Network Visibility Solution For Data Centers
Overview
In today’s digital age, data centers have become the core infrastructure of enterprises and organizations. With the explosive growth of data volumes and the increasing complexity of networks, data centers are facing unprecedented challenges. In this context,Network Packet Broker, as a powerful network visualization and management tool, has become the “nerve center” of the data center, providing powerful support for network management, security and performance optimization.
Asterfusion ’s network visibility solutions are scalable to accommodate increasing volume of activity. They are flexible and adaptable to provide visibility into constantly-changing collection and monitoring & analysis requirements.
Application Scenarios
Independent Deployment
In smaller data centers such as hospitals and schools, where customers only need one or two appliances to meet the demand for network visibility, a standalone deployment is most suitable for them.
Spine-Leaf Architecture
In medium to large data centres such as financial institutions, operator’s core data centres, and cloud service providers, NPB networks can achieve highly scalable, flexible and high-performance data centre traffic monitoring solutions by adopting the Spine-Leaf architecture.
This architecture is especially suitable for large and fast-growing data center environments. Customers just need to tell us the number of ports to be captured and the size of the traffic, as well as the number of ports for the monitoring and analysis tools, and we can instantly figure out the number of Leafs that need to be captured and analysed, and select the right Spine NPB such as PX532P-T and PX564P-T to meet the customer’s possible future expansion needs.
Data Center Interconnect
NPB networking in data centre interconnection scenarios is a complex but important topic. In this scenario, NPBs not only need to handle traffic within a single data centre, but also need to manage and analyse traffic across data centres.
- Local NPB deployment
Deploy a separate NPB system in each data centre to handle local traffic and perform initial analysis.
- Centralised Management Platform
Deploy a centralised management platform to unify the management of NPBs in all data centres and provide global view and policy management.
- Cross-data center data synchronisation
Cross-data center synchronisation of critical monitoring data is achieved by using WDM equipment or dedicated carrier lines
Cross-vendor Networking
In actual deployments, it is a common situation to use equipment from multiple NPB vendors for network visibility. This may be due to historical reasons, specific functional requirements, cost considerations, or to avoid vendor lock-in.
The PX-T Network Visibility Platform
Eliminate Blind Spots
“Blind spots” refer to the inability to analyze the data between certain segments in a network, and may seem “hidden” to your monitoring tool and can compromise network performance and security. If a network expands without a proper visibility fabric in place, blind spots may become apparent.
Network TAPs are used to help IT teams easily monitor all network data. A network TAP is a purpose-built hardware device that allows you to access and monitor your network traffic by copying packets without impacting or compromising network integrity.
Network traffic often exhibits bursts, exceeding peak traffic by 2-3 times and characterized by unpredictable surges. This can lead to packet loss, especially in multi-link aggregation or single-interface output scenarios. Such losses can significantly disrupt the analysis of back-end service monitoring systems.
The PX308P-48Y-T has strong processing capability to deal with burst traffic and provides up to 192GB of shared message cache space to smooth burst traffic.
Line-Rate Packet Deduplication
Complete visibility of data center networks requires viewing traffic at multiple monitoring points. While this increases overall visibility, duplicate traffic can increase storage costs, overload network monitoring tools and adversely affect reporting. Traffic Deduplication improves monitoring tool efficiency, accuracy, and recording space requirements. This enables monitoring tools to provide greater visibility while lowering overall costs.
Unlike other solutions, deduplication is performed at line rate on any product in the PX-T family.
