I’ve had the opportunity to work alongside two completed VeloCloud deployments over the past 6 months. This blog covers what I’ve learned about the setup and prerequisites within VMware’s VeloCloud interface and Plixer’s Scrutinizer interface for metadata/IPFIX analysis via flow collection. Once setup is complete, I will highlight how Plixer’s Scrutinizer platform uses that data …
As enterprises seek to expand 5G/LTE or MPLS networks, they must set SLAs. Inside of those SLAs, key performance indicators (KPIs) drive the progression of the network. With the expansion of SD-WAN deployments, network administrators need assurance that the KPIs of branch sites align with their current infrastructure. Tracking the performance of how the applications …
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SD-WAN is gaining tremendous traction as more and more organizations deploy it to replace traditional branch routers. The two biggest reasons for this are ease of use and cost reduction. Saving time and money is a great start, but widespread adoption first requires a solution to a broader set of real-world problems.
While investigating our SD-WAN value proposition with customers, I worked with one client who has Cisco IWAN for 250 branches uses Scrutinizer to monitor it all. I learned from the customer that they had to have the following SD-WAN performance reports.
With the oncoming storm that is Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN), the way we typically monitor our devices is going to change. Lately I have been seeing a lot traction around Velocloud IPFIX support. This blog will go over what SD-WAN is and how we can use Velocloud’s IPFIX exports to help monitor this new infrastructure. SD-WAN …
Cloud service adoption rates are showing no signs of slowing down. Recently, Gartner wrote that over the course of 2016, the global cloud application services market would grow by 21.7 percent, reaching $38.9 Billion.