Ixia Phantom Tap
Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Virtual Visibility
Phantom vTaps: Virtual Visibility Eliminates Blind Spots Extend Visibility to Your Virtual Environments Virtualization brings a host of operational and economic benefits, but migration can bring new challenges for deployment and security. Complete visibility must be extended to virtualized environments to ensure application performance, prevent dangerous blind spots between Virtual Machines (VMs), and keep networks in compliance with industry regulations. Ixia's Net Optics Phantom Virtualization Taps™ (vTaps) bridge the gap between physical and virtual networks and visibility infrastructures so that you can monitor the virtualized network with your existing set of tools. Residing within hypervisors, these versatile software devices deliver complete visibility into east-west traffic passing between VMs within hypervisors, sending traffic of interest to the tools that are already monitoring your physical network. White Paper: Addressing Monitoring Access Control Challenges Virtualized Environment Driven by the promise of dramatic reductions in the number of physical servers needed (Consolidation ratios of 10:1, 15:1, and even 20:1 have been reported), more and more enterprises are deploying virtualization techniques in their data centers. Virtualization, however, is not without its drawbacks.
One of the biggest challenges is monitoring. Tap solutions have been used for years to facilitate traffic capture, analysis, replay, and logging, helping IT professionals effectively manage their complex networks and meet compliance. But neither traditional Taps, nor any other solution, is able to capture all the traffic that flows between virtual machines (VMs).
White Paper: The State of Virtualization for Visibility Architectures Ixia conducted a survey to better understand how visibility and monitoring solutions are used within the modern enterprise. While information exists on virtualization technology, this report sheds light on how virtualization is actually being used and the techniques and technologies to ensure that it is monitored and integrated into the corporate network structure.
White Paper: Creating a Visibility Architecture A New Perspective on Network Visibility – Ixia's Visibility Architecture is a holistic approach to network visibility that controls costs and administrative burdens, while optimizing the investment value of monitoring and security tools. Ixia’s Visibility Architecture helps speed application delivery and enables effective troubleshooting and monitoring for network security, application performance, and service level agreement (SLA) fulfillment—and allows IT to meet compliance mandates.
Case Study: Phantom Virtual Tap Director xStream Help Leading Energy Provider Phantom™ Virtual Tap, Phantom HD™ and Director xStream™ Help a Leading Global Energy Provider
Datasheet: Ixia Phantom vTap Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Virtual Visibility
