Introduction
Data centers have undergone a tremendous transformation over the last two decades, which resulted in a rise of heterogeneous workloads on physical, virtual, and cloud platforms. With the Introduction of AWS VPC mirroring support for GigaVUE Cloud, enterprises can extend their security posture to AWS by taking advantage of the network traffic visibility solution offered by Gigamon Cloud Suite to configure and acquire mirrored traffic from AWS instances, optimize the traffic and then distribute it to security tools which provide analytics and threat management capabilities needed to proactively prioritize, mitigate and hunt down threats across all sites and cloud VPCs.
NOTE: Please check with your Gigamon Sales contact or Gigamon Support for more information regarding the support for the cloud/virtualization platform that you are considering.
Design Overview
The design depicts the deployment of AWS traffic mirroring on EC2 instances (targets) in the same VPC as fabric components, followed by optimizing the acquired traffic before distributing it to tools using GigaVUE FM for AWS . A typical AWS deployment on a platform utilizes the following components to achieve visibility:
- GigaVUE-FM is the management console to deploy, configure and also troubleshoot the deployment.
- Fabric Images
- GigaVUE-V Series Node is a traffic aggregator for monitored EC2 targets. V Series nodes then forwards the aggregated traffic to a end destination such as H series appliance or custom tool with or without Gigamon apps.
- GigaVUE V Series Controller acts as the control plane proxy to manage the V Series Nodes in the environment.
To learn more about this solution, read complete details on the Gigamon Community: AWS VPC mirroring with GigaVUE Cloud Suite (5.11).
