APJC_NDI_Top_Use_Cases_Webinar_Oct2023

Nexus Dashboard Insights
Top Use Cases and Demos

Jayesh Singh, Camillo Rossi – Technical Marketing Engineer, DCN BU
October 2023
• 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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• Demo (cont.)
Agenda – Day 2 • Experience the New ND 3.0 and

NDI 6.3 - Cisco dCloud
• Conclusion
The golden age of
app development
network operations
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Current operations need to run 24x7
50%
1 in 5
Organizations
80%
30%
of organizations have Nearly 50% of data disruptions Experienced outages in the last 3
experienced a type of outage cause lost productivity and 30% years that negatively affected
in the last 3 years result in direct revenue loss their reputation, revenue, and
Human error 40%, Networking #1 Reported Cause compliance adherence
Sources: The Real Costs of Planned and Unplanned Downtime IDC (January 2021)
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Common Real World Ops Questions
Assurance Troubleshooting
Are my fabrics configured following Where is the problem and
best practices? what’s the blast radius?
How much are my fabrics How do I reduce MTTR?
resources utilized? How do I prove network is
What’s the impact of the last healthy?
change I have applied
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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Customer Challenges
Today’s tools do not address modern network needs
Fragmented Reactive Limited Insights

• Too many tools addressing • ‘After-the-fact’ when • Not generally looking at
only simple functions damage is already done things at a holistic level
• Some are old, and some • Specialized knowledge • Lack of data correlation,
are expensive often required don’t get the full picture
• Different protocols, • Difficult to root-cause issue, • No data plane visibility
mechanisms, data types and often too late to react
to it
1. Provision
Cable/rack, initial configuration
and network/security changes -
time
Configure secure connectivity services
API, CLI or UI driven
2. Operate
The network-admin
(over-simplified role)
Keep the network/business running +
time
Visualize, troubleshoot, correlate, upgrade,
MTTI, fix/remediate, best practices
1. Provision Network connectivity
Initial setup
Leverage built-in
automation (optional)
Manual configuration
2. Operate Network connectivity
Visibility
Analytics
Troubleshooting
Compliance
Today’s networks are complex and distributed
We must make it easier for our customers
Embedded Controllers
CLI and Scripts Controllers Connectivity Policy SAN
Virtual and Controllers SAN Campus, L4-L7 Multi- Orchestrators Workflows L4-L7 CLI and Campus,
APIs Zoning Virtual and
K8s Controller Cloud, WAN Services Vendor Services API Cloud WAN K8s networks
networks Tools
Leverage built-in
Initial setup Manual configuration
automation (optional) Multi-Vendor
Tools
Too many control points to provision and operate connectivity services!
Visibility Analytics Troubleshooting Compliance
Monitoring Controllers SPAN Network ITSM CLI and Multi-Vendor

Multi-Vendor Network Reporting Multi-Vendor Governance Manual Audits
Tools Sessions Analytics API Tools
Tools Analytics Tools Tools Tools
Campus,
Cloud, WAN
Netflow & Open Packet Conformance
CLI and Campus, SAN Campus, Troubleshooting Release
Telemetry Tracers Tools
API
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Analytics
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Solution?
Powering automation
Cisco Nexus
Unified agile platform
Dashboard
Cisco
Nexus
Insights Fabric Discovery
Orchestrator Fabric Controller
Dashboard
Simple to automate, Data Broker
Consume all services in one place
SAN Controller
simple to consume
Private cloud Public cloud Third-party Connectors
Nexus Dashboard
The simplest way to provision, manage and operate Data Center and Cloud Networks
Leverage your existing switch licenses
Hosted as on-prem or cloud1 appliance
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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
Available now!
Cisco Nexus Dashboard - Platform

Highlights
5
Optimized footprint
Multi-Cluster support
All services in one place
Single upgrade process
Optimization + new look and feel

startingND
in3.0
Q3CY23
We have embarked on a Journey
Towards simplification and unification
2017 2019 2022 Today

New features
Network
Assurance Engine
New UI/UX
Network
Insights Advisor Nexus
Dashboard
Nexus
Insights
Insights
NDI 6.3
Network
Insights Resources
ND 3.0
Available now!

