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GigaVUE-VM // Data Sheet
Product Description
The Gigamon GigaVUE-VM Visibility Fabric™ node provides an intelligent filtering technology that
allows specific virtual machine (VM) traffic flows of interest to be selected, forwarded, and delivered
to the monitoring infrastructure (Application, Network, Security) tools, effectively removing any traffic
blind spots in the virtualized infrastructure.
As a VMware vSphere guest VM, the small footprint GigaVUE-VM fabric node is installed without
the need for special software, invasive agents, kernel modules, or changes to the hypervisor. With this
solution, your organization can now achieve the same packet-level traffic visibility between
virtualized applications as is normally available between discrete physical applications and servers.
GigaVUE-FM (Fabric Manager), Gigamon’s centralized management application, tightly integrates
with VMware vCenter to facilitate simplified bulk onboarding of the GigaVUE-VM fabric nodes and
configuration of the VM level traffic monitoring policies.
Leveraging vCenter APIs, GigaVUE-FM fabric manager can track vMotion events across Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and High
Availability (HA) cluster environments, enabling visibility policies to be tied to the monitored VMs and migrate with the VMs as they move
across physical hosts. This automation enables the synchronization of monitoring policies, providing active visibility into an agile and dynamic
Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).
GigaVUE-VM fabric nodes tightly integrate with best-of-breed virtual switching including Virtual Standard Switch (vSS), Virtual Distributed
Switch (vDS) and Cisco Nexus 1000V.
GigaVUE-VM also extends traffic visibility to the VMs deployed on the VMware NSX-V network hypervisor, a network virtualization platform
that delivers the operational model of a virtual machine for the network by creating virtual/overlay virtual networks using VXLAN encapsulation
protocols for traffic segmentation. To get complete traffic visibility into these virtual/overlay networks, GigaSMART® features like header
stripping and Adaptive Packet Filtering can be used to de-capsulate the traffic and provide tenant level filtering.
Having an end-to-end solution that provides traffic visibility into both the physical and virtualized infrastructures empowers the infrastructure
administrators and operators with the insight needed to ensure service quality, security compliancy, and maintain business continuity.
Table 1: Features & Benefits
Feature
Benefit
Visibility into VM Traffic
Intelligent selection, filtering, and forwarding of VM traffic to the “Monitoring and Tool Infrastructure”; extend the reach and
leverage of existing tools to monitor virtual network infrastructure
Support for Packet Slicing
Conserve “production network backhaul” and optimize monitoring infrastructure processing by slicing VM traffic
at required offset, before forwarding it for analysis
Integration with Visibility
Seamless end-to-end visibility across physical and virtual network infrastructure. Optimize monitoring infrastructure by
Fabric Architecture
enabling aggregation, replication, and sharing of traffic streams across multiple monitoring tools and IT teams. Additional
Flow Mapping® and GigaSMART® intelligence can be applied on the virtual traffic before forwarding the tools.
Gigamon and ERSPAN
Leverage your production network to tunnel and forward the filtered virtual traffic from the hypervisor to the GigaVUE
Tunneling Support
platforms; tenant-based IP Tunneling facilitates isolation, privacy, and compliance of monitoring traffic
Support for vMotion
Ensure the integrity of visibility and monitoring policies in a dynamic infrastructure, have real-time adjustment of monitoring
and security posture to virtual network changes, and the ability to respond to disasters/failures without losing NOC insight
and control
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Table 1: Features & Benefits (continued)
Feature
Benefits
Support for VMware vSS,
Maintain end-to-end compliance, security, and monitoring in environments including VMware and Cisco virtual switches
vDS, NSX vSwitch and Cisco
Nexus 1000V
Centralized Management
Reduce OPEX by maintaining and configuring multiple instances of GigaVUE-VM fabric nodes using GigaVUE-FM.
Seamlessly install GigaVUE-VM fabric nodes across hundreds of ESXi or NSX-V hosts leveraging the bulk deployment
capabilities of GigaVUE-FM
The GigaVUE-VM Visibility Fabric Architecture
The following describes the minimum requirements for the hardware on which VMware ESXi or NSX runs GigaVUE-VM fabric nodes.
Table 2: Hardware Requirements:
Requirement
Hypervisor
Description
• VMware vSphere 5.0 and above
• VMware NSX-V (vSphere NSX) 6.0.5 and above
CPU
• One or more 64-bit x86 CPUs with virtualization assist (Intel-VT or AMD-V) enabled
RAM
• At least 8GB
Network
• At least one 1 Gbps NIC
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The following table lists the virtual computing resources that the VMware ESXi server must provide for each GigaVUE-VM fabric node instance.
Table 3: Computing Requirements
Requirement
Description
Memory
• Minimum 2GB memory
Virtual CPU (VCPU)
• One (1)
Virtual Storage for OS
• 4GB using Virtual IDE
Virtual Network Interfaces
• Maximum: 10 Network Adapters
• Network Adapter 1: GigaVUE-VM Management Port
• Network Adapter 2: GigaVUE-VM Tunneling Port
• Network Adapters 3 – 10: GigaVUE-VM Network Ports
Table 4: Ordering Information
Part Number
Description
GFM-VM010
GigaVUE-VM 10 Pack Bundle SW License Extension
GFM-VM050
GigaVUE-VM 50 Pack Bundle SW License Extension
GFM-VM100
GigaVUE-VM 100 Pack Bundle SW License Extension
GFM-VM250
GigaVUE-VM 250 Pack Bundle SW License Extension
SVC-000
12 Months Standard Support and Software Maintenance
SVC-001
1st Year Premium 24x7 Upgrade
SVC-002
12 Months Premium 24x7 Support and Software Maintenance
For More Information
For more information about the Gigamon Visibility Fabric architecture or to contact your local representative, please visit:
www.gigamon.com
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