Step 3: Deploy V Series nodes on VMware NSX-T

This chapter describes how to create a monitoring domain for deploying V Series node in VMware NSX-T hosts. You must establish a connection between GigaVUE-FM and your vCenter environment before you can perform the configuration steps for V Series node. After a connection is established, GigaVUE-FM launches the configuration for the V Series node.

Refer to the following sections for details:

Connect to VMware vCenter

To configure VMware vCenter in GigaVUE-FM:

  1. In GigaVUE-FM, on the top navigation bar, select Cloud.
  2. On the left navigation pane, select VMware > Monitoring Domain. The Monitoring Domain page appears.
  3. On the Monitoring Domain page, click New. The VMware Configuration page appears.

  4. In the VMware Configuration page, enter or select the following details:

    Field

    Description
    Monitoring Domain Name of the monitoring domain
    Connection Alias Name of the connection
    Virtual Center IP address of the vCenter
    Username Username of the vCenter user with admin role privilege
    Password vCenter Password used to connect to the vCenter
    Setup NSX-T Enable to Setup NSX-T and the fields of NSX-T appears.

    Enter or select the following details:

    • NSX-T Manager: IP address or Hostname of your VMware NSX-T.
    • NSX-T Username: Username of the your NSX-T account.
    • NSX-T Password: Password of the your NSX-T account.

      Note:  The NSX-T user account must have admin privileges.

    • GigaVUE-FM Username: Username of the your GigaVUE-FM account.
    • GigaVUE-FM Password: Password of the your GigaVUE-FM account.
    • Image URL: Web Server URL of the directory where V Series node OVA, VMDK, and OVF files are available. The Web Server URL listens on port 80 and needs to be in the follwoing format.
      http://<server-IP>/<path to where the OVF files are saved>

    Note:  Before VMware Configuration, all the contents of the OVA file must be extracted and placed in the directory which represents the Image URL.
  5. Click Save and you are navigated to VMware NSX-T Fabric Deployment page.

Deploy V Series fabric on VMware NSX-T

  1. In the VMware NSX-T Fabric Deployment page, enter or select the following details.

    Field

    Description

    DatacentervCenter Data Center with the NSX-T hosts to be provisioned with V Series nodes

    Cluster

    		Cluster where you want to deploy V Series nodes

    Datastore

    		Network datastore shared among all NSX-T hosts.
    Management NetworkManagement network for V Series nodes

    Tunnel Network

    		Tunnel Network for the V Series nodes

    Tunnel Gateway IP

    		IP address of the Tunnel Gateway
    Tunnel CIDRCIDR value of the Tunnel

    User Password: (gigamon)

    		SSH Password of the V Series node
    Form FactorInstance size of the V Series node

    Service Attachment

    		Service segment created on NSX-T

    Deployment Type

    		Type of V series node deployment. You can select Clustered or Host Based deployment type

    Deployment Count (for Clustered deployment type)

    		Number of V Series nodes (Service Instances) to deploy
  2. Click Deploy. Once the V series node is deployed in vCenter, it appears in the Monitoring Domain page under fabric tab of the selected Monitoring Domain.