Architecture for GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware ESXi

This document provides an overview of the GigaVUE V Series Node deployment on the VMware ESXi platforms and describes the procedure for setting up the traffic monitoring sessions using the GigaVUE V Series Nodes. TheGigaVUE V Series Nodes support traffic visibility on the following VMware networking elements:

• vSphere standard switch
• vSphere distributed switch

GigaVUE-FM creates, updates, and deletes the GigaVUE V Series Nodes in the ESXi hosts based on the configuration information provided by the user. The VMs and GigaVUE V Series Nodes are located in the same ESXi host and the traffic mirrored from VMs is sent to GigaVUE V Series Nodes. You can deploy only one GigaVUE V Series Node on a single ESXi host. GigaVUE-FM can communicate directly with the GigaVUE V Series Nodes.

The following diagram provides a high-level overview of the deployment: