Our network consists mostly of 10 Gbit/s switched backbones to the internet.
On the network we have a cluster of Proxmox VM hosts with around a 100 VMs.
We have the need to do traffic accounting, per VM, in the most efficient manner.
We don't need to count protocol traffic flowing via internet, but merely the bytes-in and bytes-out.
My switch specialist recommended VXLAN port accounting instead of Netflow, as Netflow appears to be very resource heavy when you're doing bulk.
I need to do this en-mass to assist with network balancing - we need to understand which clients are using a lot more gigabytes/terabytes than others so that we can route their traffic properly.
I am open to using any tools. I'm happy to use Zabbix, Nagios, Cacti, LibreNMS, etc.
I just need basic traffic accounting for many VMs. Any tips will be appreciated.
On the network we have a cluster of Proxmox VM hosts with around a 100 VMs.
We have the need to do traffic accounting, per VM, in the most efficient manner.
We don't need to count protocol traffic flowing via internet, but merely the bytes-in and bytes-out.
My switch specialist recommended VXLAN port accounting instead of Netflow, as Netflow appears to be very resource heavy when you're doing bulk.
I need to do this en-mass to assist with network balancing - we need to understand which clients are using a lot more gigabytes/terabytes than others so that we can route their traffic properly.
I am open to using any tools. I'm happy to use Zabbix, Nagios, Cacti, LibreNMS, etc.
I just need basic traffic accounting for many VMs. Any tips will be appreciated.
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