Cisco Tetration Analytics

The Most Comprehensive Data Center Visibility and Analysis in Real Time, at Scale - Seite 2

Tetration is designed to help enable pervasive and complete visibility across the data center using either server software sensors that require very low overhead, network hardware sensors that monitor packet-by-packet meta data, or both combined for the most complete solution. Tetration executes advanced data center analytics in real time and presents actionable analysis with easy to understand visuals. Tetration delivers information critical for data center operations, such as: application insights, automated white list policy recommendations, policy simulation and impact analysis, compliance management, and network flow forensics.

Tetration is like a time machine for the data center, enabling organizations to rewind what has happened in the past, view what is happening in the present in real time, and model what could happen:

• Model a change before it's executed to understand the impact on applications to enable informed operational decisions; 
• Validate that policy changes have actually been applied and taken full effect;
• Do real-time and historical policy simulation -- replay what happened in the network at any time, with long term data storage capabilities.

Early Field Trial: Cerner Corporation
"We were delighted to engage with Cisco to gain experience with Tetration as an early field trial participant," said Brett Jones, director of infrastructure technology for Cerner. "With the Tetration Analytics trial, we better understand application behavior and dependencies across our data center." Cerner is a global leader in health care technology. Cerner's health information technologies connect people, information and systems at more than 20,000 facilities worldwide.

How it works
Software sensors are installed on end hosts: either virtual machine or bare metal servers. In the first Tetration release, software sensors support Linux and Windows server hosts, while hardware sensors are embedded in the ASICs of Cisco Nexus 9200-X and Nexus 9300-EX network switches to collect flow data at line rate from all the ports. A single Tetration appliance will monitor up to one million unique flows per second. Both software and hardware sensors communicate the flow information in real time to the Tetration Analytics platform. The platform can be installed in any data center with any servers and any network switches.