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Announcing Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.3: Nexus One Architecture, AI Observability and Operational Efficiency
Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.3 expands VXLAN and ACI interoperability, adds a native MCP server, increased telemetry for AI jobs and simplified daily operations.
Cisco Unified Edge: Powering the Next Generation of Intelligent Infrastructure
Cisco's Unified Edge Platform redefines distributed computing by delivering real-time intelligence and efficiency at data creation points. With energy-efficient design and centralized management via Intersight, it transforms industries from retail to healthcare. Experience the future of edge computing — intelligent, secure and scalable — wherever data is generated.
Inside WWT's ATC: Operating at Scale with Cisco Nexus Dashboard
WWT experts break down Cisco Nexus Dashboard, its features and value, and show how it runs inside the Advanced Technology Center.
Deploying a Nexus Dashboard Cluster: A Guided Walkthrough
A step-by-step walkthrough for standing up a new Nexus Dashboard cluster and getting it ready to build Cisco data center fabrics.
Day-2 Operations: The Critical Data Center Network Component
While Day 0 planning and Day 1 deployment capture initial attention, Day 2 operations—ongoing monitoring, automation, compliance and optimization—account for up to 70 percent of total data center network costs. Without a proactive strategy, enterprises face rising expenses, outages and security risks. To reduce TCO and improve resilience, organizations are adopting AI-driven and automated platforms like Arista CloudVision and Cisco Nexus Dashboard to streamline Day 2 tasks. Investing in visibility, operational simplicity and intelligent automation is now essential for long-term success.
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Announcing Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.3: Nexus One Architecture, AI Observability and Operational Efficiency
Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.3 expands VXLAN and ACI interoperability, adds a native MCP server, increased telemetry for AI jobs and simplified daily operations.
Deploying a Nexus Dashboard Cluster: A Guided Walkthrough
A step-by-step walkthrough for standing up a new Nexus Dashboard cluster and getting it ready to build Cisco data center fabrics.
Inside WWT's ATC: Operating at Scale with Cisco Nexus Dashboard
WWT experts break down Cisco Nexus Dashboard, its features and value, and show how it runs inside the Advanced Technology Center.
Watch Cisco Cloud Control in Action
Discover a unified platform that brings every Cisco product, network asset, and intelligent workflow together in one place.
Enterprise AI Readiness: What It Really Requires
Enterprise AI readiness depends on secure, full-stack architecture, disciplined use-case selection and validated deployment models. WWT helps organizations test and operationalize that readiness through its AI Proving Ground and ATC, with NVIDIA and Cisco technologies supporting AI factory, security and observability requirements.
Securing AI from Core to Edge: Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
AI expands the attack surface. Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA fights back. Security engineered into every layer—models, apps, AI workloads, and infrastructure. From core to edge, trusted AI starts here.
Simple, Secure & Unified from Core to Edge: Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
Scaling AI shouldn't mean added complexity. Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA delivers a unified, secure operating model—from core to edge. Validated designs, built-in security, and Splunk end-to-end observability from AI agents to infrastructure.
Modernizing Operations with Cisco Nexus Dashboard
Join WWT and Cisco for an immersive workshop designed to evolve your data center from manual CLI management to an AI-ready, intent-based network via Nexus Dashboard.
Modernizing Operations with Cisco Nexus Dashboard
Join WWT and Cisco for an immersive workshop designed to evolve your data center from manual CLI management to an AI-ready, intent-based network via Nexus Dashboard.
Modernizing Operations with Cisco Nexus Dashboard
Join WWT and Cisco for an immersive workshop designed to evolve your data center from manual CLI management to an AI-ready, intent-based network via Nexus Dashboard.
Modernizing Operations with Cisco Nexus Dashboard
Join WWT and Cisco for an immersive workshop designed to evolve your data center from manual CLI management to an AI-ready, intent-based network via Nexus Dashboard.
Announcing Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.2: The Secure, Unified Foundation for the AI Era
Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.2 revolutionizes data center management with advanced AI observability, eBPF-powered security, native Splunk integration and many other new enhancements. This release empowers seamless, resilient and intelligent operations, ensuring real-time insights and zero downtime. Embrace the future of hybrid cloud networks with unparalleled control and efficiency.
