What's New
What's New contains a list of features and functionalities introduced in recent releases.
GigaVUE 6.0 Software offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the new capabilities described below.
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New GigaVUE‑TA25E Device The GigaVUE‑TA25E is the latest member of the GigaVUE TA Series. It has a fixed module that supports ports of provides 48 25Gb/10Gb/1Gb ports ( x1...x48) and 8 100Gb/40Gb ports (c1..c8).
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New GigaVUE‑TA200E Device The GigaVUE‑TA200E is the latest member of the GigaVUE TA Series. It has a fixed module that supports 64 100Gb/40 Gb ports.
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Increase or Decrease Nodes in a Cluster for VMware NSX-T You can increase or decrease the number of V Series nodes in an existing monitoring domain when using Cluster-based deployments. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite Configure GigaVUE V Series Nodes for VMware NSX-T GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guide |
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Volume-Based Licensing Modifications The following details are newly added to the Volume-based licensing scheme:
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GigaVUE Cloud Suite GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guide |
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Support for Sharing the Same Host across Different Monitoring Domains in VMware You can deploy multiple GigaVUE V Series Nodes from VMware NSX-T monitoring domain and one V Series node from VMware ESXi monitoring domain on the same host. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite Sharing the Same Host across Different Monitoring Domains Configure GigaVUE V Series Nodes for VMware NSX-T GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guide |
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Universal Container Tap Universal Container Tap (UCT) is the new GigaVUE container tap that provides network traffic acquisition for containerized environments. Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, VMware Tanzu, Red Hat OpenShift, and native Kubernetes are the platforms supported for UCT. |
Universal Container Tap Universal Container Tap Guide |
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GigaVUE-VM to GigaVUE V Series Migration in VMware ESXi and NSX-V You can now migrate your GigaVUE-VM visibility solution to GigaVUE V Series visibility solution on VMware ESXi and NSX-V. Following are the two primary scenarios for GigaVUE V Series migration in GigaVUE-FM and in a GigaVUE-FM HA arrangement:
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GigaVUE V Series Migration GigaVUE V Series Migration Guide |
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GCB Packet Reordering You can now use the packet reordering feature in your GCB solution to improve tool effectiveness. GCB waits for the pending packets from the requests and reorders the received packets to complete the transactions. |
Gigamon Containerized Broker Gigamon Containerized Broker Guide |
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Export Application Metadata Intelligence output in JSON format You can now use the Observability Gateway (OGW) application to export AMI output in JSON format. The OGW application converts the output from Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) which is in CEF format into JSON format and sends it to cloud tools. |
Fabric Management Application Intelligence—Observability Gateway Application GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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E-Tag Based Clustering Enhancements The below enhancements have been introduced in E-Tag based clustering such as:
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Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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GigaVUE FM Core |
Export Data to External Data Server GigaVUE-FM allows you to export statistical data from GigaVUE-FM to an external data server for analysis and visualization. The following data is exported from GigaVUE-FM (including the tags associated with the ports and maps) to an external data server:
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Fabric Management Export Data to External Data Server GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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GigaStream Imbalance Notification With the GigaStream imbalance notification functionality, the port statistics of the member ports in a GigaStream are validated to determine if traffic distribution across the ports is within the allowed threshold limit based on a threshold value configured. If traffic distribution is not within the allowed variance limit, the GigaVUE HC series and TA series devices generate SNMP traps that are sent to GigaVUE-FM based on which GigaStream imbalance alarms are triggered. SNMP traps are generated in the devices based on the following conditions:
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Fabric Management GigaStream Imbalance Notification GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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Fabric Health Analytics - Map Traffic Statistics The Fabric Health Analytics feature in GigaVUE‑FM is enhanced with the new Map Traffic Statistics dashboard that displays statistics about traffic that has passed/dropped through the fabric to the destination(s).
