Gigamon Inc GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix User Manual

Gigamon Inc GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix

Product Information

The GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix is a software solution provided by Gigamon Inc. It is designed to be installed, configured, and deployed in the Prism Central environment. This suite allows users to configure the GigaVUE Cloud Suite Cloud components and set up traffic monitoring sessions for the Nutanix platform.

Components of GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix
The GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix consists of the following components:

• GigaVUE-FM: This component is installed on the Nutanix platform and is responsible for managing the GigaVUE Cloud Suite.
• Visibility Components: These components enable monitoring and visibility into the traffic flowing through the Nutanix platform.
• Monitoring Session: This component allows users to configure and manage traffic monitoring sessions.

Architecture of GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix
The GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix follows a client-server architecture. The GigaVUE-FM component acts as the server, managing the visibility components and monitoring sessions. The Prism Central environment serves as the client, where users can configure and deploy the suite.

Role Based Access Control
The GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix implements role-based access  control (RBAC), allowing administrators to define user roles and assign specific permissions to each role. This ensures that users have appropriate access and control over the suite’s functionalities.

Product Usage Instructions

Before You Begin
Before configuring and deploying the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix, make sure to fulfill the following prerequisites:

• Have a basic understanding of virtual machines (VMs) and the Nutanix environment.
• Ensure that the minimum compute requirements are met.
• Configure network firewalls as per the specified requirements.

Installation and Deployment
To install and deploy the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix, follow these steps:

1. Upload fabric images to the Nutanix platform.
2. Install GigaVUE-FM on Nutanix.
3. Deploy GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix in the Prism Central environment.

Configuring Components in Nutanix
After deploying the suite, you need to configure the GigaVUE Cloud Suite fabric components in GigaVUE-FM. Follow these steps:

1. Access the Nutanix Fabric Launch Configuration.
2. Configure monitoring domains to define the traffic to be monitored.
3. Configure Nutanix settings to customize the suite’s behavior.

Managing Resources and Monitoring Sessions
Once the components are configured, you can manage resources and set up monitoring sessions. Follow these steps:

• Use the Visibility Components to gain visibility into the traffic flowing through the Nutanix platform.
• Configure and manage monitoring sessions to monitor specific traffic flows.

Additional Sources of Information
For more detailed information on using the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix, refer to the documentation provided. You can also download software and release notes from the Gigamon website or provide feedback on the documentation. If you need technical support or want to inquire about sales, contact the respective departments.

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Change Notes
When a document is updated, the document version number on the cover page will indicate a new version and will provide a link to this Change Notes table, which will describe the updates.

Product Version| Document Version| Date Updated| Change Notes
---|---|---|---
6.2.00| 1.0| 02/15/2022| The original release of this document with 6.2.00 GA

GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix
This guide describes how to install, configure, and deploy the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix in the Prism Central environment. Use this document for instructions on configuring the GigaVUE Cloud Suite Cloud components and setting up the traffic monitoring sessions for the Nutanix.

Topics:

• About GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix
• Configure Components in Nutanix
• Deploy GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix

Audience
This guide is intended for the users who have basic understanding of VMs and Nutanix Environment. This document expects the users to be familiar with the following terminologies that are used in this guide:
Cluster: A group of nodes.
Node: A node is a working machine in Nutanix cluster. Each node runs a standard hypervisor with processors, memories, and local storages.

About GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix
This chapter introduces the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix components and the supported architecture. Refer to the following sections for details:

• Components of GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix
• Architecture of GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix
• Role Based Access Control

Components of GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix
The GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix includes the following components:

• GigaVUE® Fabric Manager (GigaVUE-FM) is a web-based fabric management and orchestration interface that provides a single pane of glass visibility, management, and orchestration of both the physical and virtual traffic that form the GigaVUE Cloud Suite Cloud.You must have GigaVUE-FM installed either on-premises or launched from any of the supported cloud platforms. Refer to the
  “GigaVUE-FM Installation and Upgrade Guide” for details on installing and launching GigaVUE-FM.

• GigaVUE-VM (GVM) is a visibility node that aggregates mirrored traffic from Nutanix hosts. It applies filters and distributes the optimized traffic to:

  • Cloud-based tools
  • On-premise tools, such as a GigaVUE HC Series device

• GigaVUE Cloud Suite Fabric Controller manages multiple GVMs and orchestrates the flow of traffic from GVMs to the monitoring tools. GigaVUE-FM uses one or more GigaVUE Cloud Suite Fabric Controllers to communicate with the GVMs.

Architecture of GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix
The design illustrates the Gigamon visibility in Nutanix and extend the same set of tools and policies used for the physical network to Nutanix deployed workloads.

