In your browser, open another instance of the browser or another tab. Copy the url to Nexus Dashboard:
At the ND login screen, login using your username and password:
After successfully logging in to the ND, you will be presented with the Welcome Admin page.
You logged into the Nexus Dashboard — the single pane of glass for managing your entire data center network. From this one interface, you will create fabrics, discover switches, deploy configurations, and monitor health across all your sites. No CLI needed for Day 0 through Day 2 operations.
Continue to the next section.
Nexus Dashboard (ND) is the Next-Generation of Data Center Network Manager (DCNM). ND is the network management platform for all NX-OS (Nexus switching) enabled deployments; spanning VXLAN EVPN fabrics and classic LAN architectures, IP Fabric for Media, and storage networking deployments for the Cisco Nexus-powered data center. This session will focus on the automated provisioning of VXLAN EVPN fabrics using the new workflow of ND. These workflows will be on best practice template-based provisioning capabilities with built-in configuration compliance and the myriad deployment scenarios. In this session, participants will learn to use ND to automate the provisioning of Greenfield and Brownfield VXLAN EVPN fabrics and external fabric connectivity using VRF-lite. Participants will also learn how to customize templates and policy to meet deployment requirements. Participants will further learn how to use Network as Code collection to automate VXLAN EVPN overlay configuration. Participants will achieve all this by following a concise lab that is focused on details, references, and more. The concepts from this lab can be leveraged for a production VXLAN EVPN fabric.
| Christian Capitan | ccapitan@cisco.com |
| Luis Flores | luflores@cisco.com |
| Cesar Obediente | co@cisco.com |