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Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Topology Visualization The Topology page in GigaVUE-FM UI is enhanced as follows:
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Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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IP Resolver (Supporting Multiple Dynamic NIC) The IP Resolver page now allows you configure DNS server for more than one interface. This page has the following tabs:
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Fabric Management GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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GigaSMART |
Supported Applications on Gen3 HC3 In SMT-HC3- C08 cards, the following GigaSMART applications are supported:
Supported Applications on Gen3 HC1 In SMT-HC1- S cards, the following GigaSMART applications are supported:
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Vport Chaining within the same GigaSMART Group The transit-level maps support Application Filtering Intelligence (AFI) and Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) GigaSMART operations in SMT-HC0-Q02X08 of HC2P, SMT-HC3-C05 of HC3v2, HC1-X12G4 of HC1 with native, SMT-HC3-C08, and SMT-HC1-S cards. |
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GigaSMART GTP Rotational Sampling GTP Rotational Sampling samples GTP sessions by IMSI number, using a rotating or sliding IMSI range, that rotates automatically on a configurable interval, without disrupting the treatment of existing sessions. It rotates through the entire pool of subscribers over time, such that all subscribers can be sampled in over time
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New GigaVUE-HC1-PLUS The GigaVUE-HC1- PLUS is the latest member of the GigaVUE HC Series. It has a fixed module that supports ports of 4 x 100G/40 G, 8x25G, 10G, and 1G connectivity in a 1RU form factor. It supports Flex-inline in unprotected ports with 100G/40G/10G/25G/10G/ speed. PRT-HC1-Q04, SMT-HC1-S, BPS-HC1-D25A60 and BPS-HC1-D35C60 modules are supported in GigaVUE-HC1-PLUS chassis. Note: Only Legacy PRT-HC1-Q04X08 and SMT-HC1-S modules are supported on GigaVUE-HC1-PLUS. The following features will not be supported with this release on GigaVUE-HC1-PLUS:
Refer to GigaVUE-OS Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix to view supported optics. |
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New QSB 522 Transciever 100G/40G Dual Rate BiDi Transceiver Optic SKU QSB-522 is now supported. |
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New Guides The following three new guides are released:
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GigaVUE 5.16.00 Software offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the new capabilities described below.
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Proper handling of multiple AWS accounts in single deployment You can now monitor multiple AWS accounts or VPCs in a GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS monitoring domain. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS–GigaVUE V Series 2 Guide |
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Proper handling of multiple Azure subscriptions in single deployment You can now monitor multiple Azure subscriptions or tenants in a GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure monitoring domain. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure–GigaVUE V Series 2 Guide |
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OpenStack OVS Mirroring support for VLAN Trunk Port You can now use both access port and VLAN trunk port for the Open vSwitch (OVS) Mirroring on GigaVUE Cloud Suite for OpenStack. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for OpenStack GigaVUE Cloud Suite for OpenStack–GigaVUE V Series 2 Guide |
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GCB Transaction Logging You can now choose to create GCB transaction log files to determine the failed transactions. For each HTTPS POST message from Pcapper to GCB, the GCB creates a transaction record. The transaction record is logged to a transaction log file in the GCB pod or to the Kubernetes logging stdout stream. |
Gigamon Containerized Broker Gigamon Containerized Broker Guide |
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Cloud Health Monitoring GigaVUE-FM allows you to monitor the configuration health status of the entire monitoring session and also the individual fabric components for which monitoring session is configured. This feature provides detailed information about the configuration and deployment status of the deployed monitoring session. |
Fabric Management Cloud Health Monitoring - Configuration Health Monitoring GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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GigaVUE-FM HA on VMware NSX-T GigaVUE-FM HA can be deployed in VMware ESXi and managed in VMware NSX-T Manager to provide uninterrupted services to the customers. You must configure external IP address while forming the HA cluster. |
Fabric Management Configure GigaVUE‑FM High Availability in VMware NSX-T Manager GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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GigaVUE‑FM as image server for VMware NSX-T You can now upload your V Series Node image files into GigaVUE‑FM. Instead of using an external server to upload your image files you can now directly upload your OVA files into GigaVUE‑FM. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite Upload GigaVUE V Series Node Image into GigaVUE-FM GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guide |
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Flexible Inline Arrangement is now supported in GigaVUE-TA25 Flexible Inline arrangement functionality is now supported in GigaVUE-TA25. Due to the absence of BPS module and GigaSMART card Physical Bypass and Inline SSL functionality will not be supported. The Inline Bypass Solution (Classic) is not supported in GigaVUE-TA25. |
GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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E-Tag Based Clustering Clustering can now be configured based on E-Tags on GigaVUE-HC Series and GigaVUE-TA Series. You can select E-Tag based stacking mode to enable this feature. |
GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Configure PCAP from GigaVUE-FM You can now configure Packet Capture (PCAP) from GigaVUE-FM. The port type used for packet capture can be tool, network, hybrid, inline or inline network. Packet capture functionality is now extended for the following:
Packet Capture configuration is available from the Ports page. Refer to the GigaVUE-FM User's Guide for details. |
Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Delta Reports GigaVUE-FM provides support for generating delta reports for Flow Filtering reports. Delta reports display statistical data for a specific time interval from the current time. Use delta reports to troubleshoot the flow filtering behavior across two different timestamps. |
Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Enhancements to Alarms Page - Alarm Drill down Few of the alarms listed in the alarms page are now configured with hyperlinks to the source that triggered the alarm thus providing a quick view of the alarm resource and the reason for failure. The source-ID field of the following alarm types are configured as hyperlinks which when clicked opens the quick view of the resource or navigates to the respective resource pages:
The following new alarms are generated in GigaVUE‑FM when the device is unreachable or when the report is not generated:
The child alarm Health Indeterminable is triggered along with the parent alarms and will be listed as a correlated alarm. |
Fabric Management GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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Fabric Health Analytics The Fabric Health Analytics feature in GigaVUE‑FM is enhanced with new dashboards and reports.
