Components of GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure

The GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure consists of the following components:

Component	Description
GigaVUE® Fabric Manager (GigaVUE-FM)	A web-based fabric management interface that provides a single pane of glass visibility and management of both the physical and virtual traffic that forms the GigaVUE Cloud for Azure. GigaVUE-FM manages the configuration of the rest of the components in your cloud platform.
UCT-Vs (earlier known as G-vTAP Agent)	An agent that is installed in your virtual machines. This agent mirrors the selected traffic from the virtual machines to the GigaVUE V Series Node.
UCT-V Controllers (earlier known as G-vTAP Controller)	Manages multiple UCT-Vs and orchestrates the flow of mirrored traffic to GigaVUE V Series nodes. GigaVUE-FM uses one or more UCT-V Controllers to communicate with the UCT-Vs.
Next generation UCT-V (earlier known as Next Generation G-vTAP Agent)	Next generation UCT-V is a lightweight solution that acquires traffic from Virtual Machines and in-turn improves the performance of the UCT-V mirroring capability. The solution has a prefiltering capability at the tap level that reduces the traffic flow from the agent to GigaVUE V Series Node and in-turn reduces the V Series load. Next generation UCT-V gets activated only on Linux systems with a Kernel version above 5.4. Prefiltering allows you to filter the traffic in UCT-Vs before sending it to the GigaVUE V Series Nodes. For prefiltering the traffic, GigaVUE-FM allows you to create a prefiltering policy template and the template can be applied to a monitoring session.
GigaVUE V Series Proxy	The GigaVUE V Series Proxy is a optional component. If GigaVUE-FM cannot directly reach the GigaVUE V Series Nodes (management interface) directly over the network, a Proxy should be used. It can also be used if there is a large number of nodes connected to GigaVUE-FM or if you wish to keep IP addresses of the nodes private. It manages multiple GigaVUE V Series Nodes and orchestrates the flow of traffic from GigaVUE V Series Nodes to the monitoring tools. GigaVUE-FM uses one or more GigaVUE V Series Proxies to communicate with the GigaVUE V Series Nodes. A single GigaVUE V Series Proxy can be launched to provide the GigaVUE-FM network communication to hundreds of GigaVUE V Series Nodes present in private networks behind the Proxy.
GigaVUE V Series Nodes	A visibility node that aggregates mirrored traffic. It applies filters, manipulates the packets using GigaSMART applications, and distributes the optimized traffic to cloud-based tools or backhaul to on premise device or tools. GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure uses the standard VXLAN tunnel to deliver traffic to tool endpoints.

This solution is launched by subscribing to the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure in the Azure Marketplace. Once the GigaVUE‑FM is launched in Azure, the rest of the solution components are launched from GigaVUE‑FM. Refer to Install GigaVUE‑FM on Azure for more detailed information on how to launch GigaVUE‑FM in Azure.

You can only configure the GigaVUE fabric components in a Centralized VNet only. In case of a shared VNet, you must select a VNet as your Centralized VNet for GigaVUE fabric configuration.