GigaVUE Operating System

The proven and extensible operating system for Gigamon visibility nodes

Figure 1. G
 igaVUE-OS is the underlying software that drives all physical GigaVUE® appliances.

Key Benefits As a key element within the Gigamon Deep

Observability Pipeline, the GigaVUE-OS software
provides the basis for the GigaVUE HC Series and
• Rich network visibility, management and data- GigaVUE TA Series products to perform aggregation,
delivery services
replication, filtering, tunneling, header stripping,
• Select traffic of interest through user-defined forwarding and distributing at scale. These network
map rules packet brokers are ideal choices to enhance your
• Combines multiple devices to be managed as one security and performance monitoring solutions.
logical node GigaVUE-OS is also used on G-TAP A Series 2 for
management through SSH and/or GigaVUE-FM.
• Load balances across multiple tool instances of the
same type
GigaVUE-OS enables the Gigamon Deep Observability
• Enables network traffic visibility into cloud and Pipeline to offer 25Tbps of traffic intelligence across
remote sites for cloud-based or on-premises tools 32 clustered nodes, greater network traffic visibility
into data-in-motion, minimized traffic overloads, and
• Makes various monitoring tools more effective
more effective options for deploying both inline and
out-of-band security and performance monitoring tools.

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The Solution: GigaVUE HC Series and GigaVUE TA Series

The foundational GigaVUE-OS service provides the port oversubscription challenges. It provides tools
ability to select traffic flows of interest using our with complete traffic flows, maintaining the integrity
patented Flow Mapping® mechanism. of sessions, providing full visibility for security and
application monitoring. Tool weighting and session
Flow Mapping takes line-rate traffic at 100Mb, 1Gb, sampling further optimize tool performance.
10Gb, 25Gb, 40Gb, 100Gb, or 400Gb from various
sources — such as visibility nodes, network TAPs, virtual MPLS and VxLAN protocol header-stripping allows
TAPs, and mirror/SPAN ports across physical, virtual, monitoring and security tools that don’t understand
and cloud networks — and sends it through a set of these network-encapsulation protocols to see into the
user-defined map rules to network-based tools that encapsulated packets or remove the need for them to
secure, monitor, and analyze your IT infrastructure. You remove these protocols themselves, thereby making
can optimize tools by sending only traffic of interest the tools more effective and efficient.
and dropping all irrelevant traffic.
L2GRE and VXLAN tunnel initiation, encapsulation,
GigaStream load sharing distributes network traffic termination, and de-encapsulation provides network
to multiple monitoring tools, allowing you to group traffic visibility into cloud and remote sites for cloud-
multiple tool ports into a logical bundle and throttle supported or on-premises tools.
down traffic before transmission, thereby overcoming

Figure 2. Fabric Health Analytics visualized via GigVUE-FM.

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Clustering lets you manage multiple heterogeneous Top Use Cases

nodes with different underlying hardware capabilities
running GigaVUE-OS as a single logical unit. This Network Operations
unique service allows advanced capabilities in
GigaSMART® modules to be accessed anywhere within • Replicate and/or distribute traffic across multiple
the logical unit even if, for example, traffic arrives network, security, and monitoring tools based on a
on a unit in the cluster that does not have hardware programmable rules engine.
resources natively within it. • Combine core capabilities in GigaVUE-OS with
GigaSMART traffic intelligence to maximize tools
In addition to Gigamon hardware, GigaVUE-OS is also performance and ROI.
available on select whitebox hardware. This lets you
extend the rich visibility services GigaVUE-OS offers Security Operations
into whitebox deployments.
• Create a deep observability pipeline that greatly
GigaVUE-OS supports multiple management methods, expedites deployment of inline, out-of-band, and flow-
including GigaVUE-FM, web interface, SNMP, and based tools across the network.
command line interface (CLI). GigaVUE-FM also offers a • Improve overall network performance and uptime
REST XML API. during upgrades.

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Flow
Mapping TCP Port 445

L4 Port 5060
OR L4 Port 5061

Figure 3. F
 low Mapping — a key GigaVUE-OS feature.

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GigaVUE-OS powers the core and edge visibility nodes in the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline. Implemented in
the most demanding Fortune 100, government agency, and large service-provider environments, GigaVUE-OS provides
the reliability required to help ensure acurate and reliable visibility into physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure.