Role Based Access Control
The Role Based Access Control (RBAC) feature controls the access privileges of users and restricts users from either modifying or viewing unauthorized data. Access privileges in GigaVUE Cloud Suite works on the same principles of access privileges in GigaVUE-FM in which the access rights of a user depends on the following:

• User role: A user role defines permission for users to perform any task or operation
• User group: A user group consists of a set of roles and set of tags associated with that group. When a user is created they can be associated with one or more groups.

To access the resources and to perform a specific operation in GigaVUE Cloud Suite you must be a user with fm_super_admin role or a user with write access to the following resource category depending on the task you need to perform.

Physical Device Infrastructure Management: This includes the following cloud infrastructure resources:

• Cnventory

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• Ÿ Configure GigaVUE Cloud Components
• Ÿ Create Monitoring Domain and Launch Visibility Fabric

Traffic Control Management: This includes the following traffic control resources:

• Monitoring session
• Stats
• Map library
• Tunnel library
• Tools library
•  Inclusion/exclusion Maps

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• Create, Clone, and Deploy Monitoring Session
• Add Applications to Monitoring Session
• Create Maps
• View Statistics
• Create Tunnel End Points

NOTE: Cloud APIs are also RBAC enabled.

Refer to the GigaVUE Administration Guide for detailed information about Roles, Tags, User Groups.

Cloud Overview Page

The overview page is a central location to view and monitor all the monitoring sessions in a single place. You can use this overview page to spot issues which will help in troubleshooting, or perform basic actions like view, edit, clone, and delete. This page provides a quick overview of basic statistics, V Series Alarms, Connection Status and Volume Usage vs Allowance and a table to summarize the active monitoring sessions details. You can also edit the monitoring session from this page instead of navigating to the monitoring session page in each platform.
Go to Traffic > Virtual > Orchestrated Flows > Overview. The Cloud Homepage appears.

Virtual Dashboard Widgets
This section describes the widgets that can be viewed on the overview page.

• Overview
• V Series Alarms
• Connection Status
• Usage (VBL)
• Summary (Monitoring Session details)

Overview
The overview dashboard displays the number of GigaVUE V Series Nodes active in GigaVUE-FM, number of Monitoring sessions and connections configured in all the platofrms, and the number of alarms triggered in V Series Nodes.

V Series Alarms
The V Series Alarms widget presents a pie chart that helps you to quickly to view the V Series alarms generated . Each type of alarm triggered is assigned a color in the graph, which is specified by the legend. Hovering the mouse over an area in the chart displays the total number of V Series alarms triggered.

Connection Status
The connection status presents a pie chart that helps you to quickly to view the connection status of connections configured in the monitoring domain. Each type of connection status is assigned a color in the graph, which is specified by the legend. Hovering the mouse over an area in the chart displays the total number of connected.

Usage
The Usage widget displays the amount of traffic that flows through the GigaVUE V Series Nodes. Each bar in the graph indicates the volume usage on a particular day. Hovering the mouse over a bar in the graph displays the volume allowance and volume usage on that particular day.

Summary
This widget allows you to view the list of all the available monitoring session along with the respective monitoring domain, platform, connection, their health status, V Series Node health status and the deployment status of the connection. You can click on the monitoring session name to view the Edit Monitoring session page of the respective monitoring session.

Configure Components in Nutanix

This chapter describes how to configure GigaVUE V Series Node and GigaVUE V Series Proxy in your environment. Refer to the following sections for details:

• Before You Begin
• Upload Fabric Images
• Install GigaVUE-FM on Nutanix
• Configure GigaVUE Cloud Suite Fabric Components in GigaVUE-FM

Before You Begin
This section describes the requirements and prerequisites to configure the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix. Refer to the following section for details.

• Prerequisites
• Minimum Compute Requirements
• Network Firewall Requirements

Prerequisites
The following are the prerequisites for configuring GigaVUE-FM and fabric images in Nutanix.

• You must upload the GigaVUE-FM image and fabric image (GigaVUE® V Series Node) files in the Prism Central repository. Do not use the Prism Element to upload the GigaVUE-FM image and fabric image files.
•  Assigning a Static IP on Gigamon Fabric Nodes is not supported and the management subnet selection must be DHCP enabled.
• Only one GigaVUE® V Series Node can be deployed per Nutanix Node.
• For GigaVUE Cloud Suite-FM to orchestrate the solution, the minimum requirement that the Nutanix admin account must be a Prism Central Admin on Prism Central and a Cluster Admin on individual clusters. The password must set to be the same across the environment if they are locally managed. Alternatively, if the Nutanix Prism Central is configured with external authentication like AD/LDAP then you can avoid replicating the manual password creation across the environment.
• Ensure that appropriate Nutanix fabric images are uploaded.
• You must create a subnet and security group. For more information on creating a subnet, see Configuring Network Connections.

