Ixia's Net Optics Phantom virtualization probe eliminates the gap between the physical and virtual worlds, allowing you to use existing tools to monitor virtualized networks. Phantom can capture relevant traffic between virtual machines and send it to tools that have monitored physical networks.

Ixia's Phantom vTAP provides 100% visibility of traffic between virtual machines (VM) in virtualized computing environments and cloud environments. Virtualization probes include integrated management and monitoring tools for your virtual monitoring layer. These feature-rich software devices can also send the monitored traffic in the encapsulation tunnel to the physical monitoring tool. In this way, you can use existing tools and infrastructure to monitor your virtual environment.

• to expand monitoring access at the network layer between virtual machines

• for Security and Compliance Monitoring in Virtualized Environments

• apply existing physical monitoring tools, processes and programs to virtual networks.

as VMware's elite technology alliance partner, Ixia has all the tools and resources to provide Phantom virtualization probes on VMware's vSphere 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5 platforms. Since partners can access the kernel hypervisor stack through API, there is no need to install or configure any services or agents at the virtual machine or application level. In this way, you can optimize system resources without affecting performance. Because it is easy to deploy and designed for virtual environments, Phantom probes extend the visibility of monitoring tools to the blind spots brought by virtualization technology.