Data Center Visibility Deployment Guide

Notas de Aplicação

This application note provides practical guidance on designing and deploying visibility infrastructure for a typical data center network. When designing a visibility network and selecting network packet brokers (NPBs) for your data center, you should consider the following:

  • network topology and clustering options
  • agility, tool additions, and rule changes
  • taps or SPANs
  • deduplication and performance
  • out-of-band monitoring data filtering capability
  • packet encapsulation
  • application intelligence, and metadata generation

This application note also covers some options for visibility in a virtual data center.