Why Choose Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches?

How to build a next-generation automated data center with the Nexus 9000 series? All experts will introduce you to the Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches, which are ideal for traditional or fully automated data center deployments. Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches offer an exceptional portfolio of integrated, converged, and hyper-converged platform and network solutions to help customers meet these challenges. The next-generation Cisco Nexus 9000 series with Cisco Cloud Scale Technology provides multi-year advantage and sustained differentiation between Cisco and single-vendor proprietary point-product network providers and public cloud providers.

A key component of the Cisco ASAP (Analyze, Simplify, Automate, and Protect) data center, the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series provides a foundation that analyzes, simplifies, automates, and protects your entire modern data center like no other solution available.

Cloud-scale technology

As challenges become more diverse, Cisco offers customers a variety of custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and commercial silicon options in fixed and modular form factors with flexible 1, 10 Ethernet port configurations. , 25, 40, 50, and 100 Gigabit. This flexibility offers investment protection and helps customers optimize their price-performance objectives in their network solutions for specific use cases and environments.

However, to deal with rapidly changing and increasingly complex hybrid data centers, customers should Choose a Cisco Cloud Scale ASIC running the Cisco Nexus 9000 series. This ASIC gives customers an advantage of at least two years in the features they get compared to commercially available silicon products, providing greater scalability, deeper analytics and visibility, and higher performance. Cloud-scale ASICs offer significantly greater scale and more features at an optimized price with capabilities including segment routing, group-based security policies, network service headers, and extensible virtual LAN (VXLAN) overlay with all the functions.

Smart buffers:

Cisco Cloud Scale Smart Buffers offer innovations to intelligently manage buffers and queue scheduling by identifying large and little flows and handling them differently.

Dynamic Packet Prioritization (DPP): DPP prioritizes small flows over large flows, helping to make sure that tiny flows aren’t suffering from excessive queues to accommodate large flows.

Fair Fall Approach (AFD): AFD introduces awareness of flow size and fairness into the early fall congestion prevention mechanism.

Segment-based routing:

The Cisco Nexus 9000 Series brings the facility of label switching to data center routing.

Simplified control plane:

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) control plane is employed for VXLAN.

Simplified VXLAN operation:

The Cisco Nexus 9000 Series supports VXLAN Operations, Administration, and Management (OAM) for easy troubleshooting and diagnosis.

In-service software update (ISSU):

The Cisco Nexus 9000 Series provides a lightweight model for faster updates, reducing control plane downtime to but 3 seconds and eliminating data plane downtime.

Fibre Channel supports Ethernet (FCoE):

FCoE reduces operating expenses (OpEx) and capital expenses (CapEx) by converging LAN and SAN environments. Therefore, Cisco offers optimal cloud services and cloud economics through its Cloud Scale technology.

Open and extensible programmability

The open Cisco NXOS software is the industry’s most scalable, open, and programmable network operating system, enabling customers to programmatically initialize and configure the Cisco Nexus 9000 series. It switches through comprehensive and well-documented APIs provided by Cisco and third-party vendors. Customers can provision their switches using familiar tool integrations (such as Puppet, Chef, and Ansible) and have access to a strong API and community support.

This innovation is important for application developers, DevOps professionals, and other users preferring self-service infrastructure models to finish their projects, like application onboarding, more quickly and efficiently. With NXOS, IT staff can meet these needs by configuring the network faster, reducing recovery time after failure, and gaining flexibility in an environment familiar to server administrators.

Fully automated and safe

IT organizations are expected to work at the speed of business and deliver services with the agility of the general public cloud. In this environment, capabilities like consistently quick setup aren’t just desirable, they’re essential. But the speed must be correct. Many security issues are the result of user errors or misconfigurations that put your business at risk.

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) is the industry’s number one software-defined networking (SDN) solution. SDN offering the most comprehensive automation capabilities. Improve business agility, reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), automate IT tasks, and accelerate application deployment.

Real-time analysis and deep telemetry

The Cisco Nexus 9000 Series with Cloud Scale ASIC comes configured with support for Cisco Tetration Analytics. Cisco Nexus Data Broker solutions, providing customers with real-time visibility into application performance also as enhanced security.IT professionals can better understand existing systems and prepare for the future.

Cisco Tetration Review:

Leveraging unsupervised machine learning and behavior analytics, Tetration offers consistent, automated policy enforcement, enabling application segmentation across full. It also virtualized on-premises servers, private and public clouds. Through a single dashboard, the policy is automated and applied based on context and roles. By using software and hardware sensors, Tetration can gain insight into application dependencies and interactions. It also improves reliability and simplify zero-trust operations.

• Granular segmentation is based on billions of workload flows, processes, and characteristics
• Forensic search and enforcement
• Automated creation of whitelist policies

Cisco Nexus Data Broker is a simple, scalable, and cost-effective solution for monitoring high-volume, business-critical traffic. It will make an ever-changing data center and cloud environment. Supports port capacities from 1 to 100 Gbps within Test Network Access Point (TAP). Cisco Switched has a Port Analyzer (SPAN) infrastructure. Additionally, it provides line speed traffic filtering, replication, and forwarding capabilities, enabling proactive online tools. It will create a robust, layered security environment even before threats enter or leave the data center.

Advanced centralized management

The Cisco Nexus 9000 series offers tools like Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM).  So, the DCNMenables customers to efficiently deploy switches and optimize the material through automatable capabilities. Automatically provision Cisco Nexus switches and configure virtual machine management (VMM) tools in the switch fabric for the network administrator.

Cisco Nexus 9000 series also unifies LAN and SAN management software on a single platform. It is allowing network and storage teams to manage their respective domains. It has also a single system while keeping track of each other’s activities. The Cisco Nexus 9000 Series also uses the Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager. It will make simplify the process of creating and managing a Cisco Nexus fabric with a point-and-click web interface.