Components of GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure

The GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure consists of the following components:

Component

Description

GigaVUE® Fabric Manager

(GigaVUE-FM)

A web-based fabric management interface that provides a single pane of glass visibility and management of both the physical and virtual traffic that forms the GigaVUE Cloud for Azure.

GigaVUE-FM manages the configuration of the rest of the components in your cloud platform.

  • G-vTAP Controllers (only if you are using G-vTAP Agent as the traffic acquisition method)
  • For V Series 2 Configuration
    • GigaVUE® V Series Proxy
    • GigaVUE® V Series 2 nodes
  • For V Series 1 Configuration
    • GigaVUE® V Series Controllers
    • GigaVUE® V Series 1 nodes

G-vTAP Agents

An agent that is installed in your virtual machines. This agent mirrors the selected traffic from the virtual machines to the GigaVUE V Series node.

G-vTAP Controllers

Manages multiple G-vTAP Agents and orchestrates the flow of mirrored traffic to GigaVUE V Series nodes. GigaVUE-FM uses one or more G-vTAP Controllers to communicate with the G-vTAP Agents.

GigaVUE V Series Controllers or Proxy

Manages multiple GigaVUE V Series nodes and orchestrates the flow of traffic from GigaVUE V Series nodes to the monitoring tools. GigaVUE-FM uses one or more GigaVUE V Series Controllers to communicate with the GigaVUE V Series nodes.

GigaVUE V Series nodes

A visibility node that aggregates mirrored traffic from multiple GvTAP agents. It applies filters, manipulates the packets using GigaSMART applications, and distributes the optimized traffic to cloud-based tools or backhaul to on premise device or tools. GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure uses the standard VXLAN tunnel to deliver traffic to tool endpoints.

This solution is launched by subscribing to the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure in the Azure Marketplace. Once the GigaVUE‑FM is launched in Azure, the rest of the solution components are launched from GigaVUE‑FM.

For V Series 2 configuration, you can only configure the GigaVUE fabric components in a Centralized VNet only. In case of a shared VNet, you must select a VNet as your Centralized VNet for GigaVUE fabric configuration.

For V Series 1 configuration, you can choose the following option for configuring the components described above:

Standard Configuration

GigaVUE V Series nodes, GigaVUE V Series controllers and G-vTAP controllers are launched in all VNets

This guide provides instructions on launching GigaVUE‑FM in Azure. For information about installing GigaVUE‑FM in your enterprise data center, refer to the GigaVUE‑FM Installation and Upgrade .