View Live Flow

You can view UDP and TCP connections from and to a selected vNIC. In order to view traffic between two virtual machines, you can view live traffic for one virtual machine on one computer and the other virtual machine on a second computer. You can view traffic for a maximum of two vNICs per host and for 5 vNICs per infrastructure.

Viewing live flows can affect the performance of NSX Manager and the corresponding virtual machine.

Procedure

1. In the vSphere Web Client, navigate to Networking & Security > Tools > Flow Monitoring.
2. Click the Live Flow tab.
3. Select the required vNIC.
4. Click Start to begin viewing live flow.
   The page refreshes every 5 seconds. You can select a different frequency from the Refresh Rate drop-down.
5. Click Stop when your debugging or troubleshooting is done to avoid affecting the performance of NSX Manager or the selected virtual machine.