[181375] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Data Center Network Monitoring with TAPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafael Possamai)
Mon Jun 22 12:45:05 2015
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From: Rafael Possamai <rafael@gav.ufsc.br>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:44:41 -0500
To: Mitch Howards <hbf9121@hotmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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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@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
