Create Monitoring Domain for VMware ESXi

This chapter describes how to create a monitoring domain for deploying V Series node in VMware ESXi hosts. You must establish a connection between GigaVUE-FM and your vCenter environment before you can perform the configuration steps for GigaVUE V Series Node.

To configure VMware vCenter in GigaVUE-FM:

  1. Go to Inventory > VIRTUAL > VMware vCenter (V Series), and then click Monitoring Domain. The Monitoring Domain page appears.
  2. On the Monitoring Domain page, click on the ESXi tab. Then, click New. The VMware Configuration page appears.

  3. In the VMware Configuration page, enter or select the following details:

    Field

    Description
    Monitoring Domain Name of the monitoring domain
    Connection Alias Name of the connection
    Virtual Center IP address or FQDN of the vCenter
    Username Username of the vCenter user with minimum privileges as described in Required VMware Virtual Center Privileges section.
    Password vCenter password used to connect to the vCenter
    Traffic Acquisition Method

    Select a Tapping method.

    Platform Tapping: Platform tapping can be done in two ways.

    • VSS: When a virtual machine is connected to the vSphere Standard Switch, then you can create a Gigamon Port group which in the in promiscuous mode on the virtual switch and tap the traffic to the GigaVUE V Series Nodes.

    • VDS: When a virtual machine is connected to vSphere Distributed Switch, then you can create port mirroring session on the virtual switch and tap the traffic to the GigaVUE V Series Nodes.

    Customer Orchestrated Source: If you use select Customer Orchestrated Source as the tapping method, you can select the tunnel as a source where the traffic is directly tunneled to GigaVUE V Series nodes.

    Note:  When using AMX application select the traffic acquisition Method as Customer Orchestrated Source.
  4. Click Save.

You can use the following buttons in this page to perform the following actions in the Monitoring domain page:

Buttons

Description
Edit Use to edit a monitoring domain.
Deploy Fabric Use to deploy GigaVUE V Series Nodes.
Upgrade Fabric Use to upgrade GigaVUE V Series Nodes. Refer to Upgrade GigaVUE V Series Node in GigaVUE-FM for ESXi for more detailed information on how to upgrade.
Delete Monitoring Domain Use to delete a monitoring domain.
Delete Fabric Nodes Use to delete a GigaVUE V Series Node.
Disconnect Use this button to stop the communication between GigaVUE-FM and VMware vCenter