Configure GigaVUE V Series Nodes for VMware ESXi

This section provides step-by-step instructions on how to deploy GigaVUE V Series Nodes in VMware vCenter Monitoring Domain.

To deploy GigaVUE V SeriesNodes using GigaVUE‑FM, follow these steps:

Go to the VMware Fabric Launch Configuration page using one of the following options:
- Automatic Option: Create a monitoring domain, and the page opens automatically.
- Manual Option: Open VMware Fabric Launch Configuration page from the Monitoring Domain page.
  - To launch the VMware Fabric Launch Configuration from the Monitoring Domain, go to Inventory > VIRTUAL > VMware vCenter (V Series).
  - Select Actions > Deploy Fabric.
    The VMware Fabric Launch Configuration page appears.

On the VMware Fabric Launch Configuration page, enter or select the following details:

Field	Description
Datacenter	vCenter Data Center with the ESXi hosts to be provisioned with GigaVUE V Series Nodes.
Cluster	Cluster where you want to deploy the GigaVUE V Series Nodes.
V Series Node Image	Select the OVA file uploaded in the Upload GigaVUE V Series Node Image into GigaVUE‑FM, from the drop-down menu. You can also add OVA files when launching the fabric. To add OVA files: Click on the Add button. The Upload Image dialog box opens. In the Upload Image dialog box, click Browse to select the gigamon-gigavue-vseries-node-x.x.x-0-xxxxxx.ova file. Select Upload to Server to upload the selected OVA image file to GigaVUE‑FM server.
Form Factor	Instance size of the GigaVUE V Series Node. For details, refer to Prerequisites for Integrating V Series Nodes with VMware vCenter. Small Form Factor is not supported when using applications like Application Visualization, Application Metadata, Application Filtering. Select 80GB Disk Space, when using AMX Application.
Enable Custom Certificates	Enable this option to validate the custom certificate during SSL Communication. GigaVUE‑FM validates the Custom certificate with the trust store. If the certificate is unavailable in Trust Store, communication does not happen, and a handshake error occurs. Note: If the certificate expires after the successful deployment of the fabric components, then the fabric components move to failed state.
Certificate Note: This field appears only when Enable Custom Certificates field is enabled.	Select the custom certificate from the drop-down menu. You can also upload the custom certificate for GigaVUE V Series Nodes. For more information, refer to Secure Communication between GigaVUE Fabric Components.
Hosts	Select the ESXi hosts for GigaVUE V Series Node deployment. Note: You can select up to 250 hosts manually. Select Import Host Info from file or Add Host Info Manually. Import Host Info from file: To import host details from a .csv file: Download the .csv template file. Enter the required values in the Excel sheet and save the file. Select Browse and select the .csv file saved in the previous step. To deploy more than one GigaVUE V SeriesNode on the same host, add more rows in the Excel sheet with the same host value for each extra GigaVUE V SeriesNode you want to deploy. If your GigaVUE-FM version is above 6.5 and GigaVUE V Series Nodes are on a version below 6.5, Name Server and MTU are not supported. Therefore, these fields in the .csv file must be empty. Add Host Info Manually: Select the ESXi hosts for GigaVUE V Series Node deployment. The Common Configuration drop-down wizard appears. Expand the Common Configuration drop-down wizard and update the following details to apply the configuration to all the selected hosts. You can expand the individual hosts and add or delete GigaVUE V Series Node. You can expand the individual GigaVUE V Series Node and modify the configurations applied in the Common Configuration.
	Common Configuration
	Datastore	Network datastore shared among all ESXi hosts.
	V Series Node Name Prefix	Enter a prefix for the GigaVUE V SeriesNode name.
	V Series Node Name Suffix	Enter a suffix for the GigaVUE V Series Node name.
	Name Server	The server that stores the mapping between the domain names and the IP addresses. The maximum number of name servers that can be entered is three. Enter valid IPv4 addresses, separated by a comma.
	No. of V Series Nodes per Host	Enter the number of GigaVUE V Series Nodes to be deployed in each host.
	Management
	Network	Management network for GigaVUE V Series Nodes.
	IP Type	Select the management network IP type as Static or DHCP.
	Gateway IP Note: This field appears only when the Management IP type is Static.	Gateway IP address of the Management Network.
	Netmask Length Note: This field appears only when the Management IP type is Static.	Management network's subnet mask value in CIDR format. For example, 21 for /21.
	MTU	The Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) is the maximum size of each packet that can be transferred as a single entity in a network connection. Enter value between 1280 to 9000.
	Data Interfaces - When using Customer Orchestrated Source as the Traffic Acquisition Method, you must configure two data interfaces.
	Use IPv6 Note: This field appears only when Customer Orchestrated Source as the Traffic Acquisition Method.	Enable to use IPv6.
	Network	Tunnel Network for the GigaVUE V Series Nodes.
	IP Type	Select the tunnel network IP address type as Static or DHCP.
	Gateway IP (optional)	Gateway IP address of the Tunnel Network.
	Netmask Length Note: This field appears only when the Tunnel IP type is Static.	Tunnel network's subnet mask value in CIDR format. For example, 21 for /21.
	MTU	The Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) is the maximum size of each packet that can be transferred as a single entity in a network connection. Enter value between 1280 to 9000.
	IPv6 Prefix Length Note: This field appears only when the Use IPv6 toggle button is enabled.	Enter the IPv6 prefix length as 64.
	Virtual Disk Format	Select the Virtual Disk Format from the drop-down menu
	Deployment Folder	Enter the folder name in vCenter, under which the GigaVUE V SeriesNodes must be deployed.
	Password	Enter the password you wish to use for the GigaVUE V Series Node.

Select Deploy. After deployment in vCenter, it appears on the Monitoring Domain page under the Monitoring Domain, where the GigaVUE V Series Node is deployed.

Note: GigaVUE‑FM can process a maximum of ten GigaVUE V Series Nodes deployment requests in parallel on VMware vCenter. Each deployment request can have multiple GigaVUE V Series Nodes for deployment.