Overview
Most government agency data centers in the United States are policy driven with procedures in
place for monitoring everything occurring within each center. Many are now highly virtualized,
and while the information technology (IT) teams recognize that visibility gaps exist, many are not
aware of a solution. The Keysight account team introduced this large federal agency to Keysight’s
integrated virtualized visibility platform, which maximized monitoring eectiveness by ensuring
proper access to the data the customer needed, when and where it needs it.
The customer IT team maintains a high level of visibility into physical networks by using numerous
security, forensics, and application performance monitoring tools to perform extensive inspection.
With most servers deployed as virtual machines (VMs) in a VMware stack, it recognized the visibility
gap created by east–west traic flowing between VMs. The customer recognized the need for a
more reliable and holistic view of the network, traic flows, and problem points. It decided to expand
beyond basic virtual data access via native port mirroring and debugging by implementing an end-
to-end visibility architecture that uses virtual taps (vTaps) for access, and network packet brokers
(NPBs) to bolster security, simplify management/configuration, and improve the eiciency of its
monitoring tools.
Solutions
• One hundred virtual taps
• Two Vision ONE network packet brokers
Results
• Integrated visibility system for physical and virtual
segments
• Ability to collect virtual traic and pass to
monitoring tools for trend analysis
Organization
• Large U.S. government
agency
Challenges
• Access to network packets in
virtualized data center
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