Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Datacenter Packet Capture Options

Hello,

I have several datacenters that all use Nexus core switches. I have long wanted to get proper packet capture appliances for our datacenters, but ever year it is shaved off the budget. Since Nexus does not have a built in packet capture feature the way Catalyst does, I was wondering what solutions some of you engineers use.

In leu of a more expensive purpose build packet capture system, I am entertaining the idea of just putting a big cheap server in each datacenter, putting it on a span port and running Wireshark on it.

Anyone make a poor mans packet capture device? Looking for opinions/options.



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