Default Login Credentials
You can login to the GigaVUE V Series Node, GigaVUE V Series proxy, and G-vTAP Controller by using the default credentials.

default username
Series Node| and password is:
 | Username: gigamon
 | Password: Gigamon123!
GigaVUE V Series proxy| You can login to the GigaVUE V Series proxy by using ssh. The default username and password is: Username: gigamon
Password: Gigamon123!
G-VTAP Controller| You can login to the GigaVUE V Series proxy by using ssh. The default username and password is: Username: ubuntu
Password: ubuntu

Minimum Compute Requirements
The minimum recommended computing requirements are listed in the following table.

Compute Instances| vCPU| Memory| Disk Space| Description
---|---|---|---|---
GigaVUE-FM| 2 vCPU| 16GB| 2 x 40GB| GigaVUE-FM must be able to access the V Series Nodes directly or a GigaVUE V Series Proxy that will relay the commands to the GigaVUE V Series Nodes.

Network Firewall Requirements
Following are the Network Firewall Requirements for Gigamon fabrics for Nutanix deployments.

GigaVUE-FM Inside Nutanix
Inbound| HTTPS| TCP| 443| Anywhere Any IP| Allow GVMs, GigaVUE Cloud Suite fabric controllers, and GigaVUE-FM administrators to communicate with GigaVUE- FM
Inbound| SSH| TCP| 22| Anywhere

Any IP

| Allow GVMs, GigaVUE Cloud Suite fabric controllers, and
Direction| Type| Protocol| Port| CIDR| Purpose
---|---|---|---|---|---
 |  |  |  |  | GigaVUE-FM administrators to communicate with GigaVUE-FM
Outbound| Custom TCP Rule| TCP| 9902| GigaVUE Cloud Suite Fabric Controller IP| Allows GigaVUE-FM to communicate with GigaVUE Cloud Suite Fabric Controllers IP.
GigaVUE Cloud Suite Fabric Controller
Inbound| Custom TCP Rule| TCP| 9902| GigaVUE-FM IP| Allows GVM to communicate with GigaVUE Cloud Suite Fabric Controllers.
Outbound| Custom TCP Rule| TCP| 9903| GVM IP Subnet| Allows GigaVUE Cloud Suite Fabric Controller to communicate with GVMs.
GVM
Inbound| Custom TCP Rule| TCP| 9903| GigaVUE Cloud Suite Fabric Controller IP| Allows GigaVUE Cloud Suite Fabric Controller IP to communicate with GVMs.
Outbound| Custom UDP Rule| UDP|

•  VXLAN (default 4789)
•  L2GRE (IP 47)

| Tool IP| Allows GVM to communicate and tunnel traffic to the tool
Outbound| Custom ICMP Rule| ICMP| –| Tool IP| Allows GVM to health check the tool traffic.

Upload Fabric Images
The recent GigaVUE V Series Node and GigaVUE-FM image file can be downloaded from Gigamon Customer Portal. After fetching the images, upload the fabric images to Prism Central. Select all the available clusters as placements while uploading fabric images.
Upload the appropriate Nutanix image file.
Once the images are uploaded, you can view the images under Virtual Infrastructure > Images in the Nutanix console.

Install GigaVUE-FM on Nutanix
To launch the GigaVUE-FM instance from the Prism Central:

1. Log in to the Gigamon Customer Portal and click on Software and Release Notes.

2. Then, search qcow2 in the search file field.

3. Use the Filter by option to filter your search by Product, Release, Release Type and Release date. Select GigaVUE-FM as the product, and the enter the release version in the release field.

4. The QCOW2 file appears in the list view. Click on the latest QCOW2 file to download it.

5. Log in to Prism Central.

6. In Prism Central, select Dashboard > Virtual Infrastructure > VMs. The VMs page appears.
   NOTE: You can view the uploaded images under Virtual Infrastructure > Images. For more detailed information on how to upload fabric images refer Upload Fabric Images topic in the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix Guide —GigaVUE-VM Guide..

7. On the VMs page, click Create VM. The Create VM window appears.
   NOTE: If the device has more than one cluster, select the required cluster in the Cluster Selection window.

8. Enter or select the values as described in the following table.
   Field| Description
   ---|---
   General Configuration|

   • Name —Enter a name for the VM.

   • Description —Enter description for the VM. (optional)

   • Timezone —Select the time zone from the drop-down list.
     Compute Details|

   • vCPU(s) —number of vCPUs required. Minimum value is 2vCPUs. However, the recommended value is 4vCPUs.

   • Number Of Cores Per vCPU —number of cores per vCPU.

   • Memory —memory size of the vCPU(s). Minimum value is 16GB.
     Disks| Add, edit or delete the disks. Add the GigaVUE-FM qcow2 disk image and a Container (second disk), minimum of 40GB for the VM. Select the primary image (GigaVUE-FM qcow2) as Boot Device.
     Network Adapters (NIC)| Add a minimum of 1 vNIC for traffic management.
     VM Host Affinity (Optional)| Set Affinity by choosing the required nodes to run GigaVUE-FM or a particular VM.

