Create Monitoring Domain for

This chapter describes how to create a monitoring domain for deploying Nodes in VMware vCenter environment through . You must establish a connection between and VMware vCenter. Creating a monitoring domain in allows you to establish a connection between vCenter and .

To create a monitoring domain in for VMware vCenter,

1. Go to Inventory > VIRTUAL > VMware vCenter (V Series), and select Monitoring Domain. The Monitoring Domain page appears.
2. On the Monitoring Domain page, select New. The VMware Configuration page appears.

3. In the VMware Configuration page, enter or select the following details:

   Field	Description
   Monitoring Domain	Name of the monitoring domain
   Connection Alias	Name of the connection
   Virtual Center	IP address or FQDN of the vCenter
   Username	Username of the vCenter user with minimum privileges as described in the Prerequisites for Integrating V Series Nodes with ESXi section. Whenever you change the vCenter credentials in VMware vCenter, edit the Monitoring Domain to update that in . Otherwise, the connection status reaches an authentication failure state.
   Password	vCenter password used to connect to the vCenter
   Traffic Acquisition Method	Select a Traffic Acquisition Method. Platform Tapping: Platform tapping is performed in two ways. VSS: Used when a workload Virtual Machine is connected to a Virtual Standard Switch network. creates a promiscuous network on the VSS switch for tapping traffic. VDS: Used when a workload Virtual Machine is connected to a Virtual Distributed Switch portgroup. Port Mirroring is created on the VDS switch by  for tapping the traffic Customer Orchestrated Source: If you select Customer Orchestrated Source as the tapping method, you can use a tunnel or raw endpoint where traffic is directly tunneled to Nodes. Select the Traffic Acquisition Method as Customer Orchestrated Source if you want to deploy an AMX application in the Monitoring Session for this Monitoring Domain.
   Resource Allocation This field is applicable only when using Platform Tapping as the Traffic Acquisition Method.	When deploying multiple Node in a single host, select any one of the following options: Target VM Based: Choose this option if your deployment workload VMs attached to less than or equal to 8 vSwtiches on the same ESXi host. This resource allocation type distributes the workload VMs across multiple Nodes on the same ESXi host. Switch Based: A single GigaVUE V Series Node can tap a maximum of 8 vSwitches. Choose this option if you have traffic monitoring VMs running on ESXi hosts connected to more than 8 vSwitches in a single host. The vSwitches are mapped to the Node in a round-robin manner. In this model, vSwitches are evenly distributed across the available Nodes on the same host. Ensure to undeploy all the Monitoring Session associated with the connection before changing the Resource Allocation type.
   Maximum Number of V Series Nodes per Host	Enter the maximum number of GigaVUE V Series Nodes possible to deploy in a single host. The default value is 10.

4. Select Save. The VMware Fabric Launch Configuration page appears. For details on how to deploy Nodes in the VMware Fabric Launch Configuration page, refer to Configure GigaVUE V Series Nodes for VMware ESXi.

The Monitoring Domain created in this section is listed on the Monitoring Domain page.

You can perform the following actions in the Monitoring domain page: