Here's a recent forum thread that discussed the same exact topic. You might find some insight: http://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/3aip3p/data_center_network_monitoring/
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Mitch Howards <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > Was wondering what folks are using to monitor traffic > on their networks. Looking into Ixia and APCON devices for dedup and > other filtering features as well as passive fiber TAPs to capture the > traffic. > > How are folks handling TAP'ing large data center > networks? TAPs at the "distribution layer" would be the best fit for my > network but that would require a ton of passive fiber TAPs for the > incoming fibers to the distribution switches. The end goal is to not > only capture the north-south traffic on the network but also east-west > traffic. It seems more efficient to just use SPANs but there are many > limitations using SPANs. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > Mitch
