Volume Based License (VBL)
All the V Series 2 nodes connected to GigaVUE-FM periodically reports statistics on the amount of traffic that flows through the V Series Nodes. The statistics give information on the actual data volume that flows through the V Series Nodes. All licensed applications, when running on the node, generate usage statistics. In the Volume-Based Licensing (VBL) scheme, a license entitles specific applications on your devices to use a specified amount of total data volume over the term of the license. The distribution of the license to individual nodes or devices becomes irrelevant for Gigamon’s accounting purpose. GigaVUE-FM tracks the total amount of data processed by the various licensed applications and provides visibility into the actual amount of data, each licensed application is using on each node, and track the overuse if any.
. Service period is the period of time for which the total usage or overage is tracked. There is a grace period for each license that is encoded in the license file. The license effectively provides data allowance for this additional time after the official end time of the license.
For purchasing licenses with the Volume-Based License (VBL) option, contact our Sales. Refer to Contact Sales.
How GigaVUE-FM Tracks Volume-Based License Usage
GigaVUE-FM tracks the license usage for each V series node as follows:
- When you create and deploy a monitoring session, GigaVUE-FM allows you to use only those applications that are licensed at that point.
- When a license goes into grace period, you will be notified, along with a list of monitoring sessions that would be affected after the expiry of the grace period.
- When a license expires (and has not been renewed yet), the monitoring sessions using the corresponding license will be undeployed, but not deleted from the database.
- When a license is renewed or newly imported, the undeployed monitoring sessions will be redeployed.
For more detailed information on dashboards and reports generation for Volume-Based Licensing refer the following table:
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Volume-Based License usage details from GigaVUE-FM GUI |
GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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How to generate Volume-Based License reports |
GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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Volume-Based Licensed report details |
GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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Fabric health analytics dashboards for Volume-Based Licenses usage |
GigaVUE-FM User Guide |
Default Trial Licenses
After you install GigaVUE-FM, a default free 1TB of CoreVUE trial volume-based license (VBL) is provided one-time for 30 days (from the date of installation).
This license includes the following applications:
- ERSPAN
- Geneve
- Slicing
- Masking
- Trailer
- Tunneling
- Load Balancing
- Enhanced Load Balancing
- Flowmap
- Header-stripping
- Add header
Note: There is no grace period for the trial license. If you do not have any other Volume-based licenses installed, then after 30 days, on expiry of the trial license, any deployed monitoring sessions will be undeployed from the existing V series 2.0 nodes.
To deactivate the trial VBL refer to Delete Default Trial Licenses section for details.
