Prerequisites for Integrating GigaVUE V Series Nodes with vCenter

This section describes the requirements and prerequisites for configuring the vCenter. Refer to the following section for details.

Note:  To support internationalized characters in the VMware vCenter environment ensure that the vCenter character encoding is set to UTF-8.

Network Firewall Requirements for ESXi

Following are the Network Firewall Requirements for GigaVUE V Series Node deployment.

Source Destination Source Port Destination Port Protocol Service Purpose

GigaVUE-FM

ESXi hosts

Any (1024-65535)

443

TCP

https

Allows GigaVUE‑FM to communicate with vCenter and all ESXi hosts to import the V Series OVA files. OVA files require access to the host IP/URL for bulk deployment

vCenter

GigaVUE-FM

GigaVUE V Series Nodes

Any (1024-65535)

8889

TCP

Custom API

Allows GigaVUE‑FM to communicate with GigaVUE V Series Node

GigaVUE-FM

GigaVUE V Series Nodes

Any (1024-65535)

5671

TCP

Custom TCP

Allows GigaVUE-FM to receive the traffic health updates with GigaVUE V Series Node

Administrator

GigaVUE-FM

Any (1024-65535)

443

TCP

https

Management connection to GigaVUE‑FM

22

ssh

Administrator

GigaVUE V Series Nodes

Not Applicable

22

 

ssh

Troubleshooting GigaVUE V Series Nodes.

Remote Source

GigaVUE V Series Nodes

Custom Port(VXLAN and UDPGRE),N/A for GRE

4789

UDP

VXLAN

Allows to UDPGRE Tunnel to communicate and tunnel traffic to GigaVUE V Series Nodes (Applicable for Tunnel Ingress option only)

N/A

IP 47

GRE

4754

UDP

UDPGRE

GigaVUE V Series Nodes

Tool/ GiagVUE HC Series instance

Custom Port(VXLAN),N/A for GRE

4789

UDP

VXLAN

Allows GigaVUE V Series Node to communicate and tunnel traffic to the Tool

Not Applicable

IP 47

GRE

GigaVUE V Series Nodes

Tool/ GigaVUE HC Series instance

Not Applicable

Not Applicable

ICMP

Echo Request

Allows GigaVUE V Series Node to health check tunnel destination traffic (Optional)

Echo Response

GigaVUE V Series Nodes

GigaVUE-FM

Any (1024-65535)

Any (1024-65535)

TCP

Custom TCP

Allows GigaVUE V Series Nodes to communicate the traffic health updates with GigaVUE‑FM

Recommended Instance Types for ESXi

The instance size of the V Series is configured on the OVF file and packaged as part of the OVA image file. The following table lists the available instance types and sizes based on memory and the number of vCPUs for a single V Series node. Instances sizes can be different for V Series nodes in different ESXi hosts and the default size is Small.

Type

Memory

vCPU

Disk space

vNIC

Small

4GB

2 vCPU

8GB

1 Management interface,

1 Tunnel interface, and

8 vTAP interfaces

Medium

8GB

4 vCPU

Large

16GB

8 vCPU

Note: Refer to Support,  Sales, or Professional Services for deployment optimization.

Required VMware Virtual Center Privileges

This section lists the minimum privileges required for the GigaVUE‑FM user in Virtual Center. You assign privileges to Virtual Center users by selecting Administration from the left navigation pane. Then select Roles under the Access Control. Roles should be applied at the vSphere Virtual Center level and not the Data Center or Host levels.

The following table lists the minimum required permissions for GigaVUE‑FM to manage the virtual center user with roles specified above.

Category

Required Privilege

Purpose

Datastore

Allocate space

V Series Node Deployment

Distributed Switch

VSPAN Operation

VDS Tapping

Folder

Create Folder

V Series Node Deployment

Host

Configuration

  • Network Configuration

 

VSS Tapping

Inventory

  • Modify Cluster

Pin V Series Node to the host in cluster configurations. This prevents automatic migration.

Network

  • Assign network
  • Configure
V Series Node Deployment/VSS Tapping
V Series Node Deployment

Resource

Assign virtual machine to resource pool

V Series Node Deployment

vApp

Import
vApp instance configuration
vApp application configuration

V Series Node Deployment

Virtual machine

Configuration

  • Add new disk

  • Add or remove device

  • Modify device settings

  • Rename

V Series Node Deployment

V Series Node Deployment/VSS Tapping

Interaction

  • Connect devices

  • Power on

  • Power Off

  • Reset

 

V Series Node Deployment

Inventory

■   Create from existing
■   Remove

 

V Series Node Deployment

Provisioning

■   Clone virtual machine

 

V Series Node Deployment