9. Click Save and the new VM appears on the VMs list with the Power State as Off.

10. Select the new VM and then select Actions > Power On. The new VM is now Active.

11. Select the new VM and then select Actions > Launch console. The GigaVUE-FM console appears.

12. Log in to the GigaVUE-FM console as admin with the user name as admin and default password admin123A!! and you are requested to change the password.

NOTE: You can also choose to perform the IP Networking and NTP configurations by running the fmctl jump-start command after you power on the GigaVUE-FM instance. Refer to Perform Network Configurations topic in the GigaVUE-FM Installation and Upgrade Guide for more details on how to use fmctl jump-start to perform the initial network configuration.

Deploy GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix

This section describes how to connect, launch, and deploy fabric components of GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix.

Refer to the following sections for details:

• Install GigaVUE-FM on Nutanix
• Create a Monitoring Domain
• Configure GigaVUE Cloud Suite Fabric Components in GigaVUE-FM
• Configure Monitoring Sessions

Configure GigaVUE Cloud Suite Fabric Components in GigaVUE-FM
You must establish a connection between GigaVUE-FM and your Prism environment before you can perform the configuration steps for GigaVUE® V Series Node and GigaVUE V Series Proxy. After a connection is established, you can use GigaVUE-FM to specify a launch configuration for the GigaVUE® V Series Nodes.

Nutanix Fabric Launch Configuration
The fabric images (GigaVUE V Series Proxy and GigaVUE® V Series Node) are launched by GigaVUE-FM based on the configuration made in Nutanix Fabric Launch Configuration page.
GigaVUE V Series Proxy manages multiple GigaVUE® V Series Node and orchestrates the flow of traffic from GigaVUE® V Series Nodes to the monitoring tools.
To configure the Nutanix Fabric Images in GigaVUE-FM, do the following:

1. After Nutanix Configuration in GigaVUE-FM, you are navigated to Nutanix Fabric Launch Configuration page.

2. On the Nutanix Fabric Launch Configuration page, enter or select the following information.
   Field| Description
   ---|---
   Cluster| Select the cluster where the GigaVUE V Series Proxy and GigaVUE® V Series Node are to be deployed.
   Configure a V Series Proxy (Optional)| Select this option to configure a V Series Proxy.
   GigaVUE® V Series Node|

   • Hosts —Select a node or multiple nodes from the selected Cluster.
   • Version —Select a GigaVUE® V Series Node image file. Refer to Upload Fabric Images for more information.
   • Manangement Subnet —The subnets registered in Prism Central are listed. Select a management subnet as specified in the Prerequisites.
   • Data Subnets —Select the subnet(s) based on the required VMs and vNICs. Click Add Subnet to add additional Subnets.
   • Memory Size (GB) —Enter the memory size of the vCPU(s)
   • Disk Size (GB) —Enter the image size of the GigaVUE® V Series Node.
   • Number of vCPUs —Enter the number of vCPUs required.
   • Cloud-init User Data (Optional) —Enter cloudinit user data (YAML, JSON, or Shell script)

3. Click Save & Configure Next Cluster to configure next Cluster, O rClick Save & Exit to initiate the deployment of the selected fabric images. You can view the status of the deployment on the Tasks page of Prism Central.

To view the fabric launch configuration specification of a fabric node, click on a V Series fabric node, and a quick view of the Fabric Launch Configuration appears on the Monitoring Domain page.

Configuring Monitoring Domain
To configure Nutanix in GigaVUE-FM:

• Go to Inventory > VIRTUAL > Nutanix, and then click Monitoring Domain. The Nutanix Configuration page appears.

• On the Nutanix Configuration page, click New. The Nutanix Configuration page appears.

• In the Nutanix Configuration page, enter or select the following details:
  Field| Description
  ---|---
  Monitoring Domain| Name of the monitoring domain.
  Connection Alias| Name of the connection.
  Nutanix Prism Central IP| IP address of the Prism Central.
  Nutanix Prism Central Username| Username of the Prism Central User with admin role privilege.
  Nutanix Prism Central Password| Prism Central Password used to connect to the Nutanix.
  Cluster| Clusters that need to be monitored

• Click Save. The Nutanix Fabric Launch Configuration page appears.

Nutanix Fabric Launch Configuration
The fabric images (Fabric controller and GVM) are launched by GigaVUE-FM based on the configuration made in Nutanix Fabric Launch Configuration page.
GigaVUE Cloud Suite Fabric Controller manages multiple GVMs and orchestrates the flow of traffic from GVMs to the monitoring tools. GigaVUE-FM uses one or more GigaVUE Cloud Suite Fabric Controllers to communicate with the GVMs.
To configure the Nutanix Fabric Images in GigaVUE-FM, do the following:

• After Nutanix Configuration in GigaVUE-FM, you are navigated to Nutanix Fabric Launch Configuration page.

• On the Nutanix Fabric Launch Configuration page, enter or select the following information.