Fabric Asset Inventory: Displays inventory details of the devices managed by GigaVUE-FM and consists of the following data tables:
Fabric Health Dashboard now consists of two separate dashboards that display both metric and gauge visualizations.
The new Fabric Asset Inventory Report is added to the existing Reports list. Click on each of the items in the Report to navigate to the Discover page and to download the data tables in CSV format. |
Fabric Management GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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FIPS 140-2 Compliance in GigaVUE-FM GigaVUE-FM is now compliant with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), a US government standard for security requirements of cryptographic modules. You can enable FIPS from the Preferences page in GigaVUE-FM. Once enabled, you cannot disable it. You can also create a FIPS enabled HA group. Refer to the GigaVUE Administration Guide for details |
Fabric Management FIPS 140-2 Compliance in GigaVUE-FM GigaVUE Administration Guide |
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Allow for disable of AMI CEF multi-collect This feature enables the multi-collect of attributes within a given Metadata Store cache which means that if a configured attributes is seen in multiple packets within the same flow, each of these information is collected. By default, when a new cache is created, multi-collect is enabled. When upgraded from an older release, the multi-collect option is enabled. |
Fabric Management Guide Create Metadata Intelligence by Editing Monitoring Session from Dashboard |
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Advance-hash in Application Metadata Intelligence This feature configures metadata cache advance-hash for encapsulated flows . This feature improves the efficiency of scheduling the distribution of encapsulated flows. It also improves the distribution of flows in service provider deployment cases. By default, when a new cache is created, advance hash is enabled. When upgraded from an older release, the advance hash is enabled. |
Fabric Management Guide Create Metadata Intelligence by Editing Monitoring Session from Dashboard |
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AMI TEID Export on HC3 Gen3 In SMT-HC3-C08 cards, GigaSMART Application Metadata Intelligence supports the following packet attributes:
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Supported Applications on Gen3 HC3 In SMT-HC3- C08 cards, the following GigaSMART applications are supported:
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Vport Chaining within the same GigaSMART Group The transit-level maps supports multiple GigaSMART operations in SMT-HC0-Q02X08 of HC2P, SMT-HC3-C05 of HC3v2, HC1-X12G4 of HC1 with native, SMT-HC3-C08, and SMT-HC1-S cards.
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GTP JSON GTP Correlation engine can export records for each subscriber session. It only requires the GTP-C data to be input into the engine, and exports data in a streaming JSON format. This includes data such as subscriber ID, device ID, cell ID, session setup timestamp, and more. This data is used by metadata-ingestion tools.
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Documentation |
GigaVUE-FM Hardware Appliance Guide for GFM-HW1-FM010 and GFM-HW1-FM001-HW This guide includes implementation information needed to get started with the GigaVUE-FM Hardware Appliance optimized module (GFM-HW1-FM001-HW) as a new, upgrading, or migrating customer.
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GigaVUE-FM Hardware Appliance Guide for GFM-HW1-FM010 and GFM-HW1-FM001-HW |
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GigaVUE TA Series Hardware Installation Guide The GigaVUE TA Series Hardware Installation Guide is broken down and divided into the following guides:
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GigaVUE 5.15.00 Software offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the new capabilities described below.
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Support for V Series Node deployment using VMware NSX-T Manager You can now deploy V Series Nodes through VMware NSX-T Manager. The deployed V Series Node can be monitored from GigaVUE-FM for traffic acquisition, processing and forwarding. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware Create Monitoring Domain for VMware NSX-T GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guide |
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Supported GigaSMART operations on Microsoft Azure GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure support the following GigaSMART Application Intelligence operations.
