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Cisco Prime DCNM Release Notes, Release 7.0.(2)
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New Features and Enhancements in Cisco DCNM Release 7.0 (1)
Cisco DNCM Release 7.0 includes the new features, enhancements, and hardware support that are
described in the following sections:
• OVA Form Factor Packaged with all DFA Components, page 6
• Enhanced Visualization and Topology, page 6
• POAP, page 6
• Auto-Configuration, page 7
• DCNM REST API, page 7
• Network Services, page 8
• Platform-Specific Features, page 8
• Supported Cisco Platforms and Software Versions, page 9
OVA Form Factor Packaged with all DFA Components
• DCNM 7.x release provides DCNM as an Open Virtual Applianc (OVA), that can be deployed on
VMware vSphere infrastructure. DCNM 7.x ships only in the OVA format. The vCenter and ESXi
must be version 5.1 or higher for a successful deployment.
• This Virtual Appliance has a pre-installed operating system (CentOS) with pre-installed DCNM
Cisco Data Center Network Manager components for Dynamic Fabric Architecture.
• After deployment of the OVA, you can access DCNM Web UI at the configured IP address with
credentials: admin/<user provided password>. To login to an ssh session of this deployment you can
use the credentials: root/ <user provided password>.
Enhanced Visualization and Topology
A new topology paradigm with color-coded icons and leaf or spine representation with links is designed
to give you a quick and useful view of health and functionality of the fabric and end hosts. You can view
the topology at Dashboard->Dynamic Fabric Automation.
Following are a few highlights of the new DFA topology:
• Inter Switch Link view and Edge Ports view of Fabric.
• Node and Link status clearly color-coded for easy problem-recognition and reconciliation in large
networks.
• Easy Search and Filter options based on:
–
Switch name
–
Real-time End Host Virtual/Physical Machine association (Tenant-awareness)
–
Org/Partition defined in LDAP.
POAP
Power On Auto Provisioning (POAP). This is a feature that allows a device to automatically bootup with
the desired configuration and images. You can access the configuration at config->Power On Auto
Provisioning (POAP).
To facilitate this feature, DCNM has useful GUI and packaged utilities for: