HPE StoreFabric Data Center Network Manager (DCNM): технические характеристики и документация

HPE StoreFabric Data Center Network Manager (DCNM)

HPE StoreFabric Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) is designed to help you efficiently implement, visualize, and manage C-series Fabrics. It includes a comprehensive feature set, along with a customizable dashboard that provides enhanced visibility and automated fabric provisioning of dynamic data centers. DCNM is the recommended management system for C-series. It helps customers provision, monitor, and troubleshoot data center network infrastructure. It provides visibility and control of the unified data center enabling service providers and IT departments to optimize for the quality of service (QoS) required to meet service-level agreements (SLAs) for internal and external customers.

DCNM increases overall data center infrastructure uptime and reliability, hence improving business continuity. Focused on supporting efficient operations and management of virtual machine-aware (VM-aware) fabrics, DCNM provides a robust framework and comprehensive feature set that meets the routing, switching, and storage administration needs of present and future virtualized data centers. DCNM streamlines the provisioning the unified fabric and proactively monitors the SAN and LAN components. Offering an exceptional level of visibility and control through a single management console, or "single pane of glass," for C-series product families.

Feature List

• Event Management

• Provides real-time network health summary with detailed view of individual network components, enabling operations staff to respond quickly to events based on their severity
• Ability to Acknowledge working on the alert and, when resolved, delete it
  o Forward syslog alerts based on monitored facility

• Web Templates

• Pre-built Templates for provisioning LAN and SAN components
• Pre-built Template deployment scheduler and rollback mechanism
• Customizable Templates with conditional statements
• Create new templates using template editor
• Import configuration script and turn it into Template

• Dashboards

• Provides operational monitoring views of SAN, LAN and Server environments
• Domain driven dashboards for host, storage and switch
• Context driven searches launch within domain dashboards

• Performance and Capacity

• Provides detailed visibility into real-time and historical performance statistics in the data center
• Provides insight into port and bandwidth utilization, error count, traffic statistics, etc.
• Includes scheduled custom reports that can be offloaded for post processing

• Capacity Manager

• Track port utilization by port tier and predict when an individual tier pool will be consumed
• Chart view of port consumption based on custom groupings

• VMpath Analysis for LAN and SAN

• Provides view of virtual machine path through physical network to storage array and to the data store
• Provides capability to view performance for every switch hop all the way to the individual VMware ESX server and virtual machine

• Topology Views

• Displays real-time operationally focused topology of the data center infrastructure
• Offers Layer 2 overlay topology maps to streamline the troubleshooting process and reduce the mean time to repair; roll the cursor over the topology to view detailed information about paths and switch attributes

• Reports

• Let you build custom reports from predefined templates
• Provides easy-to-schedule reports that can be exported for post processing or sent by email

• Automated Discovery

• Using automated network discovery, provides up-to-date physical and logical inventory information
• Tracks inventory and performance information in real time; information can be used as a source of truth for asset tracking or as a data source for a configuration management database (CMDB)

• Configuration and Change Management

· Provides pre-deployment validation of configuration changes, reducing opportunities for human error

• Using historical configuration archive coupled with configuration comparison, enables you to identify the last-known good state if configuration problems occur
• Provides capability to back up configuration files from all switches
• Image Management
  • Enables easy-to-perform, non-disruptive (In-Service Software Upgrade [ISSU]) mass deployment of Cisco NX-OS Software images, which can be scheduled or run on demand

Ordering Information

HPE StoreFabric Data Center Network Manager

HPE StoreFabric SN6000C Data Center Network Manager E-LTU

TC364AAE

HPE StoreFabric SN6500C Data Center Network Manager E-LTU

TC365AAE

HPE StoreFabric SN8000C Data Center Network Manager E-LTU

TC368AAE

HPE StoreFabric SN8500C Data Center Network Manager E-LTU

TC470AAE

Applicable Switch Model

Description

HPE P/N

MDS9124, MDS9134, MDS9148,

MDS 9148e,

MDS9148S

HPE StoreFabric SN6000C Data Center Network Manager E-LTU

• Please note that this license can be used for the HPE MDS 8/12c and 8/24c BladeSystem switches (MDS 9148e)

TC364AAE

MDS9222i , MDS9250i

HPE StoreFabric SN6500C Data Center Network Manager E-LTU

TC365AAE

MDS9506, MDS9509, MDS9513

HPE StoreFabric SN8000C Data Center Network Manager E-LTU

TC368AAE

MDS9706, MDS9710

HPE StoreFabric SN8500C Data Center Network Manager E-LTU

TC470AAE

Customer Benefits

• Offers intuitive, large-scale fabric visualization along with domain views
• Provides cable plan validation and detection
• Features a centralized image and configuration repository
• Helps you resolve problems faster.

Service and Support

Software Technical Support and Update Service

HPE StoreFabric Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) software products include one year of 9x5 HPE Software Technical Support and Update Service. This service is available 9 hours per day between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. local time, Monday through Friday excluding HPE holidays. The service provides access to HPE technical resources for assistance in resolving software operations issues, and, also provides access to software updates and reference manuals in electronic form.

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HPE Foundation Care Support Service

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HPE Datacenter Care service

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Product is customer installable

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Date

Version History

Action

Description of Change

06-Nov-2017

From Version 5 to 6

Added

Added new electronic licenses.

23-Oct-2017

From Version 4 to 5

Changed

Care Pack naming and Service and Support- Parts and Materials updated.

14-Oct-2016

From version 3 to 4

Changed

Rebranding edition.

10-Jul-2015

From Version 2 to 3

Changed

Included MDS9250i and MDS9706 switches, Update SKUs descriptions.

09-May-2014

From Version 1 to 2

 Changed

Recommended HPE Pointnext operational services was revised.