GigaVUE H Series Features and Benefits

The following table lists the major features and benefits of the GigaVUE H Series:

Benefit

Descriptions

Web-Based Management

Manage the operations of the GigaVUE H Series node using H-VUE, Gigamon’s simple but powerful Web-based interface for GigaVUE H Series nodes.

H-VUE makes it easy to set up flow mapping, allowing you to see at a glance which network ports are delivering which packets to individual tool ports. Reconfigure flow mapping on the fly, selecting the packets you need when you need them.

CLI Management

Configure the operations of the GigaVUE H Series node using a command-line interface, the GigaVUE‑OS:

■   Local access over the serial console port on control card.
■   Remote network access using SSH2 over the 10/100/1000 Ethernet Mgmt port on control card.
■   Secure access to the CLI, either through local authentication or optional RADIUS/TACACS+/LDAP support.

Scalable Port Density

Use the line cards that best suit your port density needs. Depending on the line cards installed in the node, you can have as many as 256 10Gb ports (a node fully populated with PRT-H00-Q02X32 line cards). In addition, the GigaVUE H Series node evolves with network speeds, including line cards with 40Gb and 100Gb support for data centers and service providers.

Cluster Support

Connect multiple GigaVUE H Series nodes in a self-healing, intelligent cluster. When you create a cluster of GigaVUE H Series nodes, available ports appear as a unified fabric, with ingress ports able to send packets to any egress port, regardless of its physical chassis.

Nodes are connected through stack links consisting of one or more 10Gb, 40Gb, or 100Gb ports. Cluster management traffic can be carried out-of-band on its own network or inband on stack links.

Share SPAN Ports

Connect a SPAN port to a network port on the GigaVUE H Series node and multicast that traffic to multiple different tool ports, giving multiple different tools access to the same data.

Use flow mapping to send specific traffic to different tool ports, ensuring that each tool sees the data that best suits its individual strengths. You can move, add, and reconfigure tools at will without affecting production networks.

Aggregate Links

Send the data from multiple different network ports to one or more tool ports, allowing you to combine traffic from multiple access points into a single stream for analysis.

Flow Mapping®

The GigaVUE H Series Flow Mapping® features let you direct traffic arriving on network ports to one or more tool ports based on different packet criteria, including VLAN IDs, IP addresses, port ranges, protocols, bit patterns, and so on. You can drop some traffic intentionally using drop rules and also create a shared-collector destination for any packets not matching the maps configured on a shared set of network ports.

GigaVUE-FM Support

Deploy Gigamon’s umbrella fabric management system, GigaVUE-FM to manage all of your GigaVUE H Series and G Series nodes. The GigaVUE H Series is fully compatible with GigaVUE-FM, allowing you to centralize deployment of images, configuration backups, and alert management.

Role-Based Access

Role-based access makes it easy to share the Gigamon Visibility Platform between different groups of users with different needs. Administrators can assign egress ports to different groups of users. Users can then select the traffic they need to see from shared ingress ports. Administrators adjust map priority to ensure that each packet is delivered to the correct destination.

Cisco-Style CLI

The GigaVUE H Series node’s CLI offers a similar style to the familiar Cisco interface, minimizing relearning for IT professionals.

Command Abbreviation

Type only as many letters of a command as are needed to positively differentiate from other available commands. For example, you only need to type co t to enter Configure mode, not the full configure terminal command (although that works, too!).

SNMP Support

Rely on secure SNMP v3 access to the onboard SNMP agent as well as v1/v2 SNMP traps.

Email Notifications

Use email alerts for proactive notification of a wide variety of GigaVUE events, helping you keep tabs on system status in real time.

Modularized Design

Hot-pluggable line cards, power supplies, and fan trays allow for flexibility and future growth. For GigaVUE‑HC1, GigaVUE‑HC2, and GigaVUE‑HC3, the modules are interchangeable between the front bays of each chassis type, but not with each other, due to form and factor.

Flexible 10Gb/1Gb Support

All 10Gb ports in GigaVUE H Series line cards can be used with 1Gb Ethernet media by inserting a copper or optical SX/LX SFP instead of an SFP+. Interoperability and support are ensured by purchasing SFPs from Gigamon – transceivers purchased from other vendors are not supported.