Deploying GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware vCenter 8 (6.3)

Introduction

The enterprises have heterogenous workloads in their network (physical, virtual, or Cloud containers) with the adoption of Cloud technologies. For any type of workload, security is vital. Security infrastructure is usually deployed in a layered approach, often referred to as "defense in depth" to safeguard the assets and meet regulatory requirements. In this approach, specialized and purpose-built tools like IDS, DLP, APM and so on are deployed. Security in the virtual environment must be consistent with security in physical environment. Gigamon Deep Visibility platform for VMware helps achieve enhanced telemetry and security in an enterprise network from pervasive visibility. It also leverages the existing tools for security enforcement rather than deploying a new set of virtual tools. This also solves the increased complexity and administrative overhead issues to manage additional set of devices and policies.

Gigamon has a variety of solutions to support such implementations. However, this document focuses on the visibility for VMs deployed in VMware vCenter version 8.0.

Design Topology

Design Overview

The design illustrates Gigamon visibility deployment in VMware vCenter 8 with both VSS (Virtual Standard Switch) and VDS (Virtual Distributed Switch). In this deployment, the same set of tools and policies used for the physical network are extended to the VMware deployed workloads.

In this GVD, traffic is acquired from VMware vCenter and optimized using the dedup application before load balancing the same to multiple IDS tools. For the sake of security, specify the VM interface in the inclusion and exclusion map if there are more than one that is currently in operation.

 

To learn more about this solution, read complete details on the Gigamon Community: Deploying_GigaVUE_Cloud_Suite_for_VMware_vCenter8