance
Business Impact
Solution
Available now!
Cisco Nexus Dashboard - Platform
Highlights
5
Optimized resources and scale
Multi-cluster support
All services in one place
Automated deployment
New modern and simplified

look and feel!
*Admin Console UI displayed above available in Nexus Dashboard 3.1.

Nexus Dashboard
Services
Provisioning Controller Orchestrator
Integrations
Initial setup Automation Custom configuration
Operations Insights Visibility Analytics Troubleshooting Compliance
Access to Nexus Dashboard services/features is based on the Cisco Nexus 9000 switch license tier
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Licensing
Now available for every license level
Effe
ctiv
e No
v4
Tuning the Licensing Tiers , 20
24
Select Nexus Dashboard Insights features now in Essentials and Advantage tiers
Nexus Dashboard Essentials Advantage Premier

Services
Insights New All Features

New
Orchestrator
Controller
No Nexus without Nexus Dashboard See more details
ND 3.1
Nexus Dashboard
March 2024
1 physical-node support (ACI only)

1 Numbers may vary based on redundancy, enabled services and design guidelines
Nexus Dashboard Cluster

3 virtual nodes1
SMB/Edge SMB/Edge
Up to 20 switches1 Up to 50 switches1
Node 1 Node 2 Node 3

1 physical node (no virtual) ND 3.1

Node 1 3 physical nodes
Data Center
Up to 300 switches1
Multi-cluster
support

6 physical nodes
Data Center
Up to 750 switches1
For prior releases or cohosting details with other apps see ND Capacity Planning Tool
Start Small | Grow as needed | Manage Centrally

ND 3.1
Nexus Dashboard
March 2024
Onboard sites with standalone NX-OS switches
Visibility Analytics Troubleshooting Compliance
Nexus Dashboard
Insights
NEW!
ACI
Standalone NDFC
Centralize management | All fabric types | Supported for Insights

How Does It Work?
Sources of Notify and

Ingest and Process Derive Insights
Telemetry Data Recommend Action
Config File
PSIRTs Complex
Syslog Tech-Support Config / Scale / Process
correlation
Hardening
Accounting RIB FIB
Metadata
Logs Debug Logs
CLI extraction
Streaming
Telemetry Environmentals
Event Topology Cores Correlate
History Field notices Network SW-Version /
Consistency against
Checkers Database Protocols PSIRTs
Mac Table
Reduce Time to Problem Awareness, Action and Resolution

Under the Hood
Multiple Services run on top of
Insights
Nexus
Nexus Dashboard platform
Dashboard
Provides AI and Time Series Data for

Analytics Engine easy searching and correlation
Data Lake Data is stored and can be

Export exported via syslog or Kafka
Data and telemetry is collected from

Collectors many different sources
NDFC Switches Servers L4-L7 Services

VMs and others
ND 3.1
March 2024

Feature support
COMMON FEATURES
ACI NX-OS NDFC
ACI NDFC NX-OS

Visibility & Troubleshooting
ONLY Capacity utilization ONLY
Topology view Explorer2
Inventory AppDynamics integration Flow analytics3
Endpoints Sustainability Microburst detection
Compliance Visibility & Troubleshooting
Environments Connectivity analysis1 Statistics
Pre-change analysis Delta Analysis vCenter integration TAC Assist RoCEv2 traffic monitoring (PFC/ECN)
Policy CAM analyzer Routing Protocols Multicast traffic monitoring
Configuration compliance Traffic Analytics
Communication compliance Best Practices Advisories
Advisories & Compliance
Scale Scale
SW/HW Conformance Assurance analysis
50 switches on 3 node vND Defect scan Scale compliance 50 NDFC switches on 3 node vND
300 switches on 3 node pND PSIRT notification Field notices 250 NX-OS switches on 3 node pND
750 switches on 6 node pND 300 NDFC switches on 3 node pND*
Infra 500 NDFC switches on 6 node pND
Data retention DNS integration

