using netflow to improve network visibility and application performance
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Network and application performance issues can cost your business millions of dollars in lost revenue and productivity. Without persistent, real-time visibility of the infrastructure, Network Operations teams lack the information to predict potential business disruption and prove network and application performance. Join us on November 6 at 7:00 a.m. PT and hear from Lee Doyle, Principal Analyst at Doyle Research, about the solutions to today’s performance visibility challenges, including: •Trends affecting traffic visibility, such as application mobility, network upgrades, and data center virtualization and consolidation •Best practices for managing Quality of Service and reducing failure scenarios •Critical criteria to consider when selecting performance management solutions In addition, hear from Richard Trujillo (Emulex Product Marketing) and Scott Frymire (SevOne Product Marketing) how the joint deployment of the Emulex EndaceFlow™ 3040 NetFlow Generator Appliance and SevOne’s Network Performance Management solution lowers time to resolution by reliably monitoring the makeup of the traffic traversing your most critical links.TRANSCRIPT
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NetFlow Generation and Analysis: A Solution to Improve Network and Application Performance
Richard Trujillo, Product Marketing Manager, EmulexScott Frymire, Director of Product Marketing, SevOneLee Doyle, Principal Analyst, Doyle Research
The Importance of Network Visibility
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Leading Trends Impacting the Network
VDI
Cloud
Mobile
Big DataBYOD
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Networks are Critical to the Business
Networks deliver applications and information throughout the organization
Networks must have high performance, low latency, reliable, and secure
Traffic patterns are changing: more east-west, less north-south
Network/data center downtime is expensive
Managing/securing the network remains challenging and costly (OPEX)
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Network Complexity and Value are Increasing
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er V
alue
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Network Complexity
Data Center
Server virtualization
VM mobility Network/storage
convergence
Bandwidth Growth
Widespread adoption of 10GbE
Cloud
Video
Mobility
SDN Adoption
Separation of Control and Data Plane
Network Programmability
Centralized Intelligence
Network Slicing
Network Visibility Benefits
Tools help IT/network staff with routine monitoring tasks
Automation
Better understand and tune the network; respond to dynamic traffic patterns
Monitor All Traffic
Supports offload of traffic analysis from production switches
Performance
Improved network management and reduced operational costs
Improved OPEX
Identify and isolate “bad” traffic, ability to handle DDoS attacks
Security
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Product Requirements Improved performance monitoring = visibility at scale
Secure networks – leveraging behavior analysis to detect traffic anomalies
Monitoring solution must support complete analysis of 10GbE traffic flow (high performance)
Move from reactive to proactive management with new tools – software defined applications
Ease of installation, ease of operation, cost effective
Support for standards and third-party applications
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Scott FrymireDirector of Marketing
Who is SevOne?(in a nutshell)
Networks Applications Systems Cloud Virtualization
Network + IT Performance Management
Prove it. Predict it.
Lack of Visibility = Headaches
Single Click Metric-to-Flow
Automation
Automatic baselines for every metric collected
Proactive Alerts
Time
Busi
ness
Impa
ct
Help Desk Calls Begin
IssueEscalated
Network teamTroubleshoots
Server teamTroubleshoots
App teamTroubleshoots
Tiger TeamAssembled
Cause Identified
FixApplied
Noticeable Impact
Something changes
Typical Incident Lifecycle
Courtesy of Enterprise Management Associates
Time
Busi
ness
Impa
ct
Noticeable Impact
Something changes
Proactive Intervention
Early WarningAnalytics Alarm
FixApplied
Courtesy of Enterprise Management Associates
Capacity Projections
Ease of Installation
Everything in a Single Appliance
No Additional Software
No SevOne Agents
No Additional Licensing
"SevOne did the one thing no other vendor could do... save us hundreds of operational man-hours that in turn freed us up to work on new innovations for our network."
Cory CrabtreeApplication Solutions Engineer
Reduction in OPEX
A single SevOne appliancemonitors 200,000 objects
SevOne monitors4+ million objectsfrom a single rack
Support for Third Party Data
Endace Unsampled Flow in SevOne
How SevOne Helps Customers:
AutomationProactive AlertsReduction in OPEXEase of AdministrationSupport for Third Party Data
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Network Visibility Solution:EndaceFlow 3040 & SevOne DNC
Richard Trujillo – Marketing Manager, Emulex
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Endace Fusion Ecosystem™ Program – Key to Visibility
Critical network elements unable to process high-speed data flows and publish millions of NetFlow records
Proprietary silo solutions for NPM/APM are proving to be too expensive
Sniffers can not scale to 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE), much less 40GbE and 100GbE
…. Together, we provide the next generation of network visibility and performance monitoring solutions
EndaceFlow NGA
Routers, Switches
Network Packet Brokers,
Tap or SPAN
Timestamped
Analytics & reports
Less Complexity Less Cost Better Visibility
FilteredReduced
Together
SevOneDNC
SevOneDNC
Netflow
SN
MP
10GbE links40GbE aggregated
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EndaceFlow 3040 NGA For NetFlow Generation
Designed for high-density 10GbE data centers
100% accurate NetFlow generation with full visibility into traffic flows
Supports NetFlow v5, v9 and IPFIX
Central management
Load balance and export NetFlow records to multiple collectors
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Typical Network Visibility Fabric DeploymentsSecOps deployment monitoring both sides of the DMZ; record attacks, ID compromised data
NetOps deployment monitoring north-south traffic; ID inbound/outbound application issues
NetOps deployment monitoring east-west traffic; ID internal application performance issues
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SevOne PAS is also available as virtual image (vPAS)
Provides central management when multiple NGAs and DNCs are deployed
Ingest NetFlow data from the NGAs via the DNCs or from the switches and routers in the network
vPAS Centralized Deployment
Dedicated NetFlow Collector
EndaceFlow NetFlow Generator
EndaceProbe Central Management Server (CMS)
Access
Data Center Row 1 Data Center Row n
SNMP
Netflow
Core
vPAS
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Use Case: Large Enterprise Deployment
Rapid bandwidth growth in customer network
Existing analytics products unable to scale
Customer needs more visibility to determine if SLAs are met
NetOps team efficiency was degrading as their visibility decreased
Endace/SevOne provides packet visibility and performance insight across all their large global data centers and border gateway routers
Scalable up to 100Gbps visibility solution
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Complete, real-time and end-to-end visibility
Endace and SevOne provide a highly scalable solution
Reduces cost and helps eliminate downtime
…. How can we help you with visibility into your network?
Conclusions
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Please submit your questions via BrightTALK.
We will respond in the order they are received.
Q&A
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