Configure GigaVUE V Series Nodes for VMware ESXi

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

After creating a monitoring domain, GigaVUE-FM launches the VMware Fabric Launch Configuration for deploying GigaVUE V Series Node.

To deploy GigaVUE V Series Nodes using GigaVUE-FM, follow the steps given below:

  1. After creating a monitoring domain, you are navigated to the VMware Fabric Launch Configuration page.

  2. You can also 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). Click Actions > Deploy Fabric. The VMware Fabric Launch Configuration page appears.

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

    Field

    Description

    DatacentervCenter 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:

    1. Click on the Add button.
    2. 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.
    3. Click Upload to Server to upload the selected OVA image file to GigaVUE-FM server.
    Form Factor

    Instance size of the GigaVUE V Series Node. Refer Prerequisites for Integrating V Series Nodes with ESXi for more information.

    • 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 not available 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, GigaVUE V Series Proxy, and UCT-V Controllers. For more detailed information, refer to Install Custom Certificate.

    Hosts

    Select the ESXi hosts for GigaVUE V Series Node deployment.

    Select Import Host Info from file or Add Host Info Manually.

    Import Host Info from file:

    To import host details from a .csv file:

    1. Download the .csv template file.
    2. Enter the required values in the Excel sheet and save the file.
    3. Click Browse and select the .csv file saved in the previous step.

    Note:  When using GigaVUE-FM version greater than 6.5 and GigaVUE V Series Nodes with version less than 6.5, Name Server and MTU is 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 also expand the individual hosts and modify the configurations that were 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 Series Node 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 address. The maximum number of name servers that can be entered is three. Enter valid IPv4 address, separated by comma.

    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. Eg. 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. Eg. 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 Series Nodes must be deployed.

    Username

    Enter the default username - gigamon

    Password

    Enter the password you wish to use for the GigaVUE V Series Node.

  4. Click Deploy. After the GigaVUE V Series Node is deployed in vCenter, it appears on the Monitoring Domain page under the Monitoring Domain in which the GigaVUE V Series Node is deployed.

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