H3C Technologies H3C Intelligent Management Center User Manual
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home page widgets. The administrator can use the display tiling function or home page function of IMC
to customize and view these widgets. For more information about NTA widgets, see "
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Analyzing the network traffic between virtual
machines
More and more enterprises are using virtualization technology. By running multiple virtual machines on
one VMware server, you can improve the physical server usage, reduce the hardware investments, and
reduce the power consumption of the data center.
Virtual machines running on the same VMware server can provide more types of services for network
users at the same time. Each virtual machine has its own IP/MAC address. Therefore, all traffic passing
through the devices can be captured by the device supporting NetStream v5/v9, NetFlow v5/v9, or
sFlow v5, and sent to NTA for processing and analysis. However, because the traffic between virtual
machines is internally forwarded by the vSwitches of the VMware server without passing through the
devices, such traffic cannot be captured and forwarded to NTA for processing and analysis.
IMC provides the probe server for analyzing the traffic between virtual machines.
The IMC probe servers include Linux servers with probe application programs installed and vMON
virtual machines.
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When the Linux servers with probe application programs installed are used, the operators must
create a virtual Linux server on the VMware server and deploy a probe application program on the
virtual Linux server. After the deployment, the operators must set the vSwitch. For information about
using the probe to analyze the traffic between virtual machines, see "
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When the vMON virtual machines are used, the operators must import vMON on the VMware
server, and set the vSwitch after importing the vMON. For more information about the vMON
usage, see vMON Administrator Guide.