GigaVUE-FM

Centralized Orchestration and Management of

the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline

FIPS
VALIDATED

140-2

LEVEL 1

GigaVUE-FM is available both as a physical (shown above) or virtual appliance.

Key Benefits • Expedite and reduce manual effort for Gigamon Deep
Observability Pipeline deployments via automation
• Centrally manage, monitor, and configure traffic and bulk configuration management using REST APIs
policies for all Gigamon nodes and Ansible Automation

• Simplify and automate all aspects of defining, Use Cases

deploying, managing, and operating the Gigamon
Deep Observability Pipeline at scale •C
 entralized operations centers looking to configure,
direct, and control traffic from any network (public,
• Integrate with public and private cloud platforms to
private, hybrid cloud, on-premises data centers, or
reduce manual intervention
central offices) to security and monitoring tools for
• Reduce the mean time to resolution (MTTR) of traffic analysis
hot spots for NetOps, CloudOps, and SecOps teams
•N
 etwork security teams tasked with detecting,
with auto-discovery of network topology
reacting, and responding to emerging threats based
•  ssign rights to specific roles based on the user’s job
A on packet- or flow-based traffic analysis
function to lower risk exposure and prevent accidental
•U
 sing the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline to
changes with role-based access control (RBAC)
monitor and troubleshoot traffic hot spots
•  rovide business continuity with high availability (HA)
P
•O
 perations teams aiming to reduce cost and improve
for GigaVUE-FM instances
efficiency through automation

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GigaVUE-FM REST API:

Closed Loop Integration
• ‘Threat’ Detect and Response
• ‘Auto adjust’ traffic granularity
Public Cloud • Integrate with IT Operations User / Third-party
(for example, Splunk) Applications

Private Cloud Application

Performance

Network
Access Broker Transform Enrich
Management

On-premises Security

Tools and Analytics

GigaVUE-FM manages all Gigamon visibility nodes: physical, virtual, and cloud
(the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline).

The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline provides GigaVUE-FM is available as a software-only virtual
pervasive network visibility across physical, virtual, and appliance for AWS AMI, KVM/OpenStack, Microsoft
cloud infrastructure. It also delivers the right traffic Azure/Hyper-V, Google Cloud Images, Nutanix AHV,
to the appropriate security, network, and application and VMware NSX/ESXi. It is also available as a hardware
performance tools. To manage it all, GigaVUE-FM appliance for deployments where turnkey solutions
delivers a single-pane-of-glass view of all physical are preferred. The GigaVUE-FM software-only option
and virtual Gigamon nodes across the Gigamon Deep is available at no charge for cloud-only visibility and/or
Observability Pipeline. With GigaVUE-FM, you get when managing a single physical device only.
an easy-to-use GUI to orchestrate our patented Flow
Mapping® and Fabric Mapping traffic policies, visualize
network topology connectivity, and identify visibility
hot spots.

A single instance of GigaVUE-FM can manage up to

1,000 Gigamon physical visibility nodes across multiple
locations, data centers, public and private clouds, and
up to 3,000 in high-availability cluster arrangements.
GigaVUE-FM helps protect against failure and lets you
scale seamlessly as the size and complexity of your
networks grow.

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Table 1. Key Features and Benefits

Centralized Centralizes management, monitoring, and configuration of physical and virtual traffic policies for all
Management Gigamon nodes. Administrators can better map and direct network traffic to security, network, and
application-performance monitoring tools.

High Availability GigaVUE-FM provides high availability in a group of three, ensuring no loss of management or view
across the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline if an active FM goes offline

Tool View Facilitates tool capacity planning by:

• E
 nsuring the tool is optimally utilized

• E
 mpowering users to select the best tool to route network traffic based on resource availability

• T
 racking tool storage capacity and data wraparound time

Visibility Policy Workflows Simplifies visibility policy configuration for:

• Inline security tools, including traffic forwarding and bypass

• V
 isibility into encrypted traffic with inline SSL/TLS decryption

• A
 pplication-aware filtering and metadata

• F
 low Mapping across hundreds of nodes in one or more clusters

Fabric Health Analytics Advanced dashboards for monitoring the health of the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline and
identifying hot spots

Alarm Management Reduces mean time to resolution (MTTR) by providing root cause of a fault in the fabric. Provides
accurate node health information and granular alarm views for easier troubleshooting and serviceability.

