What's New

Hardware

New GigaVUE-HCT

The GigaVUE-HCT is the latest member of the GigaVUE HC Series. It is a small form factor: 8.4 in. (21.34 cm) wide and 12.5 in (31.8 cm) deep with dual external AC power adapters. It has a single module bay compatible with HC1 modules and 2x40/100Gb ports.

The modules supported in 6.5 are:

The following features will not be supported with this release on GigaVUE-HCT:

Refer to GigaVUE-OS Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix to view supported optics.

Cloud

Changes to the snapshot upgrade procedure for GigaVUE-FM deployed on AWS

Starting from version 6.5, when upgrading the GigaVUE FM deployed on AWS using the snapshot method, instead of adding a new disk and attaching the snapshot, you should now attach the snapshot to volume 2, which is pre-existing during the deployment of GigaVUE FM. Refer to the GigaVUE-FM Installation and Upgrade Guide for more details

Upgrade or update methods for GigaVUE-FM deployed in the public cloud

Starting with version 6.5, GigaVUE-FM deployed in public cloud servers includes new methods for upgrading or updating:

For more information, refer to the GigaVUE-FM Installation and Upgrade Guide.

Virtual Application Metadata, Application Visualization, Application Filtering, NetFlow available in Monitoring Session

You can now configure Application Metadata, Application Visualization, Application Filtering, NetFlow using the Monitoring Session page. You can also combine Application Metadata, Application Visualization, and Application Filtering with other applications in the monitoring session. You can use the old Application Intelligence Session only to view the details. It is recommended to migrate the old Application Intelligence Session to the Monitoring Session.

Support to Configure Name Server and MTU for VMware

You can now configure MTU value for management and tunnel interface and Name Server for the GigaVUE V Series Node deployed in VMware ESXi and VMware NSX-T.

Check for required public cloud permissions

You can check for the IAM permissions that are required to deploy GigaVUE Cloud Suite by clicking the Check Permissions button.

Note: The 6.5 version supports IAM check permissions for the AWS platform only.

Shutdown or Restart of OVS traffic

GigaVUE‑FM allows you to stop or restart the traffic through OVS Mirroring based on the availability of V Series node.

When the V Series node is unreachable or unavailable, mirroring can be stopped automatically or manually until the V Series is reachable or available.

For more information, refer to the GigaVUE Cloud Suite Deployment Guide OpenStack.

Cloud Overview Page in Individual Cloud Platforms

The overview page in Individual cloud platform is a central location to view and monitor all the monitoring sessions in a single place. You can use this overview page to spot issues which will help in troubleshooting, or perform basic actions like view, edit, clone, and delete.

This page provides a quick overview of basic statistics, V Series Alarms, Connection Status and Volume Usage vs Allowance and a table to summarize the active monitoring sessions details.

You can also edit the monitoring session from this page instead of navigating to the monitoring session page in each platform.

For more information refer to the GigaVUE Cloud Suite Deployment Guide of respective cloud platforms.

Supported Kernel Versions in Precryption

Precryption is also supported for the Kernel versions less than 5.4 as given in the following table:

Embedded

GigaVUE-OS iSSL trust store update

From this release, the default iSSL trust stores have been updated automatically.

GigaVUE FM Core

Flexible Inline SSL Single VLAN Tag

This feature provides support for the inline tool that can carry only Single VLAN to be deployed in the flexible Inline SSL arrangement across multiple maps with different Single VLAN tags configured with shared mode enabled.

USGv6r1 Certification for GigaVUE-FM

GigaVUE-FM is now certified for USGv6r1.

GigaSMART

GigaSMART IP FlowVUE Support in HC1 Gen3, HC3 Gen3, and HC1-Plus.

GigaSMART IP FlowVUE provides a representative view of traffic to security and monitoring tools. It allows flow-based filtering and sampling of traffic based on outer/inner IP address for troubleshooting purposes or for resolving challenges such as tools over subscription, optimal utilization of tool licensing etc.

This is now supported in the following devices:

Mobility

Support Custom Interface Selection for Filtering

This feature allows you to provide IP addresses of the network nodes like SGW-C and SGW-U, which will be used for identifying the interface from where the traffic is originating and filtering the traffic based on the interface. A new gsparam is introduced in the CLI, which enables you to choose between the custom interface filtering option and the default 3GPP interface type IE-based filtering and populate an IP address profile.

Mobility License Checks

This feature describes the license requirement for UPN Standalone Single Map type (5G) and GTP.

• GTP_MAX - This license is required for flow sample GigaSMART Operations creation and will be valid for flow sample maps with rule percentage as 0 or 100.

• GTP_Max + FVUE - This license is required for flow sample and whitelist GigaSMART Operations creation and will be valid for flow sample maps with rule percentage between 0 and 100.

• 5GC - This license is required for the UPN Standalone feature.