Why Asterfusion® Tapplet?

• Targeted Traffic Collection

  Asterfusion® Tapplet can support traffic collection on both east-west inter-server traffic and server internal virtual traffic for specific tenants. Coupled with Asterfusion PX NPB switches, Asterfusion® Tapplet can provide a comprehensive cloud data center traffic collection solution.

• Tenant Information Extraction and Tagging

  Asterfusion® Tapplet supports the extraction and tagging of tenant information (e.g. VLAN-ID & VxLAN-VNI) from collected packets, which will not only enable traffic collection, distribution and preprocessing on the per-tenant basis but also can reduce the workload of back-end analytical systems.

• Pre-processing of collected traffic

  Asterfusion® Tapplet supports not only the basic packet functions such as five-tuple filtering, packet truncation, time stamping, and priority tagging but also various data pre-processing functions on collected packets. This combination of basic packet functions and data pre-processing functions would enable Asterfusion® Tapplet to fit in nicely to various application deployment scenarios.

• Status monitoring and overload protection

  Asterfusion® Tapplet can constantly monitor its own status; if the loading of packet collection and preprocessing exceeds Tapplet’s processing capacity, Asterfusion® Tapplet will stop packet preprocessing and issue an alarm.

• Automatic Deployment

  Asterfusion® Tapplet supports the automatic deployment through an atomic-level REST API interface; Tapplet NPB traffic collection policy can be configured and managed through Asterfusion Fabric Controller, AFC. At the same time, Asterfusion® Tapplet can also provide a service-level REST API for cloud data center operating systems and hence, can fully comply to standard scheduling and automated management procedures in the cloud data centers.