Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module (NAM) has been integrated with Nexus 7k/7700 Series using Cisco? Remote Integrated Services Engine (RISE) technology providing a powerful story for data center integration. RISE with Prime NAM provides high performance monitoring and packet analysis on multiple virtual device contexts along with switch interface statistics for all modules.
Cisco RISE is being used by a large number of customers to tightly integrate the Cisco Nexus series switches with the Cisco Prime NAM to provide VDC awareness and SPAN traffic across multiple VDCs without burning slots on the switch. RISE overcomes the limitation of applying SPAN configuration only in the VDC to which the management cable is attached by intelligently managing the movement of NAM data ports and SPAN configuration to other VDCs as needed. The integration includes the following main features:
Figure 1. RISE Physical and logical topology
Deployment Modes
Cisco RISE supports attachment to the NAM appliance in the following modes:
Direct Attach mode with single NAM: The appliance has a management link that is directly attached to the Nexus switch. Up to 4 data links on the NAM can be attached to one or more VDCs on the Nexus switch to send SPAN traffic (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Direct Attach Mode with single NAM
Direct Attach modes with multiple NAMs: The appliance has a management link that is directly attached to the Nexus switch. Up to 4 data links on each NAM can be attached to one or more VDCs on the Nexus switch to send SPAN traffic (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Direct Attach mode with multiple NAMs
Indirect Attach modes with multiple NAMs: The appliance has a management link that is attached via an L2 network to the Nexus switch. Up to 4 data links on each NAM can be attached to one or more VDCs on the Nexus switch to send SPAN traffic (Figure 4).
Core Features
Cisco RISE with NAM provides the following key features that allow the solution to provide traffic and performance analysis across all the VDCs on the Nexus switch without changing the wiring connections.
Dynamic VDC-aware SPAN Configuration
Multi-VDC Interface Statistics
Main Benefits
Cisco RISE is supported in Cisco NX-OS Software Release 7.x and requires the Enhanced Layer 2 Package license. Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions.
References
http://cisco.com/go/rise
http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/rise
http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/rise-nam