White paper

On October 7th, 2009, NetScout Systems announced nGenius Virtual Agent, a new performance data source product that will extend the visibility provided by NetScout’s nGenius® Service Assurance Solution inside virtualized server hosts. The nGenius Virtual Agent is designed to be installed as a guest VM within a virtualized server, and will operate either in full probe analysis mode or as a virtual tap, harvesting traffic for export to an external extended Deep Packet Capture engine – the nGenius InfiniStream appliance. Based on their longstanding packet-flow probe technology, the new product represents a software-based instrumentation option for NetScout customers who wish to extend the solution’s visibility into virtualized data centers. nGenius Virtual Agent itself comes at no extra cost for customers with nGenius Performance Manager and is available immediately for VMware ESX and ESXi deployments.