• Click Save & Configure Next Cluster to configure next Cluster,OrClick Save & Exit to initiate the deployment of the selected fabric images. You can view the status of the deployment on the Tasks page of Prism Central.
  To view the fabric launch configuration specification of a fabric node, click on a V Series fabric node, and a quick view of the Fabric Launch Configuration appears on the Monitoring Domain page.

Configure and Manage Resources
This section describes how to setup tunnel endpoints in a monitoring session to receive and send traffic to the GVM. It also describes how to filter and send the traffic from the GVM to the various monitoring tools.

Refer to the following sections for details:

• Visibility Components
• Monitoring Session
• Configure Nutanix Settings

Visibility Components
The GVM aggregates the traffic from Nutanix platform and filters it using maps. The following table lists the components of the monitoring session:

is a collection of one or more rules (R). The traffic passing through a map can match one or more rules defined in the map.
Rule| A rule (R) contains specific filtering criteria that the packets must match.

The filtering criteria lets you determine the targets and the (egress or ingress) direction of tapping the network traffic.

A rule is also associated with priority and action set.

Priority| A priority determines the order in which the rules are executed. The greater the value, the higher the priority.

The priority value can range from 0 to 99.

Action Set| An Action Set is an exit point in a map that you can drag and create links to the other maps and monitoring tools. A single map can have multiple action sets. A single action set can have multiple links connecting to maps. You can create an Action Set when you create a rule for a map.

In the following example, Map 1 has two action sets: Action Set 0 and Action Set 1. The packets that match the rules in Action Set 0 are forwarded to monitoring tools. The packets that match the rules in Action Set 1 are forwarded to Map 2.

A single action set can have up to 8 links connecting the same destination point. The same packets from the map are replicated in 8 different links.

Link| A link directs the packets to flow from a map to the destination. The destination could be the other maps and the monitoring tools.
Group| A group is a collection of maps that are pre-defined and saved in the map library for reuse.
Inclusion Map| An inclusion map determines the instances to be included for monitoring. This map is used only for target selection.
Exclusion Map| An exclusion map determines the instances to be excluded from monitoring. This map is used only for target selection.
Target| A target determines the instances that are to be monitored. Targets are determined based on the following formula:

Automatic Target Selection (ATS)| A built-in feature that automatically selects the cloud instances based on the rules defined in the maps, inclusion maps, and exclusion maps in the monitoring session.
Tunnel| A tunnel lists the monitoring tools to which the traffic matching the filtered criteria is routed.

Monitoring Session
GigaVUE-FM automatically collects inventory data on all target VMs available in your environment. You can design your monitoring session to include or exclude the target VMs that you want to monitor. You can also choose to monitor egress, ingress, or all traffic.
When a new target VM is added to your environment, GigaVUE-FM automatically detects and adds the VM into your monitoring session. Similarly, when a VM is removed, it updates the monitoring sessions to show the removed instance.
To design your monitoring session, refer to the following sections:

• Create a new Monitoring Session
• Create Tunnel Endpoints
• Create Map
• Deploy Monitoring Session
• View Statistics
• View Topology

Create a new Monitoring Session
You can create multiple monitoring sessions within a single connection. To create a new monitoring session:

1. From the left navigation pane, select Traffic > VIRTUAL > Orchestrated Flows > Nutanix. The Monitoring Session page appears.

2. Click New. The Create a New Monitoring Session dialog box appears.

3. In the Create a New Monitoring Session dialog box, enter the required information as described in the following table.

4. Click Create and a new monitoring session is created.

Create Tunnel Endpoints
Traffic from the GVM is distributed to tunnel endpoints in a monitoring session. A tunnel endpoint can be created using a standard L2GRE or VXLAN tunnel.

To create a tunnel endpoint:

1.  After creating a new monitoring session, or click Edit on an existing monitoring session, the GigaVUE-FM canvas appears.
2. In the canvas, select New > New Tunnel, drag and drop a new tunnel template to the workspace. The Add Tunnel Spec quick view appears.
3. On the New Tunnel quick view, enter or select the required information as described in the following table.
   Field| Description
   ---|---
   Alias| Enter a name for the monitoring session.
   Monitoring Domain| Select an existing monitoring domain.

The Connection field appears on selecting a monitoring domain.

Connection| Select the required connections.
4. Click Save.
To delete a tunnel, select the required tunnel and click Delete.

