Organize your network resources into a flexible, multi-tenant data center infrastructure with Cisco Network Services Manager 5.0. Using Network Services Manager, you can integrate your network with your existing IT operational tools and processes.
The Network Services Manager network abstraction layer helps you provision and deploy numerous individual network components as sophisticated network "containers." You can create these containers:
In addition, Cisco Network Services Manager:
Cisco Network Services Manager offers a flexible, policy-directed approach to managing and controlling cloud computing network services. Through a configuration user interface, Network Services Manager helps administrators dynamically define and control an array of behaviors in their cloud computing environment, including:
Network Services Manager consists of two Linux servers deployed as OVA images in a VMware virtual data center reserved for management of the equipment. Table 1 lists system requirements for Network Services Manager Engine software, Table 2 gives the system requirements for Network Services Manager Controller software, and Table 3 lists the system requirements for browser access to Network Services Manager.
Table 1. Network Services Manager Engine Software
Hardware | Dual Core CPU |
Disk space | 40 GB |
Memory | 2 GB |
Table 2. Network Services Manager Controller Software
Hardware | Dual Core CPU |
Disk space | 40 GB |
Memory | 1 GB |
Table 3. Browser Software Access to Network Services Manager
Hardware | Dual Core CPU |
Software | Firefox 3.6 and 4, Internet Explorer 7 and 8 |
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