This document discusses the challenges of monitoring and ensuring compliance in virtualized data center environments. As data centers continue growing and more workloads move to virtual machines, visibility into virtual network traffic is blocked. Current monitoring tools can only see traffic on physical networks, not inter-VM traffic. This lack of visibility prevents deployments in regulated industries where all traffic must be monitored. An ideal solution would provide complete visibility into virtual networks without performance impacts and integrate with virtualization technologies. The presentation aims to increase understanding of these challenges and explore solutions to unify monitoring across physical and virtual infrastructures.

1. Compliance Challenges in a Virtualized Environment Ran Nahmias Dir. Virtualization & Cloud Solutions

2. Presenter Ran Nahmias Director, Virtualization and Cloud Solutions Net Optics, Inc. Over 15 years of experience in networking, security, desktop and server virtualization in engineering, product management and deployment roles for market leaders such as Check Point Software Technologies, Nice Systems, Microsoft and Net Optics.

4. Virtualization in the Data Center

6. Virtualization deployment increasing year over year in data centers.

7. According to Garter, over 30% of x86 architectureservers workloads running on VMs

9. Physical still bigger than virtual, but the gap is shrinking Monitoring tools

11. Traffic from VMs to external peers visible on wired network

12. Inter-VM traffic hidden from wired network and the deployed toolsMonitoring tools

14. Confidential data entered by patient and processed for verification

15. Flow must adhere to HIPAA Security and Privacy

16. Online store on Web server

17. Customer makes a purchase and provides credit card details

18. Card being processed

20. Regulated, confidential transaction data transferring unmonitoredMonitoring tools 7

22. The virtual network traffic must be “exposed”

23. Turn the RED into BLUEMonitoring tools

25. Virtual environment performance cannot be affected negatively

26. The same stringent compliance regulations must be enforced across the converged infrastructure

28. Conclusion Questions & Answers Four-part series, planned topics Part 1: Compliance Part 2: Security Part 3: Control in an Outsourced Virtual Environment Part 4: Performance Monitoring Stay updated, subscribe to our newsletter: http://www.netoptics.com/about_us/NewsletterReg.asp

29. Thank You Net Optics, Inc. www.netoptics.com 408.737.7777