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Cisco Prime Infrastructure: Enabling Unified Access and BYOD in your Network

Chris McGuyer

Sr. Business Development Manager


Prime Infrastructure Session Objectives

• Update on Prime Infrastructure

‒ What is Cisco Prime? Why do I need it?

• Strategic roadmap direction for Prime Infrastructure

• Prime Infrastructure 2.0 Deep Dive

• Additional Resources

• Demonstration

Enables Unified Access – One Solution

Prime Infrastructure What is Cisco Prime & Why Do I Need It?


Cisco Prime for IT

Cisco Advantage

Consolidation

Convergence

Simplify deployment and management of Cisco®

services, technologies and platforms… Unified Access

One Management

Converged

Voice and Video

Virtualized

Network-Compute-Storage

Borderless

Collaboration

Data Center


Achieve Operational Excellence with Cisco Prime Infrastructure

• Independent "point" products

• Untimely device and technology

support

• Reliance on highly skilled staff

• Inconsistent user experience

• Difficult to install, administer, and

maintain

• Integrated solutions that align with major transitions

• Day-one device support for the Cisco® Advantage

• Use of Cisco best practices and knowledgebase

• Integrated workflows and user experience

• Single solution and virtual appliance

The Old Way The Cisco Prime™ Way


The Cisco Advantage

Simplify the deployment and management of Cisco® differentiated technologies and platforms

Use Cisco expertise and best practices to improve network design and troubleshooting

Integrate with Cisco knowledgebase to make more informed decisions

Support new Cisco platforms and technologies the day they ship


Cisco Prime Infrastructure

One Management for Unified Access

• A single integrated solution for comprehensive lifecycle management of wired/wireless access, campus, and branch networks

• Utilizes rich performance data for end-to-end network visibility to assure application delivery and optimal end-user experience

Prime Infrastructure Convergence Consolidation Cisco Advantage


Lifecycle End-to-End Lifecycle Management

• Converged Wired/Wireless, Campus and Branch Management

• Centralized Discovery, Inventory, Configuration Management, SWIM, and Proactive/Reactive Monitoring

• Accelerated Troubleshooting of Wired/Wireless Infrastructure Issues

• Customizable out-of-the-box Cisco best practices and validated design configuration templates for wired/wireless devices

• Unified Access Management and Client Tracking

• Infrastructure lifecycle reports – EoX, PSIRT

• Plug & Play for Automated Deployment

• 3rd party device support


Assurance Application Visibility and End User Experience

• End-to-End Visibility for Service-Aware Networking by Applications, Services, and End-Users

• Out-of-the-Box Support for Cisco Advanced Instrumentation

• Netflow, Flexible Netflow, AVC, NBAR, PA, Medianet, etc…

• Simplified End-to-End Visibility for Faster Troubleshooting

• Normalizes, Correlates, and Aggregates data Sources

• Automated Baselining with Dynamic Thresholds

• NBAR2 Customer Application Support

• Multi-NAM Management

• Service Health Dashboard


Prime Infrastructure – Assurance Management Powerful

Application Visibility and End-User Experience

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Cisco Catalyst 3750-X End-User Experience

• Wired/Wireless user experience

• User 360

• Voice quality experience

Visibility

• Application Traffic Analysis & Reporting

• Multi-NAM: Packet level debugging and troubleshooting

• WAN optimization visibility

Network Performance

• Device Availability and Interface polling

• Event/Alarm generation

• Configuration of devices for data and flow collection: NetFlow, Medianet, PA, NBAR

Netflow Generation Application (Prime NGA)


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Unified IT Operations Integrated Management Stack

