Architecture

The following diagram depicts at a high level various scenarios that GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS helps you to acquire and process traffic from workloads running in your AWS accounts and VPCs.

This architecture diagram illustrates different deployment options for acquiring and processing network traffic using GigaVUE fabric components. Each box represents a distinct deployment model, optimized for specific scenarios:

Acquire Traffic from Container Environment

This segment illustrates how GigaVUE V Series Nodes can be used to process traffic from a container environment.

  1. UCT-C deployed within the Kubernetes environment captures traffic
  2. UCT-C forwards it to the UCT-C Controller for aggregation.
  3. The UCT-C Controller then sends the traffic to GigaVUE V Series Nodes for advanced processing, such as filtering or slicing
  4. The processed traffic is forwarded to the tools.

GigaVUE-FM manages the entire deployment, handling configuration and orchestration, ensuring scalable and efficient traffic monitoring. Control flows manage configuration between components, while traffic flows indicate data capture and processing, enabling efficient and scalable monitoring container environments.

Regardless of how the traffic is acquired from the workload VMs or pods, GigaVUE V Series Nodes help you to process the traffic and efficiently distribute it to the analysis tools.

Acquire Traffic using UCT-V

This segment shows how UCT-V components can be used for traffic monitoring in virtualized environments.

  1. The UCT-V captures traffic from virtual workloads and forwards it to the UCT-V Controller.
  2. The UCT-V Controller aggregates the traffic and sends it to GigaVUE V Series Nodes for processing.
  3. A GigaVUE V Series Proxy can optionally be used for communicating between the GigaVUE-FM and GigaVUE V Series Nodes.
  4. The processed traffic is forwarded to the tools.

GigaVUE-FM manages the entire deployment, handling configuration and orchestration, ensuring scalable and efficient traffic monitoring. Control flows manage configuration between components, while traffic flows indicate data capture and processing, enabling efficient and scalable monitoring container environments.

Acquire Traffic using Traffic Mirroring

The segment explains how the traffic is acquired when your traffic acquisition method is Traffic Mirroring.

  1. The traffic from the workload VMs is acquired using Traffic Mirroring.
  2. The traffic mirroring forwards the traffic to the GigaVUE V Series Nodes. GigaVUE V Series Nodes are deployed centrally within a VPC or region, handling the processing, filtering, and forwarding of traffic acquired from the workload VMs through tunneling protocols like L2GRE, UDPGRE, or VxLAN.
  3. The filtered traffic is then forwarded to monitoring tools for analysis.

With Network Load Balancer

This segment explains how to uniformly distribute the traffic from AWS target VMs to GigaVUE V Series Nodes using a Network Load balancer.

  1. The traffic is acquired from the workloads VMs using Traffic Mirroring or Customer Orchestrated Source and is passed to the Network Load balancer.
  2. The Network load balancer evenly distributes the filtered traffic across GigaVUE V Series Nodes,
  3. The GigaVUE V Series Nodes are deployed in an auto-scaling group to handle variable traffic loads and it processes the traffic.
  4. The processed traffic is forwarded to monitoring tools.

The entire deployment is centrally managed by GigaVUE-FM, ensuring efficient traffic processing, load balancing, and scalability.

With Gateway load Balancer

This segment explains how to uniformly distribute the traffic from AWS target VMs to GigaVUE V Series Nodes using the Gateway Load balancer.

  1. The traffic is acquired from the workloads VMs using Traffic Mirroring or Customer Orchestrated Source
  2. The traffic is passed via the endpoints to the gateway load balancer.
  3. The gateway load balancer evenly distributes the filtered traffic across GigaVUE V Series Nodes, which are deployed in an auto-scaling group to handle variable traffic loads.
  4. The GigaVUE V Series Nodes process the traffic and forward it to monitoring tools.

The entire deployment is centrally managed by GigaVUE-FM, ensuring efficient traffic processing, load balancing, and scalability.