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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