NDO+NDI co-hosting: 100 switches on 3 node pND NDI+NDFC co-hosting: 250 switches on 3 node pND
Email notification Air-gap support
Enhanced Classic LAN not currently supported (3.2 target)
Kafka messaging Custom dashboards and ToR limitations may apply
SSO Syslog
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2 “Can” queries not supported on NDFC/NX-OS
3 L4-L7 stitching only available for ACI Flow analytics
Nexus Dashboard – Operate
Insights Use Cases
Leverage the Simplify

Provide reliable
power of Network
workload Risk reduction
telemetry and Operations
connectivity
analytics with AIOps
Insights Use Cases
Nexus Dashboard
Visibility Insights
Leverage the
power of
telemetry and
analytics
New look now available!
Leverage the power of telemetry and analytics
View and access all your sites and fabrics from a single place
Visibility
Overview Learn about anomalies and advisories in your network
Global View Get trends, traffic stats and inventory
Zoom in from global map to a site, switch, interface and VM/Endpoint
Easily onboard NX-OS switches1 and ACI fabrics

Telemetry is streamed to Nexus Dashboard
Visibility Online Sites Inventory, Anomalies and Advisories displayed within minutes
Site Snapshots option for sites that can’t connect initially
1
NX-OS switches supported through Fabric Controller.
Standalone NX-OS switches support in Roadmap.
Online sites continuously stream to Nexus Dashboard

Visibility Site Snapshots If that is not possible initially, snapshots may help
Snapshots provide anomalies, advisories & other health checks
Only available for ACI fabrics
Snapshot File
snapshot2.tar.gz
Date from Sept 4-10, 2024
Nexus Dashboard
Insights
Snapshot File
snapshot1.tar.gz
Date from Sept 4-10, 2024
Insights Use Cases
Analytics Proactively detect and resolve issues through Anomaly

detection to minimize downtime
Learn about Best-Practices, Field Notifications and

PSIRTs affecting your network through Advisories
Make a difference by knowing your network’s Co2

Simplify emissions, associated costs and kWh consumption
Network
Operations
with AIOps Reduce finger-pointing
Flow Telemetry can identify impacted traffic flows with

precision accuracy reducing MTTR and MTTI.
Simplify Network Operations with AIOps
Detect potential issues that may impact uptime

Know what is wrong, the impact of anomalies and how to fix them
Analytics Anomalies Toggle between grouped and ungrouped views
Online sites and Snapshot view options with historical information
Anomaly Enhancements
Initial effort focused on interface and endpoint anomalies

Ongoing long-term enhancement from Q3CY22
Severity Levels
Critical (red) Major (orange) Warning Healthy

Network down or Network potentially Network impacted, All good
Compliance Violation down but still operational
Anomaly Categories
Hardware Capacity Compliance Connectivity Configuration Active Bugs Integrations
Deprecate irrelevant | Reduce false positives | Re-align severity, format & UI | Enhance recommendations
Avoid wasting time finding release notes and reduce risk

Instant Software and Hardware End-of-Life (EoL) notifications
Analytics Advisories Receive PSIRTs and Field Notices affecting your environment
Get Cisco best practices based on your configuration
Identify Traffic Flows/Paths and Potential Impact

5-tuple flow visibility across the datacenter fabric
Analytics Flow Telemetry Latency, drops and flow anomalies are visible in real time.
Reduce MTTR and MTTI and get to root cause quicker
ND 3.1
March 2024

Traffic Analytics – General Availability (NXOS)
NX-OS initial support (ACI in 3.2)
Congestion, Latency, Drops
Customize categories
Detect potential issues, top talkers faster
Auto-discovered services (Web, FTP, etc)
Pervasive - Filters/Rules not needed
Requires: NXOS – 10.4.2
3 & 6 node cluster | FX and later platforms | 1-week data retention

Understand the carbon footprint of managed devices

Analytics Sustainability Learn about the energy sources your sites consume
Get historical views and progress including kWh and cost
Insights Use Cases
Explore IPs, MACs and switches across your sites and

get to the information you need faster1
Troubleshooting
Analyze Connectivity between 2 endpoints and

displaying their forwarding path and policies between
them2
With Delta Analysis, learn about changes in your

network between 2 points in time
Provide reliable
Reduce finger-pointing
workload
connectivity
Flow Telemetry can identify impacted traffic flows with
precision accuracy reducing MTTR and MTTI.
Need to go back in time?