Footprint reduction and scale increase
Nexus Dashboard Cluster Nexus Dashboard Cluster

3 virtual nodes* 3 physical nodes
Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 Node 1 Node 2 Node 3
BEFORE NOW (3.0) BEFORE NOW (3.0)
6 VMs required 3 VMs required* 100 ACI Switches 300 ACI Switches
10 Switches 50 Switches
(ACI/NDFC) (ACI/NDFC)
* Each OVA App node require 16 vCPUs, 64GB RAM, 1.5TB thin-provisioned SSD, requires fresh install
BEFORE NOW (3.0)

Node 1 Node 2 Node 3
Nexus Dashboard Cluster 500 ACI Switches 750 ACI Switches
6 physical nodes
Node 4 Node 5 Node 6 350 NDFC Switches 500 NDFC Switches
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Licensing
Nexus Switching Tiered Licensing
Cisco full vs. base feature set
Included Nexus Dashboard Features and Services
Essentials Advantage Premier
Nexus Dashboard
Controller
ACI | NX-OS | SAN Nexus Dashboard
Orchestrator
1
Snapshot sites display anomalies in both Full and Base models, however,
they do not support topology, site traffic, sustainability and conformance
Nexus Switching Tiered Licensing
Cisco full vs. base feature set
Included Nexus Dashboard Features and Services
Essentials Advantage Premier
Nexus Dashboard
Controller
ACI | NX-OS | SAN Nexus Dashboard
Orchestrator
Nexus Dashboard
Insights
1
Snapshot sites display anomalies in both Full and Base models, however,
they do not support topology, site traffic, sustainability and conformance
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
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, 2023
Nexus Dashboard
Insights
Snapshot File
snapshot1.tar.gz
Date from Sept 4-10, 2023
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
ND 3.0
Available now!

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
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
Identify Traffic Flows/Paths and Potential Impact

5-tuple flow visibility across the datacenter fabric
Troubleshooting Flow Telemetry Latency, drops and flow anomalies are visible in real time
Reduce MTTR and MTTI and get to root cause quicker
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)
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
• NDI Use Cases Demo
Agenda – Day 2 • Experience the New ND 3.0 and

NDI 6.3 - Cisco dCloud
• Conclusion
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Next steps
Experience Nexus Dashboard Insights 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 3.0
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights 6.3
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/
nd-overview/nexus-dashboard-overview.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-deployment-guide-
301.html
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Troubleshooting, Release 3.0.x

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/dcn/nd/3x/
nd-troubleshooting/nexus-dashboard-troubleshooting.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 ND 3.0 and

Proactive advisories Single-pane-of-glass

Fragmented Reactive Limited Insights

Too many control points to provision and operate connectivity services!

Visibility Analytics Troubleshooting Compliance

Monitoring Controllers SPAN Network ITSM CLI and Multi-Vendor

Orchestrator Fabric Controller

Leverage your existing switch licenses

Hosted as on-prem or cloud1 appliance

Provisioning Controller Orchestrator

Initial setup Automation Custom configuration

Operations Insights Visibility Analytics Troubleshooting Compliance

Cisco Nexus Dashboard - Platform

All services in one place

Single upgrade process

Optimization + new look and feel

2017 2019 2022 Today

Nexus Dashboard Insights

Nexus Dashboard Cluster Nexus Dashboard Cluster

Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 Node 1 Node 2 Node 3

BEFORE NOW (3.0) BEFORE NOW (3.0)

BEFORE NOW (3.0)

Essentials Advantage Premier

ACI | NX-OS | SAN Nexus Dashboard

Essentials Advantage Premier

ACI | NX-OS | SAN Nexus Dashboard

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

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

Nexus Dashboard Insights

Initial effort focused on interface and endpoint anomalies

Critical (red) Major (orange) Warning Healthy

Hardware Capacity Compliance Connectivity Configuration Active Bugs Integrations

Avoid wasting time finding release notes and reduce risk

Identify Traffic Flows/Paths and Potential Impact

Understand the carbon footprint of managed devices

Explore IPs, MACs and switches across your sites and

Analyze Connectivity between 2 endpoints and

With Delta Analysis, learn about changes in your

Need to go back in time?

Quickly search and find what you are looking for

Identify Traffic Flows/Paths and Potential Impact

Nexus Dashboard Insights

Flow telemetry NFS

5 Tuple flow data in

Ingress & Egress