Case Study: Large U.S. Local Government achieves reliable, cost-effective VM-to-VM traffic visibility with Gigamon

Large U.S. Local Government Uses Gigamon for Reliable and Cost-Effective Hybrid Network Traffic Monitoring

A large U.S. county government serving a metro of about three million—managing close to 200 sites and 38 departments with a network team of nine—relied heavily on VMware VMs (95–98% of servers) and struggled with monitoring blind spots. The team needed reliable traffic acquisition for East‑West VM‑to‑VM communications, packet de‑duplication to avoid tool overload, greater cost-efficiency, and a fast procurement turnaround.

They deployed Gigamon’s GigaVUE TA Series in the datacenter and GigaVUE Cloud Suite with NetVUE for the VMware environment (de‑duplication and NetFlow), beginning with two GigaVUE‑TA40 chassis. The solution delivered consistent VM traffic visibility, removed monitoring gaps, reduced duplicate packets, sped up tool evaluations and proofs‑of‑concept, and proved cost‑effective—yielding time savings and a clear ROI that the team says they haven’t found from other vendors.