Data Center Network Monitoring with TAPs

Mon Jun 22 16:44:41 UTC 2015

Here's a recent forum thread that discussed the same exact topic. You might
find some insight:
http://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/3aip3p/data_center_network_monitoring/

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Mitch Howards <hbf9121 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Was wondering what folks are using to monitor traffic
>  on their networks. Looking into Ixia and APCON devices for dedup and
> other filtering features as well as passive fiber TAPs to capture the
> traffic.
>
> How are folks handling TAP'ing large data center
> networks? TAPs at the "distribution layer" would be the best fit for my
> network but that would require a ton of passive fiber TAPs for the
> incoming fibers to the distribution switches. The end goal is to not
> only capture the north-south traffic on the network but also east-west
> traffic. It seems more efficient to just use SPANs but there are many
> limitations using SPANs.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> Mitch