Ixia Phantom vTap

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Full visibility of virtualized environments

problem: Virtual Monitoring Challenge

virtualization are changing the rules of the game, including reducing power consumption and increasing uptime. Although communication between virtual machines (VMs) speeds up connections and minimizes dependence on the physical core network, it also hinders visibility of the virtual environment. Failure to fully understand network traffic will affect IT personnel to monitor applications deployed on virtual platforms and will not be fully prepared to meet today's compliance, performance and security challenges.

Solution: Proactively Monitor Security, Availability, and Performance

Ixia Phantom vTap can manage all hypervisors through a single platform, bringing complete visibility of virtual data center network traffic. Ixia Phantom vTap automatically captures and forwards virtual traffic based on user-defined policies, without customizing solutions for each hypervisor platform or requiring IT staff to spend time manually configuring. With Ixia Phantom vTap, companies no longer need to install services or agents on virtual machines or application layers. Results: Accelerate the resolution of virtual traffic network problems and conduct root cause analysis, thus enhancing security, performance and compliance.

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  • provides an automated test environment based on ESXi and KVM/OVS

  • User-defined policies are supported. You can use filters to select traffic

  • Supports forwarding policies and uses VLAN tags, GRE tunnels, and ERSPAN to ensure that related virtual traffic arrives.

  • virtual machine moves between physical locations, it can automatically track and execute policies

  • A common policy is adopted to facilitate automatic detection when new virtual machines are deployed.

  • a single virtual traffic visibility solution for multiple hypervisor platforms


Supported Version

Hypervisor Support

  • VMware vSphere ESXi Server 5.0/5.1

  • Microsoft Hyper-V 2012

  • Citrix XenServer 5.6

Network Connectivity

  • Phantom Manager VM must be accessible via HTTP to access Web UI

  • TCP port 80, 443, and 5989 (and/or custom vCenter port) must be open between Phantom Manager VM and VMware vCenter

Resource Requirements
Disk Storage

  • Thin provision 3.1GB

  • Thick provision 60GB

CPU

  • 1 vCPU

Memory

  • 1GB minimum

  • 2GB recommended

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