Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Chapter 2
20 Sniffer Portable Professional
Sniffer Portable Professional Application Coexistence with other
Products
NetScout Systems does not support installation of Sniffer Portable
Professional on a machine running any of the following NetScout
products:
Sniffer Global application, Sniffer Portable (legacy versions),
Sniffer Pro, or Netasyst
Sniffer Distributed Agent
Notes on Installing in Virtual Environments
Installing the Sniffer Portable Professional application in a virtual
environment (such as those provided by VMware) requires some
additional configuration. Keep in mind the following:
Only Ethernet adapters are supported. Wireless 802.11
adapters are not supported in virtualized environments.
Bridged networking mode is the only supported mode.
Select an Ethernet card in your virtual operating system in the
VMNet0 virtual network from Edit > Virtual Network Settings >
Host Virtual Network Mapping.
Make sure the Ethernet card drivers for VMNet0 are properly
installed by selecting the VM > Install VMware Tools command.
Running this command will select the correct drivers from the host
machine automatically. However, keep in mind that Sniffer
Portable Professional’s File > Adapter Settings dialog box will
show the device name as VMware Accelerated AMND PCNet
Adapter rather than the name of the bridged adapter.
The VMWare Virtual Network acts as a 1000-Mbps virtual hub with
uplink based on the speed of the actual physical port to which it is
bridged (100 or 1000 Mbps). Sniffer Portable Professional detects
the virtual network’s 1000-Mbps speed and will report this as the
network speed, regardless of the physical port’s actual speed.
Because of this, when the physical port’s speed is only 100 Mbps
instead of the 1000 Mbps detected, utilization calculations reported
in Sniffer Portable Professional will be less than the actual
utilization by a factor of ten.