ACI Cisco Data Center Analytics Network Insights Leverage

ACI Cisco Data Center Analytics Network Insights Leverage Knowledge Base of Digitized Known Issues ACI/NX-OS Fady Khella, Product Manager Engineering – Data Center Business Aniket Lele, Product Manager Engineering – Data Center Business Gerard Sheehan, Product Manager Engineering – Data Center Business Last Updated: September 9, 2019

Agenda • Customer Challenges: Why Network Insights • Business Benefits: • What is the Solution • What are Benefits and Use-cases • • Solution Dependencies Hosting, Licensing, and Pricing Roadmaps Additional Resources © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Biggest Consumer of IT Time: 43% Troubleshooting 4 x Network operators spend more time collecting data than analyzing while troubleshooting Replication challenge Troubleshooting an issue can be impossible if IT can’t replicate the issue or see the issue as is it happening real time Slow resolution Downtime is expense; unplanned downtime cost Fortune 1000 $1. 25 -2. 5 B annually © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential . 1 Mc. Kinsey Study of Network Operations for Cisco – 2016

Customer challenges Uptime Evidence Capacity Planning PSIRTS Root Cause Remediation © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Solution Landscape Fragmented Reactive • Too many tools addressing silo-ed visibility use cases • Inconsistent API architecture • Some are old, and some are expensive • Different protocols/mechanisms © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential • Specialized knowledge required • Difficult to root-cause issue, and often time too late to react to it Limited Insights • Low data fidelity that is not actionable • Lack of data correlation, don’t get the full picture • No dataplane visibility

Network Insights Applications DCNM APIC App Hosting Framework App Store Data collection and ingestion Visibility Learn from your network and recognize anomalies © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential App Hosting Framework App Store Data correlation and analysis Insights See problems before your end users do Platform Apps Data visualization and action Proactive Troubleshooting Find root cause faster with granular details

Network Insights - Enables Proactive Action Sources of Telemetry Data Ingest and Process Derive Insights Suggest Action Config File Syslog Tech-Support RIB Anomaly Flows Predictive failure Root cause Complex correlation FIB Accounting Logs Debug Logs CLI Metadata extraction Streaming Telemetry Environmentals Event History Topology Cores Correlate against Database Consistency Checkers Mac Table Increase Availability, Performance, and Simplify Operations © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Leverage Knowledge Base of Digitized Known Issues | ACI | NX-OS

Network Insights – Resources Pro-Active Monitoring, Troubleshooting & Capacity Planning © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Empower Your Team with Proactive Monitoring Impact Analysis Detect Notify Detect Automated with Anomaly detection Incident lifecycle Network Operations Incident lifecycle Adjust Network Operations NIR Adjust Network Insights: Resources Anomaly detection © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential | Pro-active alerts | Predictive failure

Shorten Time to Remediation for Troubleshooting Locate Identify Locate Root cause Identify Problem lifecycle Network Operations Automated with Artificial Intelligence Network Operations Problem lifecycle Remediate NIR Remediate Network Insights: Resources Packet drops | Latency | Reachability | Routing | Micro Bursts © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Increase Speed and Agility for Capacity Planning Trends Readings Forecast Readings Automated with statistical models Capacity planning Network Operations Capacity planning Adjust Network Operations NIR Adjust Network Insights: Resources Bandwidth | © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Ports | TCAM | Scale limits

Network Insights Advisor Pro-Active Analysis and Advice to Reduce Downtime and Optimize your Fabrics © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Protect Your Infra with Compliance Impact Analysis Audit Notify Audit Network Operations Automated with NIA Compliance Remediate Network Operations NIA Remediate Network Insights: Advisor PSIRTS | Hardening Anomalies © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential | Field notices

Optimize Your Infra with Pro-active support Report Detect Interact Detect Automated with NIA Support Network Operations Support Remediate Network Operations NIA Remediate Network Insights: Advisor TAC SRs | © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Upgrade impact | Defect scans

Network Insights Advisor Targeted Use Cases Proactive supportability insights Dashboard ”Give me a summary of issues” Advisories, Notifications, PSIRTs • Provide Timely updates about your system • Track Bugs and PSIRTs Anomalies • Compliance, Consistency, unplanned events (Fabric) © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Fabric wide analysis !

