Cisco Data Center NEtwork Manager or Solarwinds
hi everyone,
I'm seeking for opinion on which tools to use to provide deeper monitoring solutions for our Data center. We use Nexus, UCS and Catalyst switches with NetApp SAN. I'm currently reviewing Solarwinds. During my study for CCIE Data Center, Cisco DCNM came up a lot. Has anyone use it?
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DCNM is just one part of Cisco Prime. You’ll likely need other parts too in order to do end-to-end network management. What I would do personally is talk to Solarwinds sales and tell them you’re considering Cisco Prime or Solarwinds, and they’ll give you the exact rundown of their offering vs. Cisco. At least then you’ll know how the different modules compete on a 1:1 basis.
For example Solarwinds has a plugin to manage the NetApp SAN: http://www.solarwinds.com/solutions/netapp-storage-performance.aspx I don’t know if Cisco Prime can do this, but it looks like not.
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of hphan082
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 1:41 PM
To: Brian McGahan
Subject: [CCIE DC] Cisco Data Center NEtwork Manager or Solarwinds
hi everyone,
I'm seeking for opinion on which tools to use to provide deeper monitoring solutions for our Data center. We use Nexus, UCS and Catalyst switches with NetApp SAN. I'm currently reviewing Solarwinds. During my study for CCIE Data Center, Cisco DCNM came up a lot. Has anyone use it?
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thank you Brian for your reply. Since 5548 doesn't do netflow, I'm having a concern on how much info Solarwinds can pull. I am in the process of setting up trial run on Solarwinds right now. And I'm planning to check our Cisco Prime suite during Cisco Live too.
It would be best if Solarwinds can provide everything that we need.
DCNM polls N5K via SNMP I mean, not via netflow. You really only need netflow on your L3 edge.
It uses SNMP. What exactly do you need netflow for? Are the 5Ks your layer 3 edge?
Brian McGahan, 4 x CCIE #8593 (R&S/SP/SC/DC), CCDE #2013::13
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of hphan082
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 3:32 PM
To: Brian McGahan
Subject: Re: [CCIE DC] RE: Cisco Data Center NEtwork Manager or Solarwinds
thank you Brian for your reply. Since 5548 doesn't do netflow, I'm having a concern on how much info Solarwinds can pull. I am in the process of setting up trial run on Solarwinds right now. And I'm planning to check our Cisco Prime suite during Cisco Live too.
It would be best if Solarwinds can provide everything that we need.
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Thank you Brian, I didn't know netflow is mainly used for L3, now that make more sense why 5548 doesn't support it.
I was under the assumption that netflow provide more detail info then snmp.
Brian McGahan, 4 x CCIE #8593 (R&S/SP/SC/DC), CCDE #2013::13
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On Apr 6, 2014, at 7:26 PM, "hphan082" <[email protected]> wrote:
thank you Brian! That was a good article to understand Netflow in IOS and NX-OS, plus now I also know about Cisco DocWiki.