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. |