Create Map
Each map can have up to 32 rules associated with it. The following table lists the various rule conditions that you can select for creating a map, inclusion map, and exclusion map.
Table 1: Conditions for the Rules

L2, L3, and L4 Filters
EtherType| The packets are filtered based on the selected ethertype. The following conditions are displayed:

• IPv4
• ARP
• RARP
• Other L3 Filters

If you choose IPv4, the following L3 filter conditions are displayed:

• Protocol
• IP Fragmentation
• IP Time to live (TTL)
• IP Type of Service (TOS)
• IP Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
• IP Source
• IP Destination

| L4 Filters
If you select TCP or UDP protocol, the following L4 filter conditions are displayed:

• Port Source
• Port Destination

MAC Source| The egress traffic matching the specified source MAC address is selected.
MAC Destination| The ingress traffic matching the specified destination MAC address is selected.
VLAN| All the traffic matching the specified IEEE 802.1q Virtual LAN tag is filtered. Specify a number from 0 to 4094.
VLAN Priority Code Point (PCP)| All the traffic matching the specified IEEE 802.1q Priority Code Point (PCP) is filtered. Specify a value between 0 to 7.
VLAN Tag Control Information (TCI)| All the traffic matching the specified VLAN TCI value is filtered. Specify the exact TCI value.
Pass All| All the packets coming from the monitored VMs are passed through the filter. When Pass All is selected, the L3 and L4 filters are disabled.

When you select a condition without source or destination specified, then both egress and ingress traffic is selected for tapping the traffic. For example, if you select EtherType as IPv4, TCP as the protocol, and do not specify IPv4 source or destination, then both egress and ingress traffic is selected for monitoring purpose.
When you select a condition with either source or destination specified, it determines the direction based on the selection.
NOTE: You can create Inclusion and Exclusion Maps using all default conditions except EtherType and Pass All.

1. In the Monitoring Session canvas, select New > New Map, drag and drop a new map template to the workspace. The New Map quick view appears.

2. On the New Map quick view, enter or select the required information as described in the following table.
   Parameter| Description
   ---|---
   Alias| The name of the new map.
   Comments| The description of the map.
   Map Rules| The rules for filtering the traffic in the map. To add a map rule:

   • Click Add a Rule.
   • ** Select a condition from the Search L2 Conditions** drop-down list and specify a value. Based on this selection, the Search L3 Conditions drop- down list is automatically updated.
   • Select a condition from the Search L3 Conditions drop-down list and specify a value.
   • (Optional) If you have selected TCP or UDP as the protocol in the L3 conditions, then select Port Source or Port Destination from the Search L4 Conditions drop-down list and specify a value. If you have selected conditions other than TCP or UDP, then the Search L4 Conditions drop- down list is disabled.
   • (Optional) In the Priority and Action Set box, assign a priority and action set.
   • (Optional) In the Rule Comment box, enter a comment for the rule.

Note:

  * Repeat steps **b** through **f** to add more conditions.
  * Repeat steps **a** through **f** to add nested rules.  

NOTE: Do not create duplicate map rules with the same priority.

3. To reuse the map, click Add to Library. Save the map using one of the following ways:

4. Select an existing group from the Select Group list and click Save.

5. Enter a name for the new group in the New Group field and click Save.
   NOTE: The maps saved in the Map Library can be reused in any monitoring session created in the connection.

6. Click Save.
   You can also perform the following action in the Monitoring session canvas.

7. Click a map and select Details to edit the map or select Delete to delete the map.

8. Click the Show Targets button to view the monitoring targets highlighted in orange.

9. Click to expand the Targets dialog box. Click to change the view from the Topology view to the targets view. To view details about a GVM, click the arrow next to the VM.

10. In the Instances window, click

Deploy Monitoring Session
To deploy the monitoring session:

1. Drag and drop one or more maps from the MAP LIBRARY section to the canvas.

2. (Optional) To add Inclusion and Exclusion maps, drag and drop the maps from the Map Library to their respective section at the bottom of the workspace.

3. Drag and drop one or more tunnels from the TUNNELS section to the canvas.

4. Hover your mouse on the map, click the red dot, and drag the arrow over to another map, or tunnel.
   NOTE: You can drag multiple arrows from a single map and connect them to different maps.

5. Click Show Targets to view details about the subnets and monitored instances. The instances and the subnets that are being monitored are highlighted in orange.

6. Click Deploy to deploy the monitoring session. The status is displayed as Success in the Monitoring Sessions page. The session is successfully deployed on all GVMs. Click on the status link in the Status column on the Monitoring Session page to view the Monitoring Session Deployment Report. When you click on the Status link, the Deployment Report is displayed. If the monitoring session is not deployed properly, then one of the following errors is displayed in the Status column.

7. Partial Success—The session is not deployed on one or more instances due to GVM failure.

8. Failure—The session is not deployed on any of the GVMs.
   The Monitoring Session Deployment Report displays the errors that appeared during deployment.

The Monitoring Session page also has the following buttons:

N OTE : In case of an error while editing a monitoring session, undeploy and deploy the monitoring session again.

Delete| Deletes the selected monitoring session.

View Statistics
The Monitoring Session Statistics page lets you analyze the incoming and outgoing traffic on an hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly basis. The traffic can be viewed based on kilobits/second, megabits/second, or gigabits/second.

