Category: Virtualization

Lancope Releases StealthWatch 6.2

Lancope has just released the next generation of the StealthWatch System, version 6.2. StealthWatch 6.2 has been designed to allow customers to take advantage of new technology trends (e.g. virtualization, user mobility and BYOD) without sacrificing the network visibility and integrity that are core to our solution. READ MORE

The Virtual Blind Spot Video

CTO Adam Powers presents "The Virtual Blind Spot" which is about visibility and monitoring the virtual network. If you only have 22 minutes to jump into Netflow and Virtual Servers then this is the perfect place to start your study. Adam starts out with a description of  “We can't manage what we can't see..” and touches the key topics of virtualization sprawl, loss of traditional security management tools, difficulty in segregation of digital assets and management of virtualized assets. Each of these conditions help create the “Virutal Blind Spot”. After establishing the problems surrounding monitoring the virtual network, Adam presents… READ MORE

Lancope’s StealthWatch System Now Integrates with Citrix AppFlow

Earlier this year, Citrix introduced AppFlow to provide an open standard for capturing application flow records. Lancope is excited to see more networking and security device vendors adding or enhancing support for flow data in their products. The more flow data we can collect and analyze with StealthWatch, the more complete network visibility we can provide to our customers to help ensure high levels of performance and security. An extension of IPFIX, AppFlow delivers application layer visibility across public and private cloud environments to provide business intelligence for web-based transactions. By seamlessly leveraging AppFlow records from Citrix NetScaler, StealthWatch provides… READ MORE

NetFlow Coming to Microsoft’s Hyper-V Thanks to Cisco’s Nexus-1000v

I mentioned last week that VMware's vSphere 5.0 will be supporting NetFlow v5. Well according to this article from Cisco, Microsoft's Hyper-V technology will also soon support NetFlow via the Nexus 1000v. Good news indeed! Lancope has long touted the importance of flow-based monitoring in the virtual space. Flows provide an excellent mechanism for gaining visibility into the inner workings of the virtual environment. Citrix has Open vSwitch for NetFlow, VMware has its own native NetFlow v5 support (or Lancope's FlowSensor VE), and now Microsoft has flow support through the 1000v. So the bottom line: If you have Hyper-V and the… READ MORE

VMware: vSphere 5.0 Supports NetFlow v5

Just had this VMware blog entry forwarded to me. Looks like vSphere 5.0 will provide native support for NetFlow v5! Previous versions of VMware supported NetFlow but the feature was considered "experimental" and few VMware admins actually enabled it. The NetFlow support in vSphere 5.0 will be production quality and fully supported so we should see much broader enablement. This quick diagram from their blog post describes the process... So congrats to VMware for stepping up and adding full support for NetFlow. Unfortunately it's NetFlow v5 which means you won't get MAC addresses, latency stats, VM names, application information, HTTP… READ MORE