Data Center Visibility Deployment Guide
Application Notes
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.