Gigamon: monitor your virtual servers better

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• Visibility into Virtualized Data Centers

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Migration to Virtualized Servers and Cloud
Computing Offers Many Benefits but also Many
Challenges
Challenges
Reduced Visibility Greater difficulty in finding
fixing performance problems Security
Reality
Your team is virtualized and going to the cloud,
like it or not So you need to figure out how to
overcome the challenges
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Why the Reduced Visibility?
Distributed application architectures
Traffic not traversing the physical network
VMs on the move
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Challenge 1 Traffic not Traversing the Physical
Network
With virtualization, a lot of traffic doesnt
traverse the physical network
Traffic Destination
Traffic Destination
Traffic Destination
Physical Switch
Monitoring/Security Solutions
The result Only part of the traffic is
visible to monitoring at the edge
Traditional monitoring tools cant see new
encapsulated traffic in overlay networks
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Challenge 2 Distributed Application
Architectures
Once monolithic, large applications are now
running in a distributed application architecture
Database
vSwitch
vSwitch
vSwitch
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
OVERLAY NETWORK
UNDERLAY NETWORK
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Challenge 3 VMs on the Move
VM migration across servers or across data center
boundaries uses technologies such as VMotion,
which hide traffic details from monitoring
devices You need to track vMotion events in order
to retain monitoring continuity and history
The result Limited visibility and
potential security gaps
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Additional Challenge Security
If you cant see it, you cant control it
Virtualization creates silos of IT hidden from
security tools
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Additional Challenge Pressure on IT
Infrastructure and Admin
Increased demand to monitor and report on all
network traffic
Need to stay in compliance with internal and
external regulations
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Gigamon Enables Virtual Server and Virtual
Network Monitoring
Gigamon provides unmatched visibility into these
environments
VMs on the move
Traffic not traversing the physical network
Hidden silos of virtualized IT
Distributed application architectures
Overlay/underlay networks
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