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Supported GigaSMART features on the 400G Link Traffic Aggregator The GigaVUE-TA400 product consists of a 1RU, rack-mountable, 32 x 400G QSFP-DD/QSFP28/QSFP+ ports, dual hot-pluggable AC/DC power supplies, seven hot swappable fan modules, a serial console port, and a 10M/100M/1G management port. The following features are supported in 5.15 release such as :
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GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide
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Flow Ops Report Page Display Enhancement The GigaSMART Report page now displays the report type, GigaSMART Group and the Pattern selected for generating the FlowOps report in the header pane with the time stamp of when the report was generated. |
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Flow Filtering Reports Usability Enhancement GigaSMART Flow Filtering reports can now be generated as a single page. The links provided at the top of the report allows you to instantly navigate to the various sections in the report, thus eliminating excessive scrolling. The export button allows you to export the report in excel format with data captured in separate sheets for the different sections of the report. |
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API: /elasticUtils API The /elasticUtils API URL is now public and is available in the GigaVUE-FM swagger. |
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GigaVUE-FM Hardware Appliance Guide for GFM-HW1-FM010
This guide includes implementation information needed to get started with the GigaVUE-FM Hardware Appliance as a new, upgrading, or migrating customer. |
GigaVUE-FM Hardware Appliance Guide for GFM-HW1-FM010 |
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Command Line Summary This document summarizes the commands available in the command-line interface for the GigaVUE HC Series nodes. Commands are listed in alphabetical order with a summary of their syntax. |
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GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS The GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS Quick Start Guide is deprecated, and its contents are merged into the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS Guide which is restructured and divided into the following two guides:
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GigaVUE 5.14.00 Software offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the new capabilities described below.
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Customer Orchestration of Traffic Acquisition for Azure You can now configure GigaVUE Cloud Suite components like G-vTAP Controllers, G-vTAP Agents, and V Series Nodes through an external orchestrator like Azure Portal. The deployed fabric components can be monitored from GigaVUE-FM for traffic acquisition, processing and forwarding. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure Configure GigaVUE Fabric Components in Azure GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure Guide |
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GCB Log Level Settings With the GCB Log Level Setting, you can change the log level, modify the GCB log file size, and add miscellaneous log configuration messages for better logging and troubleshooting. |
Gigamon Containerized Broker View GCB Specifications in GigaVUE-FM Gigamon Containerized Broker Guide |
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Geneve decapsulation for AWS You can now choose the Geneve application from the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS Monitoring Session canvas to acquire and strip Geneve headers. To route the traffic through the third-party network appliances seamlessly, the AWS gateway load balancer adds Geneve header to packets as they enter the VPC and strip these headers as the traffic leaves the VPC back into the servers. The third-party network appliances are expected to process traffic with these Geneve headers. When the GigaVUE-FM acquires the customer traffic, the packets are encapsulated in tunnels that are terminated in V Series nodes. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS Add Applications to Monitoring Session GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS Guide |
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Cloud AMI/AFI Enhancements You can now deploy multiple GigaVUE V Series nodes in a solution and use V Series Node API Proxy Server (VPS) to scale and manage multiple V Series nodes. |
Resources for Configuring Solutions on GigaVUE V Series Nodes GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Red Hat certification of GCB on OpenShift The GCB images are now "Red Hat Certified" for Red Hat OpenShift platform. |
Configure GCB for Service Mesh and HTTPS/2 Support with Metadata Gigamon Containerized Broker Guide |
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Supports AWS Outposts GigaVUE-FM now supports AWS Outposts. AWS Outposts is an on-premises extension of the AWS infrastructure, which allows you to make direct calls direct to AWS services (e.g., S3, EC2) from this solution. |
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Flexible Inline Arrangement is now supported in GigaVUE-TA200 Flexible Inline arrangement functionality is now supported in GigaVUE-TA200. Due to the absence of BPS module and GigaSMART card Physical Bypass and Inline SSL functionality will not be supported. The Inline Bypass Solution(Classic)incompatibility remains same in GigaVUE-TA200.
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Support Flexible Inline for Clustered GigaVUE HC Series Nodes The GigaVUE HC Series nodes that can be now clustered with Flexible Inline solution for the following Flexible Inline features: Resilient Inline Arrangement Network Link Aggregation Group (LAG) Asymmetrical Hashing |
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Single Tag vs Double Tag VLAN mode for GigaVUE-TA25 GigaVUE-TA25 can now configure the VLAN tag mode to be single tag or double tag at the chassis level. Single tagged mode will be the preferred mode of operation when the deployment environment needs the visibility of just untagged and single-tagged packets.