Exploring Cisco NEXUS Dashboard 3.2
Cisco has been at the forefront of developing a suite of standalone tools for data center networking, collectively known as the Day 2 Operations Suite. Recently, Cisco has initiated the integration of these tools into a unified interface called NEXUS Dashboard, providing a consolidated view and shared data repositories for enhanced application correlation. This Learning path is designed specifically for those new to networking or new to the NEXUS Dashboard product. Future learning paths will go into more detail about operating and implementing the NEXUS Dashboard platform.
Monitoring datacenter networks with Cisco NEXUS Dashboard 3.2 and Insights
Cisco Nexus Dashboard provides a unified and seamless experience for common data center services (Figure 2) on your networks, whether Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI), Cisco NX-OS (through its Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller service and/or running in standalone mode), or even some third-party switches. The Cisco Nexus Dashboard Admin Console (Figure 4) informs the operator of the health of the various clusters, fabrics, and infrastructure services to quickly detect issues and their root cause, allowing users to toggle between the different Cisco Nexus Dashboard services as needed. Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator, and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights services are being integrated as part of simplifying the overall consumption experience for our customers. Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) consolidates management for multiple NX-OS‒based switches, bringing automation and monitoring for LAN, EVPN VXLAN, and SAN fabrics.
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Operating Cisco NEXUS Dashboard 3.2
The Cisco Nexus Dashboard platform serves as a unified management interface for diverse data center networks, offering a shared environment to operate Cisco's suite of data center services, including Nexus Dashboard Insights (NDI), Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO) and NEXUS Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC). This lab will guide the user on the necessary administrative steps to set up the NEXUS Dashboard platform. These include backup, upgrades, authentication, remote storage, and other critical administrative tasks.
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Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.1 Platform
Cisco has long led the development of standalone tools for data center networking, collectively known as the Day 2 Operations Suite. Recently, these tools have begun converging into a single unified platform called NEXUS Dashboard, which delivers a consolidated interface and shared data repositories to improve application correlation.
This learning path is designed for administrators responsible for the daily operation and maintenance of the NEXUS Dashboard platform. It includes videos and a hands-on lab covering the essential tasks a typical administrator must perform.
We'll explore what's new in NEXUS Dashboard 4.1, how to configure management-network routing, set up syslog, integrate remote NFS and SFTP storage and perform backups. We'll also walk through creating users and roles, and configuring Intersight. Finally, we will deploy an ACI simulator and onboard the ACI fabrics into the NEXUS Dashboard environment.
Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.1: VXLAN EVPN Fabric Deployment
This learning path introduces you to deploying and operating VXLAN EVPN fabrics using Cisco Nexus Dashboard as a centralized orchestration and automation platform. You'll begin by onboarding and preparing your Nexus switches, then progress into core fabric configuration, including vPCs, VRFs, and networks to support segmentation and tenant connectivity. Next, you'll implement external route advertisement and route leaking to enable inter-VRF communication, while examining how Border Gateways and Border Gateway Spines function within the fabric. The path concludes with integrating multiple fabrics into a Multi-Site Domain, giving you hands-on experience building a scalable, distributed architecture. Throughout the journey, you'll see how Nexus Dashboard delivers unified visibility, streamlined workflows, and simplified end-to-end management across fabrics and sites.
Accelerate AI innovation with Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
The Cisco Secure AI Factory, developed in collaboration with NVIDIA and strategic partners, is a powerful solution that propels enterprises toward secure and rapid AI adoption. This integrated solution combines cutting-edge AI infrastructure, inherent security features, and advanced AI software tools, paving the way for transformative possibilities.
Cisco Unified Edge: Powering the Next Generation of Intelligent Infrastructure
Cisco's Unified Edge Platform redefines distributed computing by delivering real-time intelligence and efficiency at data creation points. With energy-efficient design and centralized management via Intersight, it transforms industries from retail to healthcare. Experience the future of edge computing — intelligent, secure and scalable — wherever data is generated.
Segmentation in the Data Center With Cisco Nexus Dashboard
This post reviews the steps needed to define and configure data center segmentation policies using Cisco's Nexus Dashboard platform alongside the results of these actions in a lab topology.