GigaVUE V Series Quick Start

GigaVUE Cloud Suite are cloud-native solutions that acquire, optimize and distribute selected traffic to security and monitoring tools. The suite enable enterprises to extend their security posture to both public and private cloud and also accelerate the time to detect threats to applications while taking advantage of a reliable, scalable and available cloud environment.

This solution includes three main components:

GigaVUE V Series Node: Processes network traffic and allows administrators to provide additional functionality including forwarding, de-duplication, and NetFlow generation

G-vTAP Agents: Acquires traffic from the host on which it is deployed and transfers it to the V Series Node.

GigaVUE‑FM: Provides detailed analytics for the solution and can optionally orchestrate the deployed components.

What is a V Series Node?

A V Series Node is a virtual machine running in the customer's infrastructure which processes and distributes network traffic. It plays the same role as an H Series appliance in a physical deployment, running many of the same GigaSMART applications and feeding data to tools in a similar manner. Because V Series nodes reside in a virtualized environment, inbound and outbound traffic is tunneled (because there are no physical device ports).

 

V Series 1.x nodes:

  • Platform support—AWS, Azure, Nutanix, OpenStack, "AnyCloud"

  • GigaSMART support—Deduplication, NetFlow generation, Slicing, Masking

  • Licensing—Licensed per platform (Sold in bundles of nodes, e.g. 100 / 1000), separate SKUs for each

V Series 2.x nodes:

  • Platform support—AWS, Azure, VMware (ESXi and NSX-T), OpenStack

  • GigaSMART support—Deduplication, NetFlow, AMI, AFI, Slicing, Masking

  • Licensing—Licensed according to traffic volume. With Volume Based Licensing, the customer can choose any supported platform, or combination of platforms.

GigaVUE Cloud Suite supports V Series 1 and V Series 2, however, V Series 2 is recommended. V Series 1 are older and are replaced by the newer and better V Series 2.

Cloud Platform Guides V Series

Public Cloud

 

AWS

GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS Guide

V Series 1 and V Series 2

Azure

GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure Guide

V Series 1 and V Series 2

Private Cloud

 

OpenStack

GigaVUE Cloud Suite for OpenStack Guide

V Series 2

VMware

GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guide

V Series 2

Other Platforms

 

AnyCloud

GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AnyCloud Guide

V Series 1

Note on Legacy Products

 

Before V Series nodes were supported in VMware environments, Gigamon's visibility solution utilized a different architecture. Virtualized traffic acquisition was performed by a GigaVUE-VM running on an ESXi hypervisor and that traffic was forwarded to H Series appliances for processing and distribution.

If you wish to keep that network architecture a V Series 2 node can be configured to forward all traffic to an H Series appliance, effectively functioning as a GigaVUE-VM. In order to start applying GigaSMART applications in the V Series node, you must allocate more RAM and vCPU resources to the nodes.

 

Topics:

■   Volume-Based Licensing (VBL)
■   GigaVUE V Series in VMware 
■   GigaVUE V Series in OpenStack
■   GigaVUE V Series in Azure
■   GigaVUE V Series in AWS
■   GigaVUE‑FM Version Compatibility Matrix
■   Supported GigaSMART Operations
■   GigaVUE V Series Logs and Commands