Data Center Network Monitoring with TAPs

Mitch Howards hbf9121 at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 20 16:06:04 UTC 2015


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 		 	   		  


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