Cisco Nexus Dashboard

Score8.2 out of 10

94 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cisco Nexus Dashboard?

Cisco Nexus Dashboard simplifies data-center networks with automation and analytics. The data-center network helps organizations to meet business demands, and provision reliable data-center networking services as fast as possible, when and where organizations need it.

As network infrastructure management is becoming more complex, diverse, and distributed, with multiple configuration points, monitoring tools, and vast amounts of data being generated every second. Cisco Nexus Dashboard is offered as a comprehensive management platform that simplifies data center network operations and automation.

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Edmundo Pacheco

network engineer in Engineering at fanduel.com (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Monitor and manage our media fabric

Pros

Quickly and seamlessly manages the environment
Ease of use
Depth of visibility

Cons

Installation is a little finicky and required we reset to factory
Servers to manage 6 switches

Return on Investment

This is still pretty new to our environment but we are finding more ways to utilize the environment

Hector Carrillo

System Administrator in Information Technology at El Paso 911 District (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization we use it to provide services to local goverment for the 911. It helps monitor our network and be able to have a quicker responds when we have any issues.

Pros

flexability
unified
centralized control
cloud base

Alternatives Considered

Cisco UCS Manager

Other Software Used

Azure NetApp Files, Omnissa Horizon

Romulo Oliveira Bernardini

Eng in Engineering at SAFRA S.A. (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Before we had no visibility. Now with Nexus Dashbord we can find errors and potential problems.

Pros

before we had no visibility
troubleshooting
flows

Cons

centralized troubleshooting console
tickets
security issues

Return on Investment

we had a size problem, we have many more flows than the tool supports
centralized console

Jeff Cameron

CTO in Information Technology at CCHealth (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's definitely getting better, we have been using it since MSO, and it continues to improve.

Pros

Backup/restore
Config drift
Orchestration

Cons

If it could validate that changes aren't going to break its own connectivity, that would be a major improvement

Joel Villasenor View profile

Network Engineer in Information Technology at Contra Costa Health (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Single plane of glass for DC infrastructure that streamlines total time to troubleshoot. Great product insight! Easy to read metrics and updates are smooth!

Pros

Clear metric dashboard
Updates are simple and convenient
Single plane of glass

Cons

Possible 3rd party API integration for true single plan of glass

Return on Investment

Cisco Nexus Dashboard already integrates with the product so no need for additional software support to manage.

Other Software Used

Grafana, Splunk Enterprise, Selector Analytics

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