Increase or Decrease GigaVUE V Series Nodes using GigaVUE‑FM

You can add more nodes or remove nodes from an existing monitoring domain using GigaVUE‑FM. These steps are applicable only when you deploy GigaVUE V Series Nodes using GigaVUE-FM.

Note:  Increasing or Decreasing the number of nodes in a cluster is only applicable when using Clustered based deployment.

Refer to the following topics for more detailed information on how to add or remove GigaVUE V Series Node deployed using GigaVUE-FM for an existing monitoring domain :

Add V Series Nodes to Existing Monitoring Domain

To increase the number of V Series Node in an existing monitoring domain follow the steps given below:

  1. On the Monitoring domain page, select the monitoring domain to which you wish to add more V Series Nodes.
  2. Click on the Actions button and select Deploy Fabric.
  3. The VMware Fabric Deployment page opens. Enter the details as mentioned in Increase or Decrease GigaVUE V Series Nodes using GigaVUE‑FM 
    • The Deployment type must be Clustered to have multiple deployment on the same cluster.
    • A cluster can have only one Host Based Deployment, however there can be multiple clustered deployment on the same cluster.
  4. Enter the number of V Series Nodes you wish to add in the Deployment Count column.
  5. Click Deploy.

    The newly added V Series Nodes will be displayed under the existing monitoring domain with the new Deployment Name.

Decrease V Series Nodes from Existing Monitoring Domain

To decrease the number of nodes in an existing monitoring domain follow the steps given below:

  1. On the Monitoring domain page, select the Deployment from which you wish to remove the V Series Nodes or select the entire monitoring domain to remove all the deployments from the monitoring domain.

    Note:  You can select the Deployment either by using the check-box on the left side or by clicking on the deployment name

  2. Click on the Actions button and select Delete Deployment.
  3. All the V Series Nodes under that deployment will be deleted.

    The number of V Series Nodes in the monitoring domain will be decreased by the number of nodes in the deployment that were deleted.

Example use-case for Increase or Decrease V Series Nodes using GigaVUE‑FM

This feature can be used in a scenario where you are migrating from GigaVUE-VM visibility solution to GigaVUE V Series visibility solution, you can simply add the V Series node to the existing monitoring domain instead of undeploying and redeploying the monitoring domain every time you wish to add more V Series nodes to the monitoring domain.