Key Features and Benefits

System Modular and portable Linux-based OS

Rich network visibility, management, and data-delivery services

Port configurability:

• Full
 flexibility in selecting ports as ingress, intermediate, interconnect, or egress functions

• Unidirectional
 and bi-directional ports

• Tunneling
 ports, ingress and egress

• Enable
 agile response to changes in monitoring infrastructure and monitoring needs

• Facilitate
 passive out-of-band and active inline monitoring via the same node

• Allow
 virtualized traffic to be accessed, or backhauled between locations, over an IP network

Local and remote management using:

• Command
 line interface (CLI)

• SSH


• XML
 API (HTTP/HTTPS)*

• GigaVUE-FM
 (HTTP/HTTPS)

• SNMP
 (v1, v2, v3)

• Syslog


• Easy
 to manage via GigaVUE-FM GUI or via CLI for users already familiar with Cisco

• Easy
 integration with applications using CLI or RESTful API

• Supports
 the SDN paradigm

• Manage
 and orchestrate from single pane of glass

• Alerts
 can be received by any Syslog server or SNMP manager

User access:

• Role-based
 access control (RBAC)
– Multi-tenant user access
– Flexible user/role defined privileges, screen views, and access

• AAA
 security with local and remote authentication (LDAP, RADIUS, TACACS+)

• Automatic
 Certificate Management Environment (ACME)

• Adhere
 to corporate IT security policies

• Meet
 corporate IT authentication policy

• Automates
 updating of authentication certificates from an enterprise’s certificate
management and repository systems

In conjunction with GigaVUE-FM

*

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Core Intelligence Flow Mapping®, including:

• A
 ggregation and replication
– Selective any-to-any port mapping

• F
 iltering
– Layer 2 to 7 rules
– Customizable bitmask filters
– Up to 96k map rules
– Aggregate and egress

• L
 oad sharing
– Layers 2 to 4 hashing criteria
– Session continuity

• Access traffic from any link to any tool, even for different link rates

• Remove issues with asymmetric routing and LAG

• Optimize tools by only forwarding traffic of interest or dropping traffic not of interest

• Spread load across multiple tool instances of same type

Clustering and Fabric Maps

• Enable resilient traffic forwarding

• Manage up to 32 nodes in a cluster as a single virtual node

• Enact end-to-end Flow Mapping, across clusters, scaling to hundreds of nodes

Tunnel termination/decapsulation

Facilitate traffic forwarding from cloud or virtual infrastructures

Tunnel initiation/origination (L2GRE, VXLAN)

Backhaul across IP networks to central sites or cloud-based tools

Protocol header stripping (MPLS, VLAN, VXLAN)

Makes various monitoring tools more effective

Source port tagging with VLAN tags

Pinpoint source of traffic

IP and MAC address modification

• O
 bscure original IP and/or MAC information to meet privacy needs while retaining ability
to distinguish traffic sources.

• A
 llow certain tool types to ingest traffic that meets specific IP and MAC address
requirements.

Device and link discovery with ARP and LLDP

Reduce time to install and configure GigaVUE nodes

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Core Intelligence cont’d Inline Bypass:

• L
 ogical and physical bypass for 100M/1G/10G/25G/40G/100G link rates and copper/fiber
(multimode, single mode) media types

• A
 ggregate multiple network segments

• F
 ilter and load-balance towards inline applications/tools

• E
 asily configure simple and complex tool chains

• C
 ustomizable heartbeat packets for positive (through-path) and negative (block) tests

• R
 emove multiple points of network failure

• P
 rovide full visibility for each inline security tool type (for example, IPS, WAF)

• E
 asily deploy security in layers solutions, for both active and passive scenarios

• S
 eamlessly migrate tools from passive out-of-band to active inline mode

• R
 educe likelihood of network impact due to malfunctioning active inline tools

Product Specifications: Compliance

Aspect Appliance Standard

Security TA Series, HC Series FIPS 140-2 level 1

Ordering Information
Part Number Description

GSW-WBX01 Monthly subscription GigaVUE-OS software license for 500 Gbps (and lower) systems. Includes
bundled Elite Support.

CLS-WBX01 Monthly subscription Advanced Features License corresponding to GSW-WBX01. Includes

bundled Elite Support.

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Support and Services

Gigamon offers a range of support and maintenance services. For details regarding Gigamon Limited Warranty
and its Product Support and Software Maintenance Programs, visit gigamon.com/support-and-services/
overview-and-benefits.

About Gigamon
Gigamon offers a deep observability pipeline that harnesses actionable network-level intelligence to amplify
the power of observability tools. This powerful combination enables IT organizations to assure security and
compliance governance, speed root-cause analysis of performance bottlenecks, and lower operational
overhead associated with managing hybrid and multi-cloud IT infrastructures. The result: modern enterprises
realize the full transformational promise of the cloud. Gigamon serves more than 4,000 customers worldwide,
including over 80 percent of Fortune 100 enterprises, nine of the 10 largest mobile network providers, and
hundreds of governments and educational organizations worldwide.

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