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The Cisco Nexus Dashboard Platform physical appliance previously known as the Application Services Engine is designed to support the Cisco Nexus Dashboard. Refer to the Cisco Nexus Dashboard datasheet.
The Cisco Nexus Dashboard is a unified automation platform that hosts powerful day-2 operations applications, such as Cisco Nexus Insights, Cisco Network Assurance Engine (NAE) and Cisco Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO).
Cisco Application Services Engine is based on powerful compute hardware. The minimum cluster size comprises of three nodes. Each node is powered with 20 cores, 9.6TB of HDD, 256G memory, and 1.6TB of NVME SSD. Nodes can be added to the initial cluster to power additional application needs.
Table 1. Cisco Nexus Dashboard physical platform features and benefits
| Feature |
Benefit |
| Network automation |
● Touchless bootstrap of cluster nodes.
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| Scale-out architecture |
● As application needs grow, simply add more cluster nodes to meet demand.
● Cluster architecture provides high availability and resiliency for applications.
|
| Powerful performance hardware |
● Each node has powerful hardware to deliver maximum scale and performance for the applications the cluster is hosting.
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| Unified platform |
● A single Cisco Nexus Dashboard cluster based on the Cisco Application Services Engine can host all insights and assurance applications and potentially other applications in the future (including Cisco Multi-Site Orchestrator [MSO] and Cisco Network Assurance Engine).
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There are no direct platform dependencies for Cisco Nexus Dashboard platform physical appliance.
There are no licensing requirements for the Cisco Nexus Dashboard physical appliance. Refer to the ordering guide for more information.
Table 2. Cisco Nexus Dashboard physical platform node specifications
| Hardware specifications |
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Platform (Formerly known as Application Services Engine) Specifications (per cluster node) |
| Memory |
256G |
| Processors |
2* 10 cores each |
| Hard disk |
4* 2.4TB each = 9.6TB total |
| SSD |
400G |
| NVME |
1.6TB |
| Power supply |
1050W |
Table 3. Cisco Nexus Dashboard physical platform cluster specifications
| Cluster specifications |
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Platform (Formerly known as Application Services Engine) |
| Minimum |
3 nodes |
| Maximum |
7 |
Table 4. Cisco Nexus Dashboard physical ordering information
| Part # |
Product description |
| SE-CL-L3 |
Cisco Application Services Engine Performance cluster |
| SE-NODE-G2= |
Cisco Application Services Engine Cluster node |
Cisco Application Services Engine clusters have a 90-day limited liability warranty.
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