Traffic Mirroring

The Traffic Mirroring feature clones and encapsulates ingress or egress traffic from a Virtual Device network interface. The system then routes this mirrored traffic to another Virtual Device within your Equinix deployment, or delivers it over Fabric to external destinations like a colocation facility or a connected Cloud Service Provider.

Prerequisites

• A mirror device
• A virtual connection between the mirror device and the mirror target

Create a Mirror Session

1. Sign in to the Equinix Customer Portal and navigate to Network Edge.

2. From the Network Edge menu, select Traffic Mirroring.

3. Click Start Traffic Mirroring.

   

4. In the Traffic Mirroring Session Details section, enter:

   

• Session Name
• Session Description
• ERSPAN session ID

5. Click Select the Mirror Source.

   

6. Select a device and click Select Mirroring Source

   

7. Select a Mirror Interface and click Next.

   

8. In the Traffic Mirroring Device section, decide if you want to mirror an existing device or a newly created device.

   

• If you have an existing device to mirror, select Existing Virtual Device, select a device, and then click Select Mirroring Source.

• If you want to mirror a new device, select Create a New Network Edge Virtual Device, enter a name for the new device, a tunnel source IP address, and a tunnel destination IP address.

9. Click Next

10. In the Configure the Traffic Mirroring section, set the schedule:

• Enter Start Date and Start Time.
• Enter End Date and End Time.
• Select the Time Zone.

11. In the Filters section, define the mirror filters by selecting:

• None
• Select Existing Filter - select an existing filter from the drop-down menu.

• Add a New Filter - enter a filter name and set the rule parameters.

12. Click Next.

13. In the Review and Start the Traffic Mirroring section, review your session and click Submit.