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vSTREAM for Service Assurance

HIGHLIGHTS The NETSCOUT® vSTREAM complements exiting Adaptive Service Intelligence® (ASI)-based
instrumentation to provide the same smart data visibility within the cloud and virtualized
• vSTREAM® for private / public cloud and infrastructures that is already possible in physical environments. This provides superior end-to-
virtual environments end analytics, adding east-west traffic monitoring to help identify performance problems and
security issues wherever they occur. Key functionality of the vSTREAM includes:
• Monitors east-west traffic to provide
smart data for smart analytics by • Provides insight into packet traffic and application workloads, providing IT organizations
nGeniusONE® Service Assurance platform visibility for service assurance, performance management, and cybersecurity purposes
and virtual nGeniusONE • Supported by nGeniusONE Service Assurance platform and virtual nGeniusONE for views of
end-to-end call trace data, network-wide KPIs, alerts, network and application error details,
• Part of Smart Edge Monitoring solution
specialized service monitors, and packet decodes
for service edge and end-user experience
monitoring • Used for proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, baselines, and dependencies to protect end-
user experience, as well as the reliability and availability of application and network services
• Supports public cloud partners including
AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI
Deployment
• Supports VMware™, OpenStack™,
From a use case perspective, vSTREAM can be used in Software-Defined Networks (SDNs),
Hyper-V, and KVM private cloud
private and public cloud, co-locations (co-lo), and branches. The different scenarios vSTREAM
• Supports installation on target servers can be deployed include a dedicated virtual appliance, an agent installed on a target virtual
running Linux, Windows Server machine, or as a container/pod. Supported in the world’s largest and most demanding hybrid
• Supports Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift cloud environments, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (Azure), Google
Cloud Platform (GCP), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), vSTREAM is both easy to deploy
and easy to manage.

For virtualized environments, vSTREAM supports deployment in VMware ESXi, NSX-V, and
NSX-T environments, OpenStack, Microsoft Hyper-V, and KVM private cloud, providing visibility
to critical network data that is lost when key network functions and services are virtualized. It
is ideal for real-time monitoring of business-critical traffic running either locally or on a host or
as an aggregation point for multiple hosts. For container networks, vSTREAM supports Docker,
Kubernetes (K8S), and Red Hat OpenShift.

The agent form of vSTREAM can be installed on bare-metal or can be co-resident with the
workload, running in the same Operating System (OS) as the target application(s).

vSTREAM can be deployed in tandem with InfiniStreamNG® software and hardware appliances
to provide seamless, end-to-end, ASI-based analysis across the entire network and application
service infrastructure.

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options, including virtual appliance, agent, and container/pod.

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SPECIFICATIONS nGeniusONE Service

Assurance Platform
vSTREAM Virtual Appliance
nGeniusONE is a real-time information
Hypervisors VMware vSphere ESXi Standard, Enterprise or Enterprise Plus platform that provides a single pane of
running ESXi v7.0, v6.7, or v6.5 glass to view the data, voice, and video
Linux KVM 2.0.0, QEMU 2.0, service delivery performance to manage
OpenStack OSP 13 (Queens) and OSP 16 (Train) both the availability and quality of the
Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019) user’s experience.

vSwitches VMware vSphere VSS & VDS NETSCOUT’s Smart Edge Monitoring leverages
Open vSwitch (OVS) the vSTREAM virtual appliance with smart data
AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring from packet monitoring to provide east-west
GCP Packet Mirroring traffic visibility in virtualized environments,
as well as, service edge monitoring at the
Public Clouds Amazon Web Services (AWS) – AWS Marketplace Certified application server edges.
Microsoft Azure Certified – Azure Marketplace
Google Cloud Platform Available on both hardware and virtual
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Certified platforms, nGeniusONE leverages NETSCOUT
smart data as a universal source for providing
Virtual Interfaces 1 Management and up to 4 Monitoring smarter analytics for end-to-end visibility
throughout private, virtualized, public, and
Network Optimization Built with Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) hybrid cloud environments.
PCI Passthrough support
SR-IOV support
ASI Technology
vCPU 1 or more (depending on configuration)
ASI technology transforms
Memory 2 GB RAM or more (depending on configuration) wire traffic into smart data,
providing real-time visibility
vSTREAM Disk 100 GB into user experience for
the most advanced and
Packet Capture Disk Configurable
adaptable information
platform to ensure security, manage risk, and
vSTREAM Agent drive service performance.

Guest Operating Systems Red Hat / CentOS 7.0 through 7.5

Oracle Linux 8.x
Amazon Linux 4.9+, Amazon Linux2 (all versions)
Ubuntu 18 LTS, 20 LTS
SUSE 12

vCPU 1 or more (depending on configuration)

vSTREAM Disk N/A – Uses host OS Storage

vSTREAM Container/Pod

Environment Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service,

Azure Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift

vCPU 1 or more (depending on configuration)

vSTREAM Disk N/A – Uses host OS Storage

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