On the Monitoring Sessions page, click View in the Statistics column to view the Monitoring Session Statistics page.
The Monitoring Session Statistics page appears where you can analyze incoming and outgoing traffic.
Directly below the graph, you can click on Incoming Maps, Outgoing Maps, or Ratio (Out/In) to view the statistics individually.
At the bottom of the Monitoring Session Statistics page, you can click on View Monitoring Session Diagram. The Monitoring Session Diagram quick view appears.
On the Monitoring Session Diagram page, you can expand any map, or tunnel to open a Quick View for that item to see more details about the incoming and outgoing traffic for that item.
You can also scroll down the Map Statistics Quick View to view the Map Rules, Action Sets, and Map Info for this map. You can select Map Rules or Action Sets to view the traffic matching the selected rule on the graph in the Quick View.

View Topology
You can have multiple connections in GigaVUE-FM. Each connection can have multiple monitoring sessions configured within them. You can select the connection and the monitoring session to view the selected subnets and instances in the topology view.

To view the topology diagram:

• From the left navigation pane, select Traffic > VIRTUAL > Orchestrated Flows > Nutanix. The Monitoring Session page appears.
• Click Topology tab, the Topology page appears.
• Select a connection from the Select connection… drop-down list. The topology view of the subnets and instances are displayed.
• (Optional) Select a monitoring session from the Select monitoring session… drop-down list. The monitored subnets and instances change to blue.
• Select one of the following check boxes:
  • Fabric—Displays the topology view of the Fabric VMs.
  • Monitored—Displays the topology view of the selected target interfaces that are being monitored.
  • Not Monitored—Displays the topology view of the interfaces that are not being monitored.
• (Optional) Hover over or click the subnet or VM Group icons to view the subnets or instances present within the group.

In the topology page, you can also do the following:

• Use the Filter button to filter the instances based on the VM name, VM IP, Subnet ID, or Subnet IP, and view the topology based on the search results.
• Use the Default View button to view the topology diagram based on the source interfaces of the monitoring instances.
• Use the arrows at the bottom-right corner to move the topology page up, down, left, or right. Click the Fit-to-Width icon to fit the topology diagram according to the width of the page.
• Use + or – icons to zoom in and zoom out the topology view.

Configure Nutanix Settings
To configure the Nutanix Settings:

• Go to Inventory > VIRTUAL > Nutanix and then click Settings. The Settings page appears.
• Click Advanced tab on the Settings page, click Edit to edit the Settings fields. Refer to the following table for descriptions of the Settings fields:
  Settings| Description
  ---|---
  Maximum number of connections allowed| Specifies the maximum number of connections you can establish in GigaVUE-FM.
  Refresh interval for VM target selection inventory (secs)| Specifies the frequency for updating the state of target VMs in Nutanix.

Additional Sources of Information

This appendix provides additional sources of information. Refer to the following sections for details:

• Documentation
• Documentation Feedback
• Contact Technical Support
• Contact Sales
• The VÜE Community

Documentation
This table lists all the guides provided for GigaVUE Cloud Suite software and hardware. The first row provides an All-Documents Zip file that contains all the guides in the set for the release.

NOTE: In the online documentation, view What’s New to access quick links to topics for each of the new features in this Release; view Documentation Downloads to download all PDFs.
Table 1: Documentation Set for Gigamon Products

GigaVUE Cloud Suite 6.2 Hardware and Software Guides
DID YOU KNOW? If you keep all PDFs for a release in common folder, you can easily search across the doc set by opening one of the files in Acrobat and choosing Edit > Advanced Search from the menu. This opens an interface that allows you to select a directory and search across all PDFs in a folder.

Hardware
how to unpack, assemble, rack-mount, connect, and initially configure ports the respective GigaVUE Cloud Suite devices; reference information and specifications for the respective GigaVUE Cloud Suite devices
GigaVUE-HC1 Hardware Installation Guide
GigaVUE-HC2 Hardware Installation Guide
GigaVUE-HC3 Hardware Installation Guide
GigaVUE-HC1-Plus Hardware Installation Guide
GigaVUE-TA25E Hardware Installation Guide
GigaVUE-TA200E Hardware Installation Guide
GigaVUE-TA25 Hardware Installation Guide
GigaVUE-TA200 Hardware Installation Guide
GigaVUE-TA400 Hardware Installation Guide
GigaVUE-TA10 Hardware Installation Guide