• Network, DC, Security, Collab

• EMS, assurance, orchestration…

• Large Enterprise & SP Scale

Customer Consolidation Wired / Wireless Bundle

• Introduce PI as bundle

• Unified purchase & entitlement

One Management One wired/wireless/routing Product

• New & NCS customers use PI

• LMS migrates over time

Shipping Development Radar

PI Lifecycle

Prime

Infrastructure

2.0

PI Assurance

PI DC/Cloud

Assurance

PI Lifecycle

Prime

Infrastructure

CY13/14

PI Assurance

Prime

Infrastructure

1.x

PI Assurance

LMS 4.2

PI Lifecycle

Data Center • E2E assurance from user to DC

• DCNM integration

One Firewall • One Firewall in ASR / ISR

• PrSM integration

Wired & Wireless • Wired/wireless endpoint visibility

• ISE policy system integration

AVC for Branch & Edge • ISR / ASR / branch

• Assurance & app visibility with Prime NAM

integration

• Prime Site & Device 360`

Unified Access • Converged Access Architecture

• Unified wired / wireless / WAN

• ISE policy system integration

• User application experience


The path to One Management


Version WLC Issue Recommendation Exception

NCS 1.1 7.2 Remain until 2.0 Require WLC 7.3+

PI 1.2 7.3 CSAT issues Upgrade to PI 1.3

PI 1.3 7.4 Remain until 2.0 Require 802.11ac module or AP-700

PI 1.4 7.5 No path to 2.0 By exception only Only for customers moving to 7.5

LMS 4.2 N/A Review LMS to PI

migration doc here

LMS feature parity will occur throughout the

PI 2.x release train

PI 1.3 PI 1.4

PI 2.0 PI 2.1

PI 1.2

NCS 1.1

LMS 4.2


Recommended Upgrade Paths

http://nm8v.cisco.com/thevault/files/6443/3/LMS_Functional_Support_Referencev0213.pdf


PI 1.3 (FCS) January 2013

PI 1.4 (EC) May 2013

PI 2.0 (EC) June 2013

Radar CY13/14

Hardware

WLC 7.4 Support

AP 1600

AP 3600 WSSI Module

Catalyst 3850 (wired)

Hardware

WLC 7.5 support

MSE 7.5 support

802.11w support

802.11ac module

Hardware

Cat 3850 & 5760 WLC

WLC 7.4 support

Broad device support

(ASA 5500, Cat 6K, etc.)

Hardware

Virtually all Cisco Enterprise & DC

devices

DCNM Integration

PrSM Integration

Platform

15K AP, 5K wired scale

Upgrade enhancements

Platform

Platform

20K AP, 15K wired scale

IPv6

User & App 360 Views

VMware ESXi 5.1

Platform

500K AP, 300K wired cluster

External NetFlow collectors

Topology

Write APIs

Lifecycle

Cisco Apple Bonjour services directory

(mDNS)

FlexConnect enhancements

Connected Mobile Exprience

Location analytics

Lifecycle

Wireless policy classification

Client SSO

Faulty radio detection

FlexConnect Enhancements

Lifecycle

Guided deployment workflows

Mobility arch with RTTS

GPS, outdoor maps

TrustSec provisioning

EoX/PSIRT reporting

Lifecycle

iSAT/Campus FEX

AVC/QoS Visualization

ISR container mgnt

ISR app firewall

ScanSafe monitoring

Assurance

AVC for Wireless

Assurance

Assurance

AVC 2.0 prov & monitoring

Service Health Dashboard

Automatic Baselining

ASR packet capture

Top Domain/Top URL

Assurance

Distributed NF collectors

IPSLA

Video


Release Roadmap Detail [EXTERNAL]

Prime Infrastructure 2.0 Update


• Simplify configuration and management of the new 3850 converged access switch and 5760 wireless controller

• Out-of-the-box templates and best practices for quick error-free deployment

• New workflows for mobility architecture support

• ISR 4400 Overlord Support

• Greater device coverage

• Added support for 100+ Cisco devices, including ASAs, ONS, IOS-XR devices, AirOS, etc.

• Monthly Device Update packs

Broadening Supported Devices

New platform and technology support


Operationalizing the Cisco Advantage Turning Box Features into Network Features

• Prime Infrastructure sports a powerful templating engine, allowing customers to build templates for efficiency and automation

• Prime Infrastructure 2.0 also provides dozens of templates reflecting best practices in order to turn on IOS features

• Including One-Click AVC, Zone-Based Firewall, Medianet, etc.

• Readiness Assessments to prepare networks for specific technologies, including TrustSec 2.0 and IPv6


• Simplified troubleshooting and remediation improves application, services and end user experience

• Brings together multiple sources of information for effective problem isolation

• Quick “Prime 360” Views:

• User 360: Quickly isolate and fix end-user or end-point issues

• Device 360: Identify and fix device related problems

• Application 360: Identify and fix network issues related to app delivery

• Interface 360: Identify application load and related stats

Simplified Usability

The 360 Experience


• Simplify troubleshooting and remediation by correlating various sources of information

• Use 360 views for

Users

Devices

Interfaces

Applications

Simplified Usability

The 360 Experience

Policy

Connectivity

Context

Applications

User 360


Simplified Deployment Using Guided Workflows

Day 0 / Day 1 Plug & Play

• Day 0 ZTD for Switches and Routers

• Plug & Play Gateway embedded in PI 2.0

• Includes Apple iOS Plug & Play App allowing anyone to stage and push a configuration

• Day 0 / Day 1 Deployment of Unified Access devices

• Deployment workflow for tier 1/tier 2 engineers, with multi-tabbed template mode for advanced engineers

• Optimized deployment based on best practices

• Cisco recommended mobility domain configurations based on number of APs to be deployed

• Mobility Guided Workflow

• Simplified guided guest access configuration


Access to Cisco Knowledgebase Leave the guesswork out of it!