Network-wide Reporting Provides summarization and customization of dashboards for inventory, node/cluster status, events,
and audit trail with options to export and schedule HTML/PDF reports for offline viewing

Visibility Fabric Topology Displays physical deployment and interconnectivity, grouping nodes based on user-defined tags to
match the physical data center and for hierarchical management and monitoring

License Management Manages GigaSMART® application licenses for the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline and floating
licenses between duplicate HC Series nodes

Task Scheduling Automates future and periodic actions including:

• S
 cheduling of firmware version updates to one or many visibility nodes

• S
 cheduling of visibility node configuration backups that allow you to restore a good baseline if
inadvertent changes are applied

• B
 ack up and restoration of the GigaVUE-FM configuration database to allow for GigaVUE-FM
appliance replacement or restoration to a well-known configuration

Programmable Includes REST XML API, Ansible – Automation SDK which facilitates operations teams to:
Integration Interfaces
• A
 utomate bulk fabric configurations, reducing the overall time for fabric deployments

• Integrate inventory, health, port, and traffic insights of the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline into
Splunk Enterprise for correlation and analysis

• Integrate with cloud and virtual infrastructure managers like Amazon CloudWatch, Microsoft Azure
Resource Manager, Google Cloud Operations Suite, OpenStack Horizon, and VMware ESXi/NSX-T

• E
 mpower traffic monitoring or IT operation management tools to discover deep observability
pipeline nodes for inventory and status collection

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Role-Based Access Allows users to be assigned specific roles based on their function to increase security and prevent
Control (RBAC) unauthorized changes. Create, read, update, and delete operations at granular levels using tags.

Single Sign-On (SSO) Simplifies secure single sign-on access including, HA deployments, to enterprises by integrating with
identity and access management (IAM) vendors such as Okta

Automatic Certificate Automates updating of authentication certificates from an enterprise’s certificate management and
Management repository systems
Environment (ACME)

FIPS 140-2 Level 1 Certified Certificate #4066

Table 2. Hypervisor Requirements for Software Edition

Requirements Support up to Support up to Support up to Support up to 3,000
50 Devices 500 Devices 1,000 Devices Devices (FM-HA Mode)

Memory 16GB 32GB 128GB 128GB

Virtual CPU (vCPU) 2 4 12 12

Virtual Storage for OS 40GB 40GB 40GB 40GB

Virtual Network Interface 1 1 1 1

Number of FM nodes 1 1 1 3

•D
 evices include HC Series and/or TA Series nodes

•R
 equirements are tested and verified based on VMware ESXi 6.7.0. Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server
2008 R2 SP1 and later, 2012 R2 and later) and KVM are supported, but scaling is not verified

•C
 PU Min. Speed 2.3GHz

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Table 3. Hardware Appliance Product Specifications*

Feature Description

Rack mounting • O
 ne rack unit (1RU)

• T
 ool-less mounting in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes

• T
 ooled mounting in 4-post threaded hole racks

• C
 able management arm

Dimensions • H
 eight: 1.68 in. (42.8 mm)

• W
 idth: 18.97 in. (482.4 mm)

• D
 epth: 29.85 in. (748.8 mm)

Weight 15.9 kg (35 lbs)

Operating system GigaVUE-FM OS (Gigamon appliance-hardened Linux)

Processor Dual Intel Xeon 2.0GHz, 20C/40T

Memory 256GB RAM (expandable up to 384GB RAM)