Access historical information for anomalies, advisories,
sustainability and more
1 Explore available on Nexus Dashboard, Search in Roadmap 1HCY24
Quickly search and find what you are looking for

Learn which endpoints and elements can communicate and how
Troubleshooting Explore Fill-ahead help accelerates result finding
Filter results based on site and time range
ND 3.0
Available now!

Flow Telemetry Remote Storage
Flow telemetry NFS

Basic 5 Tuple
5 Tuple flow data in

readable JSON Latency
Ingress & Egress
VM VM VM
External NAS Packet Drop

Storage*
Source & Destination IP
*Supplied by customer
Store flow telemetry records for audits | Unlimited retention time

Visualize endpoint communication paths in hardware

Visualize transit route, ports and policies
Troubleshooting Connectivity Analysis Add ELAM information and traffic distribution
Integrate latency, drops and flows to your analysis
Compare two points in time

Get anomaly and advisory status changes
Troubleshooting Delta Analysis Learn about routes and endpoints changes
Easily identify configuration changes
Operate your Simplify

network infra Provide reliable
Network
your way workload Risk reduction
Operations
connectivity
with AIOps
(from cloud | as product)
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Compliance Enforce Compliance by defining your own configuration

rules and get notified when they are not met
Enforce Conformance and avoid running End-of-

Support inventory while keeping your networks under
Cisco Verified Scalability Limits without manual searches
Save time with software recommendations and

minimize risk with customized upgrade plans, pre and
Risk reduction post upgrade analysis.
Test configuration changes for potential issues before

deploying to production with pre-change analysis.
Ensure network configurations adhere to your compliance rules

Compliance Compliance Define naming convention and settings that must be followed
Receive compliance anomalies if rules are violated
Reduce risk by keeping your network in conformance with Cisco

Learn about Software or Hardware running under EoL
Compliance Conformance Get a 6 and 18-months outlooks to prevent End of Support
Find if your network is running above Cisco Scalability Limits
Understand the impact of upgrades before performing them

Compliance Software Ensure things came back to normal with post-update analysis
Streamline upgrade processes
Management
Simulate configuration changes and evaluate impact

Compliance Pre-Change Avoid downtime by catching mistakes and misconfigurations beforehand
Reduce risk of compliance violations
Analysis Ensure the intended outcome of the change is applied with confidence
Demo
Demo
• ND and NDI UI walk-through, sites, connectivity, anomalies, advisories
• Upgrade your fabric with confidence - Software management
• Stay conformant and future proof (Hardware, Software and Scale)
• Verify connectivity and end-to-end path - Connectivity Analysis
• Automated Network Compliance - Golden config, Naming convention, Communication rules
• How to troubleshoot an application connectivity issue?
• Track datacenter energy consumption and carbon footprint – Sustainability
• ACI Ansible CI/CD pipeline with NDI Pre-change analysis
Top Use Cases and Demos – Day 2
Jayesh Singh, Rahul Nema, Amit Kumar - Technical Marketing Engineer, DCN BU
April 2024
• NDI Use Cases Demo
Agenda – Day 2 • Experience the New ND 3.0 and

NDI 6.3 - Cisco dCloud
• Conclusion
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Demo
• ND and NDI UI walk-through, sites, connectivity, anomalies, advisories
• Upgrade your fabric with confidence - Software management
• Stay conformant and future proof (Hardware, Software and Scale)
• Verify connectivity and end-to-end path - Connectivity Analysis
• Automated Network Compliance - Golden config, Naming convention, Communication rules
• How to troubleshoot an application connectivity issue?
• Track datacenter energy consumption and carbon footprint – Sustainability
• ACI Ansible CI/CD pipeline with NDI Pre-change analysis
Next steps
Experience Nexus Dashboard Insights with ACI at Cisco dCloud. Click here
Experience Nexus Dashboard Insights with NDFC at Cisco dCloud. Click here
Learn more about Nexus Dashboard Insights. Click here
Summary
Keep the network Avoid outages with Rapidly remediate Control multiple
state compliant with precautionary and with automated, datacenters with
your intent. proactive advisory correlated insights single pane of glass
Included with every Cisco Nexus 9000
Tiered-licensing purchase
Consumption choice, single licensing

