Distributed De-duplication

In distributed de-duplication, when you set up a monitoring session with a de-duplication app, the traffic is first sent to a component which distributes the traffic based on a consistent mechanism to ensure that packets from a particular traffic go to the same de-duplication instance. The packets are shared across the GigaVUE V Series Nodes. The distributed de-duplication more efficient that the existing de-duplication.

Note:  From version 6.9, Traffic Distribution option is renamed to Distributed De-duplication.

From version 6.5, distributed de-duplication is supported on Azure, AWS and, GCP. An enhanced configuration profile for the load balancer will be set by default with no option for modification. The default profile will use source and destination IP addresses, source and destination ports as the configuration for calculating the hash value for traffic distribution.

Important:

  1. False traffic health alarms could be raised due to distribution of traffic across GigaVUE V Series Nodes.

  2. Statistics are displayed for all the applications. Distributed De-duplication requires additional entities which will be listed in statistics page.

Limitation

  • When using distributed de-duplication application, if Prefer IPv6 option is enabled when configuring GigaVUE V Series Node using GigaVUE-FM, IPv6 tunnel will be created only between GigaVUE V Series Node and UCT-V and the rest of the tunnels created are IPv4 tunnels. Refer to Configure GigaVUE Fabric Components section in the respective cloud deployment guide for more detailed information on how to deploy GigaVUE V Series Node with IPv6 tunnels.
  • When using distributed de-duplication application, if Enable IPv6 Preference option is enabled when configuring GigaVUE V Series Node using Third Party Orchestration, IPv6 tunnel will be created only between GigaVUE V Series Node and UCT-V and the rest of the tunnels created are IPv4 tunnels. Refer to Create Monitoring Domain for more detailed information on how to create a monitoring domain to register GigaVUE fabric components with IPv6 tunnels.