Recommended Instance Type and Size

The following table lists the recommended instance type and size per V Series node for the components.

Table 1: Recommended Instance Type per V Series Node

Component

Instance Type/Size

GigaVUE-FM

m4.xlarge

G-vTAP Agent

t2.micro

G-vTAP/V-Series Controller

t2.micro

Note:  t2.nano instance type is not supported

GigaVUE® V Series nodes

Table 2: Recommended Instance Types AWS Traffic Mirroring lists the instance type and size if the GigaVUE V Series node just receives and tunnels the traffic out.

Note:  C5.large is the recommended instance type if the total mirrored traffic from targets is around 1.5Gbps.

Table 3: Recommended Instance Types with GigaSMART Applications Running lists the instance type and size if the GigaVUE V Series node has application running on it.

Note:  C5.Xlarge or C5.2Xlarge instances are the recommended instance types if applications are being used. C5.Xlarge can handle around 1Gbps of masked traffic (with 79% CPU utilization) and C5.2xlarge can handle 1Gbps (with 40-50% CPU utilization).

Table 2: Recommended Instance Types AWS Traffic Mirroring

Instance Type

Throughput (Packets per second)

Throughput (Mbps)

Framelength (bytes)

c4.large

54308

602

1454

c4.xlarge

71110

788

1454

c4.2xlarge

175302

1944

1454

c4.4xlarge

260564

2890

1454

c5.large

270500

2900

1454

c5.xlarge

292297

3400

1454

c5.2xlarge

309491

3600

1454

Table 3: Recommended Instance Types with GigaSMART Applications Running

Instance Type

Throughput (Packets per second)

Throughput (Mbps)

Framelength (bytes)

c4.large

29372

325

1454

c4.xlarge

37736

418

1454

c4.2xlarge

145901

1618

1454

c4.4xlarge

169012

1874

1454

c5.large

54160

630

1454

c5.xlarge

104023

1010

1454

c5.2xlarge

206320

2400

1454