GigaVUE-VM Features and Benefits

GigaVUE-VM Visibility Fabric™ 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.

The following table summarizes the major features and benefits of GigaVUE-VM:

Benefit	Descriptions
Visibility into VM Traffic	Intelligent selection, filtering, and forwarding of VM traffic to the monitoring and tool infrastructure; extend the reach and leverage of existing tools to monitor virtual network infrastructure; on-board virtual traffic visibility for n-tier application cluster.
Multi-Hypervisor Support	Supports the most popular private cloud hypervisors and VMware ESXi.
Support for Packet Slicing	Conserve production network backhaul and optimize monitoring infrastructure processing by slicing VM traffic at required offset, before forwarding it for analysis
Integration with Unified Visibility Fabric and GigaSECURE® Security Delivery Platform	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 Flow Mapping®® and GigaSMART® intelligence can be applied on the virtual traffic before forwarding the tools.
Tunneling Support	Leverage the production network to tunnel and forward the filtered virtual traffic from the hypervisor to the GigaVUE platforms; tenant-based IP Tunneling facilitates isolation, privacy, and compliance of monitoring traffic. Simplified virtual traffic policy creation to identify and select the physical tunnel termination end-point where the filtered and transformed virtual workload traffic is to be delivered.
Support for vMotion and LiveMigration	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.
Virtual Switch Agnostic Solution	VMware: vNetwork Standard Switch (vSS), vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS), and NSX-V.
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.
Hotspot monitoring	Pro-actively monitor and troubleshoot GigaVUE-VM nodes by elevating Top-N and Bottom-N virtual traffic policies to the centralized dashboards.