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Fabric Health Analytics enhancements: New system dashboards and corresponding visualizations have been added:
Ability to navigate from FHA Alarms and Events dashboards to GigaVUE-FM Alarms and Events pages (with filters applied). |
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Fabric Health Analytics for Cloud enhancements: New system dashboards and corresponding visualizations have been added:
Enhancement to existing dashboards with the addition of Aggregate Summary panel
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GigaVUE‑FM Virtual Inventory Statistics and Cloud Applications Dashboard Dashboards for Volume-based Licenses Usage GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide |
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Dynamic Increase in GigaVUE-FM HA Instances Until software version 5.13.00, GigaVUE-FM High Availability group was restricted to one active GigaVUE-FM instance and two standby GigaVUE-FM instances providing a scaled and resilient environment. As GigaVUE-FM is scaled up to manage many number of devices, higher computing and memory resources are required for the following reasons:
Therefore, the number of Elastic Search instances has to be increased in the HA group for scalable performance of the various features in GigaVUE-FM. GigaVUE-FM now allows you to add more than three GigaVUE-FM instances to the HA group. You can add any number of instances to the HA group as required. |
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Alarm Suppression GigaVUE- FM allows you to suppress alarms that are raised during maintenance operation of a specific resource, cluster or node. You can suppress an alarm or alarms for a specific period or indefinitely by:
You can also configure auto-suppression of alarms for certain GigaVUE-FM triggered operations on device such as Configuration Restore, Device Reboot, Image Upgrade on a cluster or node., and Cluster Creation Operations. |
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Support SNMP Traps for GigaVUE-FM Alerts GigaVUE-FM sends SNMP v2c/v3 Trap notification for the GigaVUE-FM events such as Image Upgrade Status, Backup operation Status, etc., to the configured SNMP trap receivers. |
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Optimized Elephant Flow processing for AFI Application Filtering Intelligence detects and handles the elephant flows in the traffic. The feature is supported on the following GigaSMART modules:
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Supported Applications on Gen3 HC3 GigaSMART The following GigaSMART applications are supported on the new SMT-HC3- C08 module:
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New Gen3 HC3 GigaSMART Module The SMT-HC3-C08 module is the 3rd generation GigaVUE-HC3 GigaSMART module. This module is compatible only with Control Card version 2 (CCv2) and has two GigaSMART engines which have increased performance over the SMT-HC3-C05 module |
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New 400G Link Traffic Aggregator The GigaVUE-TA400 product consists of a 1RU, rack-mountable, 32 x 400G QSFP-DD/QSFP28/QSFP+ ports, dual hot-pluggable AC/DC power supplies, seven hot swappable fan modules, a serial console port, and a 10M/100M/1G management port. The following features are not supported in 5.14 release such as :
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Inclusive Language Initiative Gigamon is adopting inclusive language standards and is in the process of updating all of our content to remove exclusionary language wherever it exists, whether that be in Gigamon products and documentation, public-facing marketing materials, or internal communications. As we make these changes, we will announce updates to our terminology in our release notes and product documentation. For more information, refer to Inclusive Language Initiative. |
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Inline Bypass Solution (Classic) The Inline Bypass Solution (Classic) feature documentation will now be available only in earlier documents. Refer to Inline Bypass Solutions in GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide v5.13 or earlier. |
GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide v5.13 |
GigaVUE 5.13 Software offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the new capabilities described below.
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V Series 2 on Azure This feature is replacing the existing V Series 1 node with V Series 2 node environments with optional V Series Proxy for better efficiency and accessibility on Azure platforms. With the V Series 2 based solution, you can create ingress tunnels, use public IP address types, and use all the V Series 2 supported GigaSMART applications in Monitoring Sessions. |
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OVS Mirroring for V Series 2 on OpenStack Now you can only select OVS Mirroring as your Traffic Acquisition Method for both OVS Mirroring and OVS Mirroring + DPDK. GigaVUE-FM can now auto detect and select the OVS Mirroring type required. |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for OpenStack:
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Service Identification on GCB In the Service mesh and HTTPS/2 supported platform, the Pcapper sends HTTPS/2 requests to GCB. On receiving the HTTPS/2 request from Pcapper, GCB applies the rules configured in GigaVUE-FM and forwards the filtered traffic to Tools or V Series 2 Nodes through L2GRE or VXLAN tunnels. These IP addresses of the Pcapper HTTPS/2 packets are temporary and the services running in multiple Kubernetes clusters can have same IP address. To correlate these ephemeral and same IP addresses, the GigaVUE-FM maps these ephemeral IP addresses with the corresponding source and destination CSV mapping files received from the Service Mesh and HTTPS/2 Supported platform and converts them to the external IPv6 addresses. |
Gigamon Containerized Broker for Service Mesh and HTTPS/2 Support with Metadata:
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Dashboards for Cloud Statistics and Volume Based Licensing This enhancement introduces the following dashboards and the associated visualizations:
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Cloud Enhancements |
Supported GigaSMART operations on AWS, OpenStack and VMware GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS and GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware support the following GigaSMART Application Intelligence operations in GigaVUE-FM version 5.13.00:
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Embedded | Enhanced Security
SHA1 support has been removed in 5.13.xx to improve security. Refer to Addendum in the Release Notes v5.13.xx for details. |
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GigaVUE-FM Core |
Fabric Health Analytics BETA With Fabric Health Analytics, you can view the operational and health status of the various physical and virtual resources through the dashboards and visualizations. With this functionality you can:
The following new dashboards have been introduced:
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Topology Visualization Beta The Topology Visualization Beta page allows you to create tagged layout topology. For smaller deployments, GigaVUE-FM creates Smart Layout Topology.This feature is enhanced as follows:
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Bulk Tagging GigaVUE‑FM allows you to instantaneously,
Use the Import and Export Tags as Resources options in the Tags page to upload a CSV file containing the required fields. |
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Email Notifications The Email Notifications functionality is enhanced such that:
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GigaVUE-FM UI Reorg The GigaVUE‑FM GUI is enhanced as follows:
Note: Save Config option is removed from the top navigation bar and moved under the Chassis option
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Rule-level Tagging You can now associate tags to map rules. Each rule within a map can be associated with different tags Ids and tag values. This is applicable for both flow maps and fabric maps. The Map Statistics dashboard includes visualizations that allows you to view the statistics of the flow of traffic at the rule level. |
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GigaVUE‑FM Scale Enhancements Provides a reliable and stable environment for managing a large number of physical devices (up to 3000 devices) without any impact to the performance. The following changes are included as part of this release:
Note: Support for VIP in GigaVUE‑FM High Availability cluster is deprecated from software version 5.13.00. If there is VIP configured in GigaVUE‑FM < release 5.13.00, it will be continued after the upgrade. You will only be able to delete the existing VIP from software version 5.13. You cannot add or update the VIP.