• Prime Infrastructure integrates with Cisco backend systems for increased visibility into impact analysis

• PSIRT (Security Advisories) reports provide an analysis on which devices are impacted based on:

• IOS version running on the device

• How the device is configured

• EoX reports provide a lifecycle management analysis on the devices

• Shows devices that are or will be ‘End-of-Sales’ or ‘End-of-Support’

• Allows customers to budget for upcoming refresh

• One-Click access to related posts and discussions on Cisco Forums

• One-Click creation of TAC Case

• Device and SmartNet Contract # automatically populated

• Common supporting documents automatically forwarded to TAC


Prime Infrastructure – Assurance

Driving Automation and Efficiency

• Automated Baselining

• Proactive Performance Troubleshooting

• Service Health Dashboard

• AVC Configuration for ISR/ASR

• One-click AVC Configuration

• AVC Monitoring Customization

• NBAR2 Custom Applications

• Embedded Packet Capture for ASR

• Top URL/Domain Views

The upcoming NAM 6.0 will provide

NBAR2 for your core/DC switches


Clustering and Distributed Data Collection (Post-2.0)

• Clustering Phase 1

- Focus on large scale wireless monitoring

- BETA target Jul 2013

- FCS target Q3 CY 2013

- Scale target:

• Distributed Data Collector Phase 1

- Focus on Netflow data aggregation

- BETA target July 2013

- FCS target Q3 CY 2013

Static Data Device

Affinity

Device

Affinity

Prime Infrastructure Instances

Prime Infrastructure Collectors

Prime Infrastructure (Cluster Console)

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Network Data

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Network DataStatic /

Network Data

Static /

Network Data

PI 1.2 PI 2.0 Cluster

Lightweight APs 15K 20K 500K

Wired Devices 5K 15K 300K

WLAN Clients 100K 200K 4M

Wired Clients 100K 100K 2M

Phase 1

Single Pane of Glass

Monitoring

• Unified Assets View

• Unified Alarms View

• Unified Clients views

• Consolidated Reports

• Consolidated Dashlets

• Consolidated Search


Key Takeaways for Prime Infrastructure

• Single Pane of Glass for true converged Wired/Wireless Lifecycle

and Assurance management – No other vendor does this!

• Centralized Policy integration (Prime and ISE) is unique in the

industry

• Saves Time to deploy Wireless/Voice/Video-ready Wiring Closet

and Branch

• Easy to enable Cisco best practice engineered into IOS and

instrumentation

• Power of embedded intelligence inherent in a Cisco network

improves application delivery and end user experience by using Prime NAM, Medianet, AVC, NetFlow, and NBAR2

Prime Infrastructure Additional Resources


Prime Infrastructure Quick Start VoD Series Get Valuable Guidance from the Experts!

• Detailed, 18-segment Quick Start VoDs cover essentials of how to download, deploy, configure and customize Prime Infrastructure.

• Available on Cisco’s YouTube Channel & PEC

• VoD Series available here:

‒ http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7406F0EF2BC7DED8

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7406F0EF2BC7DED8


Every Week* Prime Demo Series Topic Same Time Same Place

Every Monday Cisco Prime LMS

11:00 AM PST San Jose

Time (90 Min)

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Every Tuesday Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance & Provisioning

Every Wednesday Cisco Prime NAM & NGA

Every Thursday Cisco Prime Infrastructure (including Assurance)

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Day Prime Demo Series Topic Same Time Same Place

See Schedule (bi-weekly)

Cisco Prime Infrastructure (including Assurance) 9:30 AM GMT

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Every Wednesday Cisco Prime Data Center Network Management (DCNM)

9:00 AM PST (60 Min)

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Password: dcnmdemo

Free Trial Software www.cisco.com/go/nmsevals

APJC

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Every Week* Prime Demo Series Topic Same Time Same Place

Every 2nd Thursday Cisco Prime Infrastructure Lifecycle Mgmt & Assurance 12:00 PM Singapore

Time (90 Min)

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APJC

No Registration Required

Every 2nd Thursday (alternating week)

Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance & Provisioning

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Additional Resources

Cisco Prime™

www.cisco.com/go/prime


www.cisco.com/go/primeinfrastructure

Cisco Prime for Partners

www.cisco.com/go/partnernm

Free Trial and NFR Software Downloads

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