Its just important that with promisc you see only the traffic of other vms
in the same portgroup. So if you have multiple pgs you need a interface for
each portgroup in promisc that you want to monitor.

Am 15.09.2017 21:29 schrieb "Hossam" <[email protected]>:

> Hey Ajit
>
> I Double Enrico, you need to deploy an ubuntu VM, install ntop on it, run
> nProbe on promiscuous interface that listens to the vswitch traffic.
>
> We run some our solutions using nProbe on VM. So I can assure u that works
> fine :)
>
> Sent from my iPhone, apologies for any typo.
>
> On 15. Sep 2017, at 21:16, Enrico Kern <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Sorry but what is the usecase to run it directly on esxi?
>
> You can use netflow/sflow on dvswitch or just from your real switch.
>
> You could also create one vm with ntop and use promisc mode in vmware to
> see all traffic on this vm where you run ntop.
>
> Am 15.09.2017 20:45 schrieb "Ajit Sarnaik" <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hello Folks,
>>
>> We are looking into the possibility of running NTOPNG on ESXi 6.5. Would
>> appreciate if anybody has tried it and their experience with it with
>> regards to the following,
>> - Can we install any of the stable build provided by ntop.org?
>> - If stable build is not compatible with ESXi, effort involved in porting.
>> - Any limitation with regards to protocol and encapsulation
>> - Any other gotchas
>>
>> Appreciate the help.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ajit Sarnaik
>> [email protected]
>>
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