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DANZ Monitoring Fabric™

DANZ Monitoring Fabric is a next-generation network packet broker (NPB) architected for pervasive, network visibility delivering real-time and historical insights into your physical and virtual environments.

DANZ Monitoring Fabric™

DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF) is the industry’s first network packet broker (NPB) that leverages an SDN-controlled fabric using high-performance, merchant-silicon switches, and industry-standard x86 servers to deploy highly scalable, agile, and flexible network visibility and security solutions. Traditional box-based, hardware-centric NPBs are architecturally constrained to meet emerging security and visibility demands of cloud-native data centers. DMF addresses the challenges of traditional NPB solutions, by enabling a scale-out fabric for enterprise-wide security and monitoring, a single pane of glass for operational simplicity, and multi-tenancy for multiple IT (NetOps, DevOps, SecOps) teams.

Features and Benefits

The capabilities that set DANZ Monitoring Fabric™ apart.

Architecture: SDN Software powered Pervasive Network Visibility

High-availability pair of SDN-enabled DMF controllers

VMs or hardware appliances — that enable centralized configuration and simplified monitoring and troubleshooting.

Merchant-silicon switches

Leverages high-performance, production-grade switches from Arista, Dell and Accton.

Significant CAPEX/OPEX Savings

High-performance, integrated NPB + analytics + packet capture solution

Supports rapid detection and analysis of network performance and security anomalies. DMF leverages merchant-silicon switches and commodity hardware to provide significant savings, both capital and operational.

Open, Industry-Standard Hardware Economics

DMF utilizes the underlying cost efficiencies of the high performance, merchant-silicon switches, as well as the industry-standard x86 based appliances. As a result, DMF is much more cost-effective for pervasive, scale-out monitoring.

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Technical Specifications

Hardware and software metrics extracted directly from the official Arista datasheet.

  • Linux KVM
    • Ubuntu 16.04
    • Ubuntu 18.04
    • Ubuntu 20.04
  • VMware ESXi
    • Version 6.5.0
    • Version 6.7.0
    • Version 7.0.2
    • Version 8.0

  • vCPU
    8 vCPU with a minimum scheduling of 2GHz
  • Virtual memory
    32 GB
  • Hard disk
    400 GB
  • Virtual network interface
    1 virtual network interface reachable from physical switches

  • Processor
    Intel Xeon Silver 2 sockets (12 cores)
  • Form Factor (H x W x D)
    1U Rack Server (4.28cm x 43.4cm x 69.3cm)
  • Weight
    42.8 lbs
  • Memory
    4 x 16GB
  • Hard Drive
    2 x 4TB SATA (with RAID support)
  • Networking
    2 x 10Gb
  • Power
    Max Power: 515 watts
    Input Current: 4.7 Amps
    Input Voltage: 100V - 240V auto-sensing
  • Mean Time Between Critical Failures (MTBCF)
    115,000 hours

  • Processor
    Intel Xeon 1 socket (24 cores)
  • Form Factor (H x W x D)
    1U Rack Server
    4.28cm x 43.40cm x 71.30cm
  • Weight
    42.8 lbs
  • Memory
    8 x16GB RDIMM, 5600 MT/s, Single Rank
  • Hard Drive
    1 x 960GB SSD
  • Networking
    4 x 25Gb; 2 x 1Gb
  • Power
    Input Power: 395 watts
    Max Power: 308 watts
    Input Current: 3.7 Amps
    Input Voltage: 100V - 240V auto-sensing
  • Mean Time Between Critical Failures (MTBCF)
    77,400 hours

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