Access and visibility in virtual environments

VSS Monitoring’s family of network packet brokers (NPB) provide 100% network visibility - with link-layer visibility of network traffic across LAN, WAN and Internet boundaries - while reducing capex and opex as network size and speeds grow.

The company’s new functionality for visibility across networks has been extended into virtual environments giving enterprises better and more thorough tools to manage their networks as a whole. VSS tools deliver full visibility and management of packets across Cisco Nexus network infrastructures as well as of packets across physical and virtual environments.

As virtual environments get more and more exploited, it is essential for system administrators to have access to more information on how data are used in the virtual segments of a network and not only in physical ones. When embracing virtual environments, there are a set of challenges in monitoring virtual machine (VM)-based traffic. One challenge is the use of proprietary tags by some vendors, tags that are not often understood by network intelligence tools. VSS Monitoring solutions are able to filter and strip off these tags, allowing visibility by all tools.

VSS Monitoring can provide solutions to offload virtual traffic, monitoring and network tools as well as analytical and security tools to simplify operational complexity; as well as access points for maximised visibility, scalability and savings.

The company is able to provide clients a reliable network intelligence infrastructure, featuring packet optimisation to filter traffic based on Virtual Interface IDs and strip VN-Tags.