Active Visibility for Virtual Workloads
With exponential growth in virtualized traffic within the data center, a primary challenge for the centralized monitoring infrastructure is to access this virtual traffic for application, network and security analysis. The Gigamon® GigaVUE-VM Visibility FabricT node provides an intelligent filtering technology that allows virtual machine (VM) traffic flows of interest to be selected, forwarded, and delivered to the monitoring infrastructure centrally attached to the GigaVUE® platforms, thereby eliminating any traffic blind spots in the enterprise private clouds or service provider NFV deployments.
Gigamon is the only vendor to provide traffic visibility solutions for virtual workloads in VMware-powered SDDC (ESX and NSX-V) and OpenStack/KVM-powered multi-tenant clouds.
Features & Benefits
- Visibility into Virtual Traffic-Intelligently select, filter, and forward tenant virtual traffic to the monitoring and tool infrastructure, extending the reach and leveraging existing tools to monitor virtual network infrastructure
- Multi-Hypervisor Support-Supports the most popular private cloud hypervisors, VMware ESXi, VMware NSX-V and KVM/OpenStack
- Virtual Switch Agnostic Solution-Support for VMware vSS/vDS and Cisco Nexus 1000V and any virtual switch on KVM
- Automated Visibility for VMware NSX-Use VMware NSX Dynamic Service Insertion to associate visibility policies with security groups, thereby providing continuous and automated traffic visibility for applications as they scale up
- Centralized Management-Manage and monitor the physical and virtual fabric nodes using GigaVUE-FM while also configuring the traffic policies to access, select, transform, and deliver the traffic to the tools
- Integration with Gigamon's Unified Visibility Fabric-Seamless end-to-end visibility across physical and virtual network infrastructure. Optimize monitoring infrastructure by enabling aggregation, replication, and sharing of traffic streams across multiple monitoring tools and IT teams. Additional intelligence gained from Flow Mapping® and GigaSMART® technologies can be applied on the virtual traffic before forwarding the tools
- Support for Packet Slicing-Further reduce IO resources by removing irrelevant information with packet slicing before sending to the tool, and optimize long-term storage of data by capturing only the data of interest
- Tunneling Support-Leverage the production network to tunnel (support standards based L2GRE encapsulation) and forward the filtered virtual traffic from the hypervisor to the GigaVUE platforms
- Optimized Traffic Delivery-Tunneled traffic can be marked with DSCP values for per hop behavior to get preferential treatment on the production network. If changing MTU size in the network is an issue, fragmentation can be enabled to transport the packets using standard MTU sizes. These packets will then be re-assembled at the Visibility Fabric nodes before further analysis
- Support for vMotion and Live MIgration-Ensure the integrity of visibility and monitoring policies in a dynamic infrastructure, have real-time adjustment of monitoring and security posture to virtual network changes, and the ability to respond to disasters/failures without losing NOC insight and control
- Hotspot monitoring-Pro-actively monitor and troubleshoot GigaVUE-VM nodes by elevating Top-N and Bottom-N virtual traffic policies to the centralized dashboards
- Centralized Management-Manage and monitor the physical and virtual fabric nodes using GigaVUE-FM while also configuring the traffic policies to access, select, transform and deliver the traffic to the tools