Network Telemetry Lab -Physical/Virtual Layer

Vibranium | Physical + Virtual Stack Diagram

⚡ Vibranium — Physical + Virtual Stack

ASUS ROG Strix G16 • VMware Workstation Pro • Network Telemetry Lab

🖥️ PHYSICAL HOST — Vibranium
AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX • 16c/32t 32GB DDR5-5200 RAM 1TB NVMe SSD NVIDIA RTX 5070 8GB
🧬 VMware Workstation Pro — Type‑2 Hypervisor
└─ VIRTUAL MACHINES (VMnet1: 192.168.45.0/24) ─┘
jeannie
Fedora 43
4 vCPU | 8GB RAM
📡 192.168.45.129
📦 Tools | Docker: Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, Postgres, Telegraf
leanna
Rocky Linux 9
2 vCPU | 2GB RAM
⚙️ 192.168.45.130
🤖 Ansible Control Node
sai
Arista vEOS
2 vCPU | 4GB RAM
🌀 192.168.45.131
gNMI + SNMP source
emias
Cisco vIOS
2 vCPU | 4GB RAM
🔷 192.168.45.132
SNMP / NETCONF
milána
Juniper vJunos
2 vCPU | