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Encapsulated Remote Mirroring enables you to monitor traffic on multiple network interfaces or VLANs and send the monitored traffic to one or more destinations.
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Mirrored External Network Traffic Monitoring with Encapsulated Remote Mirroring
By default, encapsulated remote mirroring on the virtual switch uses the management VMkernel port of the ESXi host as the encapsulation source IP address.
In the steps below, the mirroring source and mirroring destination are the following:
  • Mirroring source: Physical switch that forwards mirrored traffic
  • Mirroring destination: Deep Discovery Inspector

Procedure

  1. Configure the mirroring source to forward encapsulated remote mirrored traffic.
    Important
    Important
    Ensure that switch is able to route traffic to the encapsulated remote mirroring destination IP address that you configure on Deep Discovery Inspector in the next step.
  2. Configure the mirroring destination to receive encapsulated remote mirrored traffic.
    1. In the Deep Discovery Inspector console, go to Administration → System Settings → Network Interface.
      The Network Interface screen appears.
    2. Locate a data port, and then click the right arrow (right-arrow.png) at the beginning of the row.
    3. Select Encapsulated Remote Mirroring.
    4. Specify the encapsulated remote mirroring destination address.
    5. Click Save.