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Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (Formerly DCNM) Valuable Features

Upul Abhayasena - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Technology at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

We recommended the Nexus dashboard not based on any particular feature but overall as a management tool. The Cisco sales team convinced the customer due to the number of data centers running in the customer environment and the customer's willingness to try the DCNM.

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OusaidAbaz - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Network Architect at Inmac

The Nexus switches integrate with Cisco's SD-WAN solutions and can be interfaced with various automation tools. They support integration with programming languages like Python and configuration management tools like Ansible and Terraform, allowing for automation and streamlined management.

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MD.SIHAB TALUKDAR - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The security elements and integration with other products are better, so we're using this. I think the bandwidth throughput is smoother and better than other products.

The automation capability is more than enough. It depends on how we consider and integrate the automation engine. We need to ensure the automation engine and then how to perform it. It depends on the policy making, API integration, and other integrations.

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Buyer's Guide
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (Formerly DCNM)
July 2025
Learn what your peers think about Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (Formerly DCNM). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2025.
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Olajide Olusegun - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Team Lead at Atlas Security

Cisco DCNM provides a unique capability of managing the admin VDCs of Nexus boxes. This is an extremely important feature that is not available with Cisco Super Prime or any other monitoring device. DCNM also supplies a clear graphical view of the connectivity across all VDCs. Integrating with DCMN is an incredible experience. The NDI integration provides an unparalleled level of insight into the data center, allowing for comprehensive analysis and visualization of the entire environment. The power of this integration has truly blown my mind!

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Henok Tsegaye - PeerSpot reviewer
BDM/Chief Information Officer at Afcor PLC

There is an imbalance in the uplink and downlink ports of the product purchased earlier.

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ChinthakaKannangara - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Millenium IT

The tool's most valuable feature is the consolidated dashboard, providing insights into parameters and overall usage of network features. It allows us to easily summarize insights through the dashboards. The solution offers automation capabilities, particularly in the context of connecting LAN sites with websites.

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Munmeet Dosanjh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at Virgin Media

The product makes the management of our environment simpler. It simplifies the management of our services that are deployed on the switches and routers. It is easy to manage.

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RajeshKumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Consultant at Velocis Systems

We now get more insight into the network's health data. This includes the compliance part and other points to a single pane from there. We can also upgrade and get the visibility for the running version. Without the compatibility of the infrastructure, we would not have been able to do this. It will manage what we don't see on the device and sync from a single cloud.

I don't have to rely on the on-site engineer who can do the configuration. I can have our team just plug the devices and perform remotely. I can also do the templates. 

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Charles David - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Operations Specialist at Trends and Technologies, Inc

It has a very nice dashboard so you can see what's currently happening in the network and the performance of the back story.

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Kyaw Zin Linn - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at Mitsuiwa-ace Engineering

The most valuable features of Cisco Data Center Network Manager are consistency and the core server. The teams have had a good experience.

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Ananda Deb - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Ledorbis Solutions

The most valuable feature is that it is vendor-independent. We have an open-solution approach. However, the actual devices have to be from an OEM but the management part, if proposed on open platforms, the solution becomes independent of OEMs. 

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SI
Tech Specialist, Client Network DeliveryTech at AT&T

I like running the scripts. With the help of a Python script, we deployed within the configuration and built up the code.

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LuisLanca - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Logicalis

The HDA is part of the micro-segmentation of the network, and it can be integrated with security departments like the F5 Checkpoint Firewall Tool. You can integrate all the networks into the software and file network data center. We are looking for the load balancing and application service of Cloudflare.

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MD.SIHAB TALUKDAR - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Fabric suite automation is a great feature.

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reviewer1122879 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager Network at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

There are many valuable features in this solution: The automation of the ILS, the automation of the small changes, the lands updates, scheduling, integration - basically, the pushing of features that we used to do manually. It's a good product.

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reviewer1313835 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager with 201-500 employees

The most valuable feature is the connectivity monitoring.

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Ahmed Nagm - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Solution Consultant at PCS

The monitoring system in this product is valuable. It provides a clear indication of what's going on in the network and the server processing, power, etc. User interface is also very good, very informative. 

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HF
Solution Consultant at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

For our purposes, excellent stability is the most valuable feature because we provide services for clients who need a dependable solution.  

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AS
CSD Manager at BTC

I like that is easy to work on and straightforward.

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reviewer1190517 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 11-50 employees

The feature I find most valuable is the stability of the solution.

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AG
Systems Consultant Director at Dasit

The monitoring capability is the best in Cisco Data Center Network Manager. It helps me improve network management tasks and optimize processes.              

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Buyer's Guide
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (Formerly DCNM)
July 2025
Learn what your peers think about Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (Formerly DCNM). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2025.
861,803 professionals have used our research since 2012.