Cisco Nexus Dashboard: Provisioning and/or Day 2 Operations
Simple, modern, useful

Cisco Nexus Dashboard 3.1
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights 6.4
Innovate, minimize risk and downtime

Leverage the power of automation and analytics
Go beyond the switch port
Always connected to Cisco TAC1
1
When connected to Intersight and leveraging TAC Assist
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Overview
https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/dcn/nd/3x/
articles-311/nexus-dashboard-overview-311.pdf
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights for the Data Center

Data Sheet
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/data-
center-analytics/nexus-insights/datasheet-c78-
742685.html
Useful Links Nexus Dashboard Capacity Planning

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/dcn/tools/n
d-sizing/index.html
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Deployment Guide, Release

3.0.x
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/dcn/nd/3x/deplo
yment/cisco-nexus-dashboard-and-services-
deployment-guide-311.html
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Troubleshooting, Release 3.0.x

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/dcn/nd/3x/
articles-311/nexus-dashboard-troubleshooting-311.pdf

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Nexus Dashboard Insights

Top Use Cases and Demos

• Introduction to Nexus Dashboard

Agenda – Day 1 • Nexus Dashboard Insights (NDI)

• NDI Use Cases Overview

Agenda – Day 2 • Experience the New Nexus

Provision the network Innovation and growth

Tasks Business Impact

Operate the network Reliability, risk control,

Cloud Interconnect SP Services* Campus/Branch Interconnect

Middle Milers IPSec SD-WAN MPLS/SR DC Interconnect

IDS/NAMs SLBs/GSLBs Firewalls Other Services Optical (xWDM)

1 Blade Servers NICs/DPUs FIs/Blade Mods NICs/DPUs IP Storage Disk Arrays

IP Tables Virtual Bridges Virtual Switch Rack Servers

Service Mesh API Gateways Containers VMs Apps 1

Risk & Compliance

Cisco Nexus Dashboard - Platform

Optimized resources and scale

All services in one place

New modern and simplified

*Admin Console UI displayed above available in Nexus Dashboard 3.1.

Provisioning Controller Orchestrator

Initial setup Automation Custom configuration

Operations Insights Visibility Analytics Troubleshooting Compliance

Nexus Dashboard Essentials Advantage Premier

Insights New All Features

No Nexus without Nexus Dashboard See more details

1 physical-node support (ACI only)

Nexus Dashboard Cluster

Nexus Dashboard Cluster

Nexus Dashboard Cluster

Node 1 Node 2 Node 3

Start Small | Grow as needed | Manage Centrally

Onboard sites with standalone NX-OS switches

Visibility Analytics Troubleshooting Compliance

Centralize management | All fabric types | Supported for Insights

Sources of Notify and

Reduce Time to Problem Awareness, Action and Resolution

Provides AI and Time Series Data for

Data Lake Data is stored and can be

Data and telemetry is collected from

NDFC Switches Servers L4-L7 Services

Nexus Dashboard Insights

ACI NX-OS NDFC

ACI NDFC NX-OS

Data retention DNS integration

Visibility Analytics Troubleshooting Compliance

Leverage the Simplify

New look now available!

Easily onboard NX-OS switches1 and ACI fabrics

Online sites continuously stream to Nexus Dashboard

Analytics Proactively detect and resolve issues through Anomaly

Learn about Best-Practices, Field Notifications and

Make a difference by knowing your network’s Co2

Flow Telemetry can identify impacted traffic flows with

Detect potential issues that may impact uptime

Initial effort focused on interface and endpoint anomalies

Critical (red) Major (orange) Warning Healthy

Hardware Capacity Compliance Connectivity Configuration Active Bugs Integrations