Deploy GigaVUE V Series Nodes using VMware NSX-T Manager

You can deploy your GigaVUE V Series Nodes using Manager. The GigaVUE V Series Nodes register themselves with GigaVUE‑FM using the information provided by the user in the NSX-T Manager. When the nodes are registered with GigaVUE‑FM, you can configure Monitoring Session and related services in GigaVUE‑FM.

Refer to the following sections for details:

Getting Started

To register your GigaVUE V Series Nodes using VMware NSX-T Manager,

  1. In GigaVUE-FM, create a Monitoring Domain. For details, refer to Create Monitoring Domain for VMware NSX-T.
  2. In the VMware Configuration page, select No for the Use FM to Launch Fabric field.



    Note:  When creating the Monitoring Domain for deploying GigaVUE V Series Nodes, you can use the VMware NSX-T username and password that has at least "NETX Partner Admin" role assigned to it.

    After creating the Monitoring Domain, use a user account with at least the NETX Partner Admin role assigned when creating the Monitoring Domain. assigns a unique service name to each Monitoring Domain that shares the same NSX-T Manager.

    After creating the Monitoring Domain, use a VMware NSX-T manager user account to deploy your GigaVUE V Series Nodes with at least the NETX Partner Admin role assigned. When creating multiple Monitoring Domain with the same NSX-T Manager, GigaVUE‑FM assigns a unique service name to every domain.

    You can view the service name of each Monitoring Domain in the Monitoring Domain page.

Deploying GigaVUE V Series Nodes in VMware NSX-T Manager

To deploy the GigaVUE V Series Nodes,

  1. In the Service Deployment page of the VMware NSX-T manager, select Deployment.
  2. From the Partner Service drop-down, select the service name corresponding to your Monitoring Domain. For details, refer to Deploy a Partner Service topic in VMware Documentation.
  3. Select Deployment template and Deployment Specification>Configure Attributes.
  4. In the Configure Attributes page, enter the

    • Service VM Host Name

    • Admin user password

    • (Optional) SSL Private Key and the SSL Certificate to use a custom certificate.

    For details, refer to Install Custom Certificate.

After deployment,

  • NSX-T Manager displays the runtime status of node as UP.

  • GigaVUE‑FM updates the node status to Launching. After successful registration, the status changes to OK.

  • The deployed node appears on the Monitoring Domain page in  GigaVUE‑FM.

VMware NSX-T automatically generates the V Series Node name. Do not rename the node in vCenter.

Compatibility and Limitations
  • All GigaVUE V Series Nodes in a Monitoring Domain must run the same version.  GigaVUE‑FM does not support mixed versions.
  • IPv6 is not supported for the gateway of the tunnel interface when deploying nodes through VMware NSX-T Manager.
  • Avoid renaming or manually managing the V Series Node from vCenter to prevent deployment issues.

Delete GigaVUE V Series Nodes and Monitoring Domain

Note:  When you deploy your V Series Nodes using VMware NSX-T manager,   GigaVUE‑FM disables the Delete button for those nodes. You must first remove the Service Deployment in VMware NSX-T Manager.

To delete a GigaVUE V Series Node deployed using VMware NSX-T Manager,

  1. In the VMware NSX-T Manager, delete the Policy and Service Chain.
  2. In GigaVUE-FM. delete the related Monitoring Session
  3. In the VMware NSX-T Manager, delete the V Series node. GigaVUE-FM automatically unregisters it from the Monitoring Domain..
  4. In GigaVUE-FM, delete the Monitoring Domain.