Niagara Networks - Network Visibility

Enables 100% visibility of virtual network traffic for superior monitoring capabilities in private, hybrid and public clouds

With increasing transition to data center and cloud based environments, IT teams find it challenging to use traditional monitoring tools for traffic visibility. Physical taps are unsuitable for virtual environments since they cannot monitor East-West and inter-VM traffic. Moreover, they cannot track VMs when moved across hypervisors. Niagara Networks’ CloudRay-vTAP is a software solution that addresses these challenges, providing complete visibility of VM traffic in virtual computing environments, be it Private, Public or Hybrid clouds.

 
Extending Visibility to Virtual Networks and Hybrid Clouds

CloudRay Key Benefits

  • Enables Visibility-as-a-Service (VaaS) - agile deployments in cloud-based architectures
  • Supports Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud visibility requirements 
  • Tenant based tunnels, facilitating isolation, privacy, and compliance
  • Blindspot removal with total visibility of East-West, inter-VM, and blade server mid-plane traffic
  • Reduced network bandwidth with multi-layer filtering for virtual network traffic optimization
  • Enabling SLA compliance and comprehensive troubleshooting for NOC teams 
  • One-touch installation enabling bulk deployments with operational simplicity 
  • Centralized control with a dashboard for orchestration and monitoring
  • Complements existing physical TAPs

 

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CloudRay - Key Features

Niagara Networks’ CloudRay-vTAP can replicate all Virtual Machines (VM) traffic without interrupting the regular VM traffic streams with very minimal processing overheads to hypervisor. The tapped traffic is sent to any monitoring tools of choice. Niagara Networks’ CloudRay-vTAP can work in conjunction with Niagara’s existing physical network TAP solutions, thus supports existing hybrid networking environments where both physical and virtual components co-exist.

 

  • Enables 100% visibility of Virtual Machines traffic

  • Supports high-performance VM traffic up to 10Gbs

  • Supports VLAN, VXLAN, and GRE tunneling

  • Supports KVM, VMware ESXi, NSX, and Microsoft Hyper-V

  • Supports Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, and Google GCP cloud services

  • Supports VMware vSS, vVDS, and OpenvSwitch (OVS)

  • Advanced traffic filtering  and packet slicing

  • Supports forwarding tapped traffic to multiple collectors

  • Single pane of glass-based management

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