Storage • O
 S: 1 x 480GB SSD SATA drive

• D
 ata: 2 x 2.4TB HDD (RAID1, 2TB usable)

Management • IPMI 2.0 compliant

• 2
 x 100/1000M Base-T LAN

Power supply • D
 ual, hot-plug, redundant power supply (1+1)

• 8
 00W (Platinum) AC (100–240V, 50/60Hz, 9.2A-4.7A)

Heat dissipation 3000 BTU/hr

Temperature • O
 perating: 10° C to 35° C (50° F to 95° F)

• S
 torage: -40° C to 65° C (-40° F to 149° F)

Maximum altitude • O
 perating: 3,048 m (10,000 ft)

• S
 torage: 12,000 m (39,370 ft)

Connectors Back

• 2
 x 10/100/1000Mbps LOM

• 2
 x 10/25Gbs SFP28

• 2
 x 100Gbps QSFP56

• 1 x iDRAC9 Ethernet port

• 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0

• 1 x DB15 VGA
Front

• 1 x USB 2.0 (disabled in BIOS)

• 1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB)

• 1 x DB15 VGA

* Applicable to GigaVUE-FM Hardware

Appliance SKU GFM-HW2-FM001-HW

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Table 4. Scalability
Configuration Basic Medium Large Extra Large
(ESXi-VM) (ESXi-VM) (ESXi-VM) (FM Hardware Appliance)

CPU Specification

CPU count (minimum) 2 4 12 32

CPU Min speed (per CPU) 2.30GHz 2.3GHz 2.3GHz 2.10GHz

Memory Specification

Memory Size 16 GB 32GB 128GB 128GB

Appliance Scalability

Number of HC Series/TA 50 500 1,000 1,000

Series nodes (Up to)

Disk Specification (Standalone)

OS disk size 40GB 40GB 40GB 40GB

Config disk size – 15 Days data 80GB 620GB 1100GB 1100GB

Config disk size – 35 Days data 160GB 1240GB 2200GB 2200GB

Config disk size – Daily Index 200GB 1600GB 2500GB 2500GB

35 days + 120 Days Rollup

Disk Specification (FM High Availability Mode – For Each FM)

OS disk size 40GB 40GB 40GB 40GB

Config disk size – 15 Days data 80GB 620GB 1600GB 1100GB

Config disk size – 35 Days data 160GB 1240GB 3000GB 3000GB

Config disk size – Daily index 200GB 1600GB 4300GB 4300GB

35 Days data (+ Data rollup for
120 Days)

Appliance Scalability

Number of HC Series/TA 50 500 3,000 3,000

Series Nodes (Up to)

Note: When deploying FM in ESX use “reservation” option and allocate fixed resource for CPU and memory.
For TLS/SSL advanced dashboards, minimum GigaVUE-FM requirements are Medium (ESXi-VM) or higher.

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Table 5. Compliance and Scalability

Type Description

Table 5A. Compliance*

Safety IEC 60950-1 IT equipment; EN 60950-1 IT equipment

Emissions FCC Part 15, Class A; EN55022/CISPR-22 Class A; CISPR 24; GOST Russia; CE Mark EN 5502 Class A;
Industry Canada ICES-003 Class A; EN 55024; KCC Korea; CCC China

Environmental RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU; Global ENERGY STAR 3.0; REACH Directive; CECP China

Table 5B. Scalability

Physical Instance Up to 1,000 nodes with a single instance and up to 3,000 in a cluster.

Virtual Instance Up to 1,000 G-vTAP agents with 100 GigaVUE V series nodes.

* Applicable to GigaVUE-FM Hardware

Support and Services

Gigamon offers a range of support and maintenance services. For details regarding the Gigamon Limited
Warranty and our 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-derived intelligence to
amplify the power of observability tools. This powerful combination helps 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 ten largest mobile network providers, and
hundreds of governments and educational organizations worldwide. To learn more, please visit gigamon.com.

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