network analysis tool

[Muhammed AKYUZ]

Hi,

We are facing some problems on our Datacanter but it is very hard to determine it is related to server or network device. We are looking for a software or appliance that collects all or part of the traffic with SPAN and analyse the traffic. Do you suggest anything for this?

[pmpesha]

Try Cisco NAM or scrutinizer.

[Leo Laohoo]

Fluke OptiView XG

http://www.flukenetworks.com/products/optiviewsup0174sup-xg-network-analysis-tablet

[hleschin]

I think that depends on how large is your datacenter, what traffic rates have to be considered and what your budget is.

We have ~8000 logical servers and many hosts with 10Gig nics in our DC .We use the Opnet AppResponse Xpert (formerly known as ACE live) and we are happy with that. It's an appliance with several 10Gig nics and a good (and complex) analysing software.