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GigaVUE-FMEnhancements |
The GigaVUE-FM GUI is enhanced as follows:
These event-related updates will automatically get reflected in the respective pages. You can also use the Refresh button to view the Near-Real Time updates. |
Fabric Management and Administration:
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GigaSMART mobility session and flow filtering dashboards display flow filtering summary reports and statistics pertaining to the mobility solutions on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly interval. |
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GigaVUE-OS |
Passive SSL Decryption with HSM Support on SMT-HC1-S (Early Access) The Generation 3 GigaSMART card (SMT-HC1-S), now supports Entrust nShield Hardware Security Module(HSM) integrated with Passive SSL decryption. Note: Early Access is a pre-GA feature status indicating it is not recommended for production networks. The functionality has been tested. Little to no system testing has been performed, however, and performance/scale data is not yet available. Preliminary documentation is available.
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MAC Address Rewrite A user can now control or modify the Destination MAC and source MAC address of incoming traffic packets and deliver it to the tools according to the flow mapping configurations. |
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Support Flexible Inline for Clustered GigaVUE HC Series Nodes The GigaVUE HC Series nodes can now be clustered with Flexible Inline solution for the configuration path. The traffic path is limited to a single node such that all inline network and tool ports should reside in the same node. The Flexible Inline features that can be configured are as follows:
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Flexibility to Configure the PTP VLAN Range The PTP VLAN ID range has been increased to 2-4000. Hover on the help icon to identify the available VLAN ID resouce. |
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Documentation |
The GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware Guide is now split into two separate guides:
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Inclusive Language Initiative Gigamon is adopting inclusive language standards and is in the process of updating all of our content to remove exclusionary language wherever it exists, whether that be in Gigamon products and documentation, public-facing marketing materials, or internal communications. As we make these changes, we will announce updates to our terminology in our release notes and product documentation. For more information, refer to Inclusive Language Initiative. |
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GigaVUE 5.12 Software offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the new capabilities described below.
New in 5.12 Documentation
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GigaVUE Software v5.11.00 offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the following new capabilities.
New in 5.11 Documentation
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Table 1: New feature reference table v5.11.00
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GigaVUE Software v5.10.01 is the initial GA release of 5.10.xx. This release offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the following new capabilities.
Prior to this release, GigaVUE-OS v5.10.00 was released as embed software on new hardware platforms, exclusively. For more about 5.10.00, see GigaVUE-OS on DELL S4112F-ON.
