Deploying Gigamon Cloud Suite for Nutanix VPC Micro-Segmented Environments using 3rd Party orchestration (6.1)

Introduction

This Gigamon Validated Design (GVD) illustrates deploying Gigamon Cloud Suite in Nutanix platform for the VPC overlay-based workloads and use of Application Intelligence (AppIntel) solution that helps enterprises to not only discover the applications used in their environment, but also to filter and optimize the traffic before forwarding to the security tools. This reduces the need to deploy multiple appliances/solutions. For this deployment, the Gigamon 3rd party orchestration deployment architecture will be used for tapping traffic. With the 6.1 release and introduction of V Series for Nutanix, the tapped traffic could be optimized and transformed using the Application Intelligence feature to feed the Deep Observability tools all across. In addition, all Gigamon implementations will be managed by the same Fabric Manager thus enabling visibility management through a single pane of glass.

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Design Topology

Design Overview

The design topology illustrates the deployment of Gigamon Cloud Suite on Nutanix to tap VMs based on the overlay VPC. With the Gigamon third party orchestration support, the tapped traffic from these VMs will be optimized before forwarding to the respective tools for analyzing the traffic.

The deployment will be done in a VPC NAT'ed scenario where GigaVUE-FM is deployed in the underlay AHV that can communicate with the V Series node deployed within VPC via the V Series proxy. Both the V Series proxy and GvTAP controller would be deployed within the VPC and configured to communicate externally to GigaVUE-FM using a floating IP. V Series node may communicate/report to GigaVUE-FM for stats and application visualization using the external IP of the VPC or a dedicated floating IP.

While this GVD covers the implementation of Application Intelligence using 3rd party orchestration, similar approach could also be used for Core GigaSmart Apps by simply using the Gigamon 3rd party orchestration solution.

It is also possible to deploy the Gigamon solution for the Nutanix underlay to use the native service chain, whose instructions are covered in Deploying Gigamon Cloud Suite for pervasive visibility on Nutanix underlay using native service chaining (6.1) .

 

To learn more about this solution, read complete details on the Gigamon Community: Deploying-Gigamon-Cloud-Suite-for-Nutanix-VPC-micro-segmented-environments-using-3rd-Party-orchestration-6-1