Network Insights Advisor – Reduce Downtime Before Network Insights Advisor After Network Insights Advisor Time to resolve issue in Hours Notice/Anomaly Detection 4 360 Case Accepted, Outputs Attached 2 840 Hrs 240 Tech Support Analysis 3 (~35 days) 120 Back and Forth Communication 120 Remediation, Close case <1 Day 1 Downtime/Outages to the Network cost Millions Flag Anomalies | © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Prevent outages | OPEX, CAPEX savings

Network Insights Advisor -- Customer Benefits s v Ad rie o is s ce Noti Network Insights Advisor Anomalies Compl iance Di ag no sti c Software/Hardware Recommendations Workarounds EOL/EOS Field Notices SMUs Known Bugs/PSIRTs Unknown runtime Config anomalies Version Scale Limits/Hardening Check Configuration S W State Consistency Checker Topology Checker Avoid multiple TAC calls Keep Network up to date Adhere to Cisco policies Recommendations Remove Complexity Avoid Outages Faster Deployment times Significant CAPEX And OPEX Savings Avoid config compliance issues Avoid downtimes © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 17

Solution Dependencies © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Network Insights Resources: Software and Hardware Support Matrix (ACI) Nexus 9000 platform NIR App function Cisco Nexus® 9300/9700 EX series Cisco Nexus 9300/9700 FX series Cisco Nexus 9300 FX 2 series Resource Utilization Yes Yes Environmental Yes Yes Event Analytics Yes Yes Statistics Yes Yes Flow Analytics Not Supported* Requires SE** Minimum software version ACI – APIC release 4. 0(3 d) ACI – Nexus 9000 series release 14. 0(3 d) *Support targeted CY 19 **Requires Services Engine cluster – Target FCS Q 3 CY 19 © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Release notes - https: //www. cisco. com/c/en/us/support/data-center-analytics/network-insights-data-center/products-release-notes-list. html

Network Insights Resources: Software and Hardware Support Matrix (DCNM) Nexus 9000 platform NIR App function Cisco Nexus® 9300/9500 series Cisco Nexus® 9300/9700 EX series Cisco Nexus 9300/9700 FX series Cisco Nexus 9300 FX 2 series Resource Utilization Yes Yes Environmental Yes Yes Statistics Yes Yes Flow Analytics Not Supported Q 4 CY 19 Minimum software version DCNM – release 11. 2(1) NXOS – Nexus 9000 series release 7. 0(3)I 7(6) © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Release notes - https: //www. cisco. com/c/en/us/support/data-center-analytics/network-insights-data-center/products-release-notes-list. html

Network Insights Resources: Scale Capacity Fabrics NIR supports multiple fabrics on DCNM and one on ACI. Support for multiple fabrics on ACI is part of roadmap. # of Leafs 250 Leafs currently supported with bump up in future releases # of Flows 10, 000 Targeted Flow Monitoring © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Network Insights Advisory: Scale Capacity Fabrics NIA supports single fabric on ACI NIA support 16 fabrics on DCNM # of Nodes 250 Nodes (Spines and/or Leafs) currently supported in v 1. 0. 1 Future 1. 0. 2 on SN 120 Nodes on APIC © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Network Insights Advisor: Software and Hardware Support Matrix NIA App function Cisco Nexus® 9300 series Cisco Nexus 9500 series Cisco Nexus 9700 series Cisco Nexus 3000 series DCNM Yes* Not applicable Yes** ACI Target Q 3 CY 19 Not applicable Minimum software version DCNM – release 11. 2(1) *Not supported on Nexus 9500 R-Series line cards **Not supported on Nexus 3600 R-Series Release notes - https: //www. cisco. com/c/en/us/support/data-center-analytics/network-insights-data-center/products-release-notes-list. html © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Hosting, Licensing, and Pricing © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Cisco Application Services Engine ACI 4. 2 New Application Hosting Platform SE SE SE Cisco Application Services Engine Network Insights Network Assurance Engine 2. 1 GHz 8 core CPU x 2 192 GB memory 3 rd Party Apps (Splunk, F 5 etc) 2. 4 TB x 2 HDD 16 GB USB Flash drive Scale-out architecture © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential | Cluster For Redundancy | App hosting

Network Insights: Licensing Premier Subscription Tier to Include NIR and NIA Licensing A La Carte Subscription-based Licenses. © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Network Insights: Licensing Premier tier NIR/NIA license is part of Premier edition license and separate license is not required. Advantage tier NIR/NIA Add-on license is supported for Advantage edition and needs to be purchased separately. Essentials tier NIR/NIA Add-on license is supported for Essentials edition and needs to be purchased separately. License model NIR/NIA is subscription only license and supports per leaf licensing model for ACI and per node licensing model for DCNM © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. https: //www. cisco. com/c/en/us/td/docs/data-center-analytics/network-insights/1 -x/licensing-guide/NIR-NIA-Licensing-Guide-r 0. html Cisco Confidential Licensing and ordering guide:

Network Insights Advisor A La Carte (Add-on) licensing PIDs NIA Fixed Modular 4 -Slot Modular 16 -Slot PID ACI Term DCNM NIA-FXD-3 Y Yes 3 Year NIA-FXD-5 Y Yes 5 Year NIA-M 4 -3 Y Not Applicable Yes 3 Year NIA-M 4 -5 Y Not Applicable Yes 5 Year NIA-M 8 -16 -3 Y Not Applicable Yes 3 Year NIA-M 8 -16 -5 Y Not Applicable Yes 5 Year © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Network Insights Resources A La Carte (Add-on) licensing PIDs NIA Fixed Modular 4 -Slot Modular 16 -Slot PID ACI Term DCNM NIR-FXD-3 Y Yes 3 Year NIR-FXD-5 Y Yes 5 Year NIR-M 4 -3 Y Not Applicable Yes 3 Year NIR-M 4 -5 Y Not Applicable Yes 5 Year NIR-M 8 -16 -3 Y Not Applicable Yes 3 Year NIR-M 8 -16 -5 Y Not Applicable Yes 5 Year © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Roadmap © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Legal DISCLAIMER Any information provided in this document regarding future functionalities is for informational purposes only and is subject to change including ceasing any further development of such functionality. Many of these future functionalities remain in varying stages of development and will be offered on a when-and-if available basis, and Cisco makes no commitment as to the final delivery of any of such future functionalities. Cisco will have no liability for Cisco’s failure to deliver any or all future functionalities and any such failure would not in any way imply the right to return any previously purchased Cisco products. © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

Network Insights Resources Roadmap NIR 2. 0 Release NIR 2. 1 Release NIR 2. 2 Release NIR Future releases Flow monitoring EX HW platform support Multi-fabric support Additional Protocol monitoring Protocol stats & Anomaly detection ACI 3. 2. x support Hop-by-hop flow latency NLP Data Plane stats & Anomaly detection End-to-end, per Flow Latency Multicast Event correlation Nexus 3000 Integration Environmentals Packet drop diagnosis Nexus 7000 integration Kafka notification Predictive failure Arista support (DCNM) Packet injection & on demand capture Buffer analytics Time Series data BGP event correlation IOS XR integration SD-WAN, c. APIC Q 2 CY 19 (Shipping) Committed Q 1 CY 20 Futures © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Refer to Disclaimer

Network Insights Advisor Roadmap (page 1/2) NIA 1. 0. 2 Release NIA 2. 0 Release Multi-fabric support (DCNM) Multi-pod support Upgrade Impact ACI + ACI support NIA Lite (First Release) Notices, PSIRT notifications Inbox State Validation (Flow for DCNM) Hardening Anomalies (DCNM) Tech Support to Cloud Bug Scan/Fingerprint Analysis Advanced Advisories CX Integration TAC Assist Faststart Q 3 CY 19 (Shipping) Q 4 CY 19 (Planning) © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Legend: NIA Lite features Refer to Disclaimer

Network Insights Advisor Roadmap (page 2/2) NIA 2. 1 Release NIA Future Release Multi-fabric support (ACI) Cisco Certified Solutions Signatures Fabric wide Advisor Service Now Integration Customized Notifications Streamed Logging Multi-site Support Smart Devices/Mobile Phone App NIR Integration Feature Guidelines & Limitations Inventory Locator Trigger Job Based on Syslog/Fault “TAC Fix” Delivery via Inbox Advanced Upgrade Impact SW License Analytics Offline Metadata TAP Delivery via Inbox Nexus 7 K/MDS Support Smart Licensing Integration DC Refresh Advisor (DCRA) Sane State Monitor Online Bug Scan/Decode Signature Kafka notification (NIA Stream) DC Refresh Estimator (DCRE) Q 1 CY 20 (Planning) Futures © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Legend: NIA Lite features Refer to Disclaimer

Network Insights useful links: Contact Product Management: nir-nia-pm@cisco. com Monitor DC group page for program updates: https: //nexus 9 kaci. cisco. com Internal collateral - https: //nexus 9 kaci. cisco. com/product-line/networkinsights CCO link – https: //cisco. com/go/dcni Download – https: //aciappcenter. cisco. com © 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential

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