7. VTAP appliances One of the biggest asks from networking and security profes-
sionals has been for the ability to collect and analyze network traffic on Azure,
beyond what the Azure Network Monitor provides. Now, within developer pre-
view, Azure virtual network TAP (Terminal Access Point) provides continuous
mirroring of virtual machine network traffic to a packet collector or analytics tool
(provided by a third-party network virtual appliance), without having to use
agents.
Azure Load
Balancer
Tools
NSG
Network
Packet Broker
Web Tier Subnet
Security
Operations
NSG
Monitoring
Subnet
SQL
Application
Operations
Network
Operations
Virtual
Network
TAP
App Tier Subnet
NSG
Forensics
VM Production Traffic
VM Mirrored Traffic
Figure 11: Virtual Network TAP
Constant Evolution
To use public cloud services at scale, an organization must constantly evolve, adapt and
integrate new services based on their internal organizational structures and enterprise
architecture standards. This constant evolution can help organizations accelerate their
move from pilot projects to production, improve and enhance operational processes and
onboard modern application architectures and development techniques, or simplify the
architectures of their public cloud environments. Is your organization constantly
evolving?
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