GigaVUE Cloud Suite 6.2 Hardware and Software Guides
GigaVUE-TA40 Hardware Installation Guide
GigaVUE-TA100 Hardware Installation Guide
GigaVUE-TA100-CXP Hardware Installation Guide
GigaVUE-OS Installation Guide for DELL S4112F-ON
G-TAP A Series 2 Installation Guide
GigaVUE M Series Hardware Installation Guide
GigaVUE-FM Hardware Appliance Guide for GFM-HW1-FM010 and and GFM-HW1-FM001-HW
Software Installation and Upgrade Guides
GigaVUE-FM Installation, Migration, and Upgrade Guide
GigaVUE-OS Upgrade Guide
GigaVUE V Series Migration Guide
Fabric Management and Administration Guides
GigaVUE Administration Guide
covers both GigaVUE-OS and GigaVUE-FM
GigaVUE Fabric Management Guide how to install, deploy, and operate GigaVUE- FM; how to configure GigaSMART operations; covers both GigaVUE-FM and GigaVUE- OS features
Cloud Guides how to configure the GigaVUE Cloud Suite components and set up traffic monitoring sessions for the cloud platforms
GigaVUE V Series Applications Guide
GigaVUE V Series Quick Start Guide
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS–GigaVUE V Series 2 Guide
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure–GigaVUE V Series 2 Guide
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for OpenStack–GigaVUE V Series 2 Guide
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix Guide—GigaVUE V Series 2 Guide
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guide
*GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Third Party Orchestration
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AnyCloud Guide
Universal Container Tap Guide

GigaVUE Cloud Suite 6.2 Hardware and Software Guides
Gigamon Containerized Broker Guide
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for AWS–GigaVUE V Series 1 Guide
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Azure–GigaVUE V Series 1 Guide
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for OpenStack–GigaVUE V Series 1 Guide
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix Guide—GigaVUE-VM Guide
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE-VM Guide

Reference Guides
GigaVUE-OS CLI Reference Guide
library of GigaVUE-OS CLI (Command Line Interface) commands used to configure and operate GigaVUE HC Series and TA Series devices
GigaVUE-OS Cabling Quick Reference Guide guidelines for the different types of cables used to connect Gigamon devices
GigaVUE-OS Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix compatibility information and interoperability requirements for Gigamon devices
GigaVUE-FM REST API Reference in GigaVUE-FM User’s Guide
samples uses of the GigaVUE-FM Application Program Interfaces (APIs)

Release Notes
GigaVUE-OS, GigaVUE-FM, GigaVUE-VM, G-TAP A Series, and GigaVUE Cloud Suite Release Notes new features, resolved issues, and known issues in this release ; important notes regarding installing and upgrading to this release
NOTE: Release Notes are not included in the online documentation.
NOTE: Registered Customers can log in to My Gigamon to download the Software and Release Notes from the
Software & Docs page on to My Gigamon. Refer to How to Download Software and Release Notes from My Gigamon.

In-Product Help
GigaVUE-FM Online Help
how to install, deploy, and operate GigaVUE-FM.

How to Download Software and Release Notes from My Gigamon
Registered Customers can download software and corresponding Release Notes documents from the Software & Release Notes page on to My Gigamon. Use the My Gigamon Software & Docs page to download:

• Gigamon Software installation and upgrade images,
• Release Notes for Gigamon Software, or
• Older versions of PDFs (pre-v5.7).

To download release-specific software, release notes, or older PDFs:

• Log in to My Gigamon
• Click on the Software & Release Notes link.
• Use the Product and Release filters to find documentation for the current release. For example, select Product: “GigaVUE-FM” and Release: “5.6,” enter “pdf” in the search box, and then click GO to view all PDF documentation for GigaVUE-FM 5.6.xx.

NOTE: My Gigamon is available to registered customers only. Newer documentation PDFs, with the exception of release notes, are all available through the publicly available online documentation.

Documentation Feedback
We are continuously improving our documentation to make it more accessible while maintaining accuracy and ease of use. Your feedback helps us to improve. To provide feedback and report issues in our documentation, send an email to: [email protected]
Please provide the following information in the email to help us identify and resolve the issue. Copy and paste this form into your email, complete it as able, and send. We will respond as soon as possible.

Documentation Feedback Form

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Contact Technical Support
For information about Technical Support: Go to Settings Support > Contact Support in GigaVUE- FM.
You can also refer to https://www.gigamon.com/support-and-services/contact- support for Technical Support hours and contact information.
Email Technical Support at [email protected].

Contact Sales
Use the following information to Gigamon channel partner or Gigamon sales representatives. Telephone: +1.408.831.4025
Sales: [email protected]

Partners: www.gigamon.com/partners.html

Premium Support
Email Gigamon at [email protected] for information on purchasing 24×7 Premium Support. Premium Support entitles you to round-the-clock phone support with a dedicated Support Engineer every day of the week.

The VÜE Community
The VÜE Community is a technical site where Gigamon users, partners, security and network professionals and Gigamon employees come together to share knowledge and expertise, ask questions, build their network and learn about best practices for Gigamon products.
Visit the VÜE site to:

• Find knowledge base articles and documentation
• Ask and answer questions and learn best practices from other members.
• Join special-interest groups to have focused collaboration around a technology, use-case, vertical market or beta release
• Take online learning lessons and tutorials to broaden your knowledge of Gigamon products.
• Open support tickets (Customers only)
• Download the latest product updates and documentation (Customers only)

The VÜE Community is a great way to get answers fast, learn from experts and collaborate directly with other members around your areas of interest.
Register today at community.gigamon.com
Questions? Contact our Community team at [email protected].

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