Table 2: New feature reference table v5.10.01
Area |
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Threat Detection |
SMT-HC1-S (GigaVUE-HC1 Gen 3 module with ThreatINSIGHT Sensor support) GigaVUE-HC1 supports a Generation 3 GigaSMART card (SMT-HC1-S), which gives 80Gb throughput and can be used to provide the ThreatINSIGHT solution for security detection. |
Hardware: |
GigaVUE-HC1 Hardware Installation Guide |
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Gigamon ThreatINSIGHT Sensor Gigamon ThreatINSIGHT is a SaaS-based network security monitoring platform built with the ability to detect, respond, and investigate network-based threats. You can also deploy Gigamon ThreatINSIGHT Sensor on the GigaVUE-HC1 SMT-HC1-S module using GigaVUE-FM. It provides single, integrated security solution for threat-detection. |
Fabric Management: Fabric Management: |
GigaVUE-FM User’s Guide |
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Fabric Maps |
Fabric Port Group Extends GigaSMART load balancing functionality to fabric maps using circuit ids and circuit tunnels, thus allowing load balancing between tool ports that reside on different clusters. |
Fabric Management: Fabric Port Group |
GigaVUE-FM User’s Guide |
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Flexible Inline Arrangement |
Resilient Inline Arrangement with Single VLAN Tag Deploy resilient inline arrangement with a single VLAN tag in which, a packet received from an inline network is guided to the inline tool using a single VLAN tag, which is configurable when creating a flexible inline map. |
Fabric Management: Configure Resilient Inline Arrangement |
GigaVUE-FM User’s Guide |
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GigaVUE-OS |
Microburst Enhancements The Microburst performance in GigaVUE-OS devices have been improved such that devices have some amount of buffer to queue these packets. |
Fabric Management: Microburst |
GigaVUE-FM User’s Guide |
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High and Low Utilization for GigaSMART Engine Ports GigaSMART engine ports now use high and low utilization threshold percentage. The utilization alarms will be forwarded to SNMP management stations configured as notification destinations. |
Fabric Management: Set Port Utilization Thresholds CLI Reference: portsnmp-server |
GigaVUE-FM User’s Guide GigaVUE-OS CLI Reference Guide |
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Port Filter Statistics Enhancements View the port filter counters based on the filter rules configured for the port. |
Fabric Management: Port Filters CLI Reference: port |
GigaVUE-FM User’s Guide GigaVUE-OS CLI Reference Guide |
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New Active Visibility Conditions and Actions for Inline Tool Groups You can now configure Active Visibility policies using conditions and actions that are newly added for inline tool group and flexible inline maps. |
Fabric Management: Configure Active Visibility CLI Reference: policy |
GigaVUE-FM User’s Guide GigaVUE-OS CLI Reference Guide |
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Intent-Based Orchestration |
Intent Based Orchestration Enhancements:
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Fabric Management: Orchestrated Configurations |
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Mobility |
GigaSMART TCP Enhancements In 5G traffic, the GigaSMART TCP load balancing is performed based on the following correlations:
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GigaSMART 5QI Correlation In 5G traffic, 5QI values present in the control traffic and its associated QoS Flow Identifiers (QFI) value are correlated and the data traffic is sent to the tools. |
Fabric Management: GigaSMART 5QI |
GigaVUE-FM User’s Guide |
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Enhanced Application Session Filtering (ASF) Enhanced Application Session Filtering allows to filter a specific application field from the incoming traffic. Enhanced Application Session Filtering supports the following session capabilities:
Netflow Cacheless export using TCP NetFlow monitor enables you to set the cache timeout to zero and makes the NetFlow to operate in a cacheless mode. Each packet received by the NetFlow is treated as a complete flow and the metadata extracted from the packet are immediately exported without caching the flow. In cacheless mode, the metadata are direclty sent to the export buffer as they are not copied to the cache, thereby providing more record space. |
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GigaSMART Standalone User Plane Node Traffic Monitoring In Standalone User Processing Node (UPN) traffic monitoring, the UPN processes the subscriber information that is extracted from the Packet Forwarding Control Protocol (PFCP) packets and correlates with the GTP-u traffic without the CPN. |
Fabric Management: Stand-Alone User Plane Node Traffic Monitoring |
GigaVUE-FM User’s Guide |
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GigaSMART 5G Network Slice Correlation Network Slicing is a feature of 5G networks whereby slices of network resources are dedicated to a specific application. Gigamon enables customers to have differentiated levels of visibility for each network slice. |
Fabric Management: 5G Network Slice Correlation |
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GigaSMART RAN Correlation This feature enables the support for RAN based correlation for both 4G CUPS and 5G CUPS solutions. The monitoring of core traffic is based upon the RAN source. It exposes RAN data fields from control plane. RAN data fields are available for filtering and whitelisting. |
Fabric Management: 5G RAN Correlation |
GigaVUE-FM User’s Guide |
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Enhancements to 5G CUPS Configuration using Ansible The Gigamon Ansible Module exposes playbooks that allows the configuration and maintenance of the CUPS solution, and the GigaVUE-FM GUI allows you to visualize, monitor and troubleshoot the CUPS solution. |
Fabric Management: Configuration of CUPS using Ansible. |
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FM Core |
Information Architecture and GUI Reorganization Improved and modernized user experience. Ease of accessibility of the physical and virtual nodes and the solutions. |
Fabric Management: |
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Alarms for Inline Networks and GigaSMART Operations Alarms to track the changes in the health status of the inline network configurations and the GigaSMART Operations.
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Administration
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GigaVUE-Administration Guide |
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GigaVUE-FM Scale Enhancements Provides a reliable and stable environment for managing large number of physical devices without any impact to the performance. Includes the following changes:
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Fabric Management:
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Security |
Protocol Signature Enhancements Upgrade the protocol signature by upgrading the image file on the card, and by uploading the GigaSMART card image to GigaVUE-FM from the Internal Server or External Server. |
Fabric Management: |
GigaVUE-FM User’s Guide |
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Software Licensing |
Volume based licensing for V Series on VMware Volume-Based License (VBL) is introduced to support V Series for VMware virtual device environments. In this model, instead of being assigned to a specific physical chassis or GigaSMART card, your license is based on the volume of data usage across many virtual devices gathered per available statistics collected in GigaVUE FM. Note: If you are using Volume Based Licensing, please make sure that smtp.gmail.com access on port 25 of the GigaVUE-FM host machine is not blocked by firewall ACL (Access Control List) rules or a proxy server. If it is blocked, it will prevent GigaVUE-FM from sending the mandatory emails regarding volume usage to Gigamon at the end of each collection period (normally 3 months). |
GigaVUE Cloud Suites: |
GigaVUE Cloud Suite Guides for AWS , OpenStack, and GCB |
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GigaSMART Security |
RFS Configuration to Manage Encrypted Keys Use Remote File System (RFS), a component in HSM to store and manage encrypted keys |
Fabric Management: Entrust nShield HSM for SSL Decryption for Out-of-Band Tools CLI Reference : |
GigaVUE-FM User’s Guide GigaVUE-OS CLI Reference Guide |
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Split DNS Profile Configuration for GigaSMART Engine Port Configure separate DNS servers for internal and external networks to ensure better security and privacy management |
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Cloud |
Network visibility with V Series nodes on VMware ESXi and NSX‑T This feature is replacing the existing GVMs with V Series 2 fabric node for better efficiency and accessibility on VMware environments. With the V Series based solution, users can create Monitoring Session instead of configuring vMaps and use Automatic Target Selection instead of manual vNIC selection in VMware ESXi and NSX-T. |
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Gigamon Containerized Broker GCB Gigamon Containerized Broker (GCB) is a containerized packet broker component of Gigamon. GCB provides the network broker features in a containerized form for the customers who are running their workloads in containers. GCB can perform traffic acquisition, aggregation, basic filtering, replication, and tunneling with encryption support. |
Gigamon Containerized Broker Configuration Guide |
GigaVUE-OS 5.10.00 offers usability improvements, resolved issues, and the following new capabilities.
Table 3: New feature reference table v5.10.00
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GigaVUE-OS on DELL S4112F-ON |
GigaVUE-OS on DELL S4112F-ON Installation Guide |
HD-57727 |
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Hardware |
GigaVUE-TA25 |
GigaVUE-TA Series Hardware Installation Guide |
HD-56397 |
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GTAP-A SF21 |
GigaVUE-OS CLI Reference: battery, battery optimization |
G-TAP A Series 2 Hardware Installation Guide: G-TAP GigaVUE-OS CLI Reference Guide: battery, battery optimization |
HD-58040 |
GigaVUE-OS on DELL S4112F-ON
The GigaVUE-OS is now installable on the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) DELL S4112F-ON power switch. This integration allows the DELL S4112F-ON, with 12 1Gb/10Gb SFP+ and three 40Gb/100Gb QSFP28 ports, to run GigaVUE-OS with its core intelligence visibility node features and functionalities – all in a 1RU half rack-width form factor. Adding the Advanced Feature License enables clustering, tunneling, and header stripping.
(Reference: HD-57727)
Documentation: Refer to
GigaVUE-TA25
The GigaVUE-TA25 is the latest member of the GigaVUE-TA Series. It has 48 ports of 1/10/25Gb and 8 40/100Gb in a 1RU form factor. The Advanced Feature License enables clustering, tunneling, and header stripping.
(Reference: HD-56397)
Documentation: Refer to
G-TAP A Series 2
The G-TAP A Series 2 comprises active network taps that mirror 100% of network traffic, implement the “Always-On” architecture, and have increased density (8 TAPs in 1RU) and improved security (SSH and SNMPv3). This release introduces the following additional products in this series:
G-TAP-ASF21: The G-TAP A-SF2 SFP+ network TAPs run the same GigaVUE-OS as the GigaVUE TA Series and HC Series devices, and can be managed via CLI over SSH or by GigaVUE-FM. Unlike G-TAP A-TX2, the G-TAP A-SF21 supports SFP/SFP+ ports. |
G-TAP-ATX21-C: The G-TAP A-TX2 copper network TAPs run the same GigaVUE-OS as the GigaVUE TA Series and HC Series devices, and the G-TAP-ATX21 model can be managed via CLI over SSH or by GigaVUE-FM. The G-TAP-ATX21-C model looks and works just like G-TAP-ATX21 except the Ethernet management port is disabled and can only be managed via the console port. |
(Reference: HD-58040)
Documentation: Refer to