Port mirroring with an external Nexus switch
NOTE
in case of VMware, this configuration supports vMotion, HA, and Fault Tolerant.
Use-case for Port mirroring with an external Nexus switch
In this use-case:
- The customer has selected Exinda for its monitoring and reporting service. The EXN-V is configured as a virtual machine on a hypervisor or as an ESXi hypervisor (for VMware), on a dedicated NIC2 interface, and dedicated virtual switch SW2.
- The EXN-V management port is mapped to SW0 and NIC0.
- The host EXN-V has three four Ethernet interfaces (0-23) with the APP1-3 mapped to SW1 and NIC1 respectively, and connected to the external Nexus Switch.
- The EXN-V with the AUX (ETH1) port is configured for SPAN Port Mirroring and management of the EXN-V.
- The NIC2 interface is connected to an external switch on a port that has been configured to support SPAN port mirroring. It is recommended that this port be dedicated so there is no impact to traffic performance.
- Application virtual workloads (APP1 to 3) are on a separate virtual SW1 and mapped to NIC1.
- NIC1 is directly attached to the external Nexus switch.