In an IT landscape, businesses are reliant on hyper-converged infrastructures to streamline operations and enhance efficiency. The integration of network and application visibility within these environments is crucial for optimizing performance and ensuring security. As they transition to private cloud solutions, the demand for sophisticated tools that provide comprehensive insights and control has never been greater. Amid this industry shift, Gigamon stands as a leading Nutanix partner, offering cutting-edge solutions designed to address these needs.
Gigamon provides exceptional network and application visibility through its GigaVUE Cloud Suite™ for Nutanix. This suite enhances the efficiency of hyper-converged private cloud environments by integrating seamlessly with Nutanix deployments, utilizing the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline for centralized traffic aggregation and optimization. It ensures precise traffic routing to tools, significantly improving operational control.
The suite enables detailed monitoring and management via Nutanix Prism using Gigamon’s Universal Cloud Tap (UCT) instances, offering comprehensive visibility, including plaintext insight into East-West traffic through Gigamon’s Precryption™ technology. It optimizes traffic processing, reduces tool load, and empowers management with a unified, automated fabric management system for streamlined operations.
Additionally, the GigaVUE Cloud Suite™ offers advanced application intelligence, identifying applications and generating metadata. This reinforces Gigamon’s pivotal role in enhancing Nutanix’s private cloud solutions.
Our Deep Observability Pipeline transforms network traffic into actionable insights, uncovering hidden threats and optimizing hybrid cloud management to ensure unmatched security and efficiency. — Shane Buckley, CEO
Gigamon’s network taps are essential for achieving comprehensive deep observability in hybrid cloud environments, surpassing traditional methods in insight and management. These advanced taps provide full fidelity of network packets and metadata, crucial for accurate monitoring and security. They efficiently capture traffic from diverse sources, including containers and multi-cloud environments, eliminating the need for costly gateway load balancers and multiple tool agents, thus reducing operational costs and simplifying network traffic management.
The GigaVUE Cloud Suite™ for Nutanix uses both physical and virtual network taps to capture 100% of network traffic at full bandwidth. These taps, including passive, active, and bypass models, operate without disrupting network performance, ensuring high availability and security. Passive taps, such as the G-TAP® M Series, offer cost-effective solutions for less critical applications, while unidirectional taps provide enhanced security for sensitive environments. Active taps, like the G-TAP A Series 2, offer resilience for active monitoring, and bypass taps, in conjunction with GigaVUE-OS inline bypass functionality, ensure uninterrupted operation of security tools, maintaining network integrity.
In addition to its robust tapping solutions, Gigamon extends its capabilities through the GigaVUE HC and TA Series visibility appliances. These appliances are designed to scale traffic intelligence and aggregation across multiple network links and locations, delivering deep observability and optimized traffic management. The GigaVUE HC Series provides high-performance, scalable traffic intelligence for enterprises and service providers, while the GigaVUE TA Series aggregates traffic from various sources and forwards it to analytics and security tools. This aggregation and optimization help in filtering and processing traffic before it reaches security and analytics tools, thereby enhancing overall infrastructure security and performance.
Centralized management is further streamlined through the GigaVUE-FM fabric manager, which offers a single-pane-of-glass view for orchestrating and automating the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline. The GigaVUE-FM facilitates efficient policy deployment and management across physical, virtual, and multi-cloud environments. Its intuitive interface supports policy automation, role-based access control, and end-to-end topology visualization, which simplifies the configuration and operation of network visibility tools.
Gigamon’s solutions are pivotal in enabling Nutanix users to secure, monitor, and manage their cloud and data center infrastructures with unmatched precision and efficiency. As a leading Nutanix partner, Gigamon’s dedication to innovation and excellence solidifies its position as a key contributor to advancing the capabilities of private cloud environments, driving both performance and security to new heights.
