Gigamon® Visibility Fabric™ Overview and Advanced Implementation Bundle (GVFAIBDL) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: Gigamon Solution Overview

  • Adoption trends
  • Key value propositions
  • Product family overview

Module 2: Planning and First Use

  • Selecting traffic sources
  • Initial setup of GigaVUE H Series

Module 3: Packet Distribution

  • Aggregate, replicate, filter
  • Flow Mapping
  • Pass-all, port pair, tool-mirror

Module 4: GigaSMART Overview

  • De-duplication
  • Packet slicing
  • Time stamping
  • Data masking
  • Source port labeling
  • Header stripping
  • Tunneling
  • Adaptive Packet Filtering
  • GTP correlation
  • NetFlow generation
  • FlowVUE®
  • SSL decryption
  • Load Balancing

Module 5: Introduction to Implementing Gigamon in Cloud Environments

  • GigaVUE-VM Overview
  • GigaVUE-AWS Overview

Module 6: Introduction to Managing a Visibility Fabric™

  • GigaVUE-FM (Fabric Manager)

Module 7: System Maintenance and Clustering

  • Backup and Restore
  • Upgrading and Licensing
  • Cluster design
  • Clustering configuration
  • Troubleshooting

Module 8: Advanced Flow Map Logic

  • Case studies 1 and 2

Module 9: RBAC, Licensing and Upgrading

  • Implementing Role Based Access and User Accounts
  • Gigamon feature licensing
  • Upgrading

Module 10: Using Mapping Templates

  • Flow Map templates

Module 11: Exploring and Configuring GigaSMART Features, Part 1

  • De-duplication
  • Packet slicing
  • Time stamping
  • Data masking
  • Source port labeling
  • Header stripping

Module 12: Exploring and Configuring GigaSMART Features, Part 2

  • APF
  • ASF
  • GTP Correlation
  • Tunneling
  • Load Balancing

Module 13: Exploring and Configuring GigaSMART Features, Part 3

  • Tunneling
  • NetFlow Generation
  • FlowVUE
  • SSL Decryption

Module 14: Security and Inline Monitoring Implementation

  • Inline SSL
  • GigaSecure
  • Inline Bypass Overview
  • Advanced Inline Bypass

Module 15: GigaVUE-VM Installation and Mapping

  • Connecting to vCenter
  • Deploying GigaVue-VM
  • Installation Best Practices
  • Virtual Rules Configuration

Module 16: GigaVUE-AWS Implementation

  • AWS Implementation Test-Drive

Labs

  • Online help
  • Port behavior setup
  • Pass-all configuration
  • Adding a VLAN tag to ingress traffic
  • Simple flow map configuration
  • More complex flow map configuration with rule prioritization
  • Shared collector configuration
  • User-Defined Attribute (UDA) filter
  • Tool mirror
  • Replication and egress filtering
  • Hybrid ports
  • Tool GigaStream
  • Configure Port-Pairs to operate like a TAP
  • Backup and Restore Configurations
  • Clustering Nodes
  • Remove all configurations from the GigaVUE node
  • GigaSMART Service
    • Tunneling
    • Header Stripping
    • Packet Slicing
    • Masking
    • Source ID
  • GigaSMART Application
    • De-duplication
    • Load Balancing
    • Adaptive Packet Filtering
    • Application Session Filtering
    • NetFlow Generation
    • FlowVUE
    • GTP Correlation
    • SSL Decryption
  • Inline Bypass Configuration
  • GigaVUE-VM Install
  • GigaVUE-AWS Test-Drive

Case Studies

  • Designing a Gigamon Solution for a Small Campus
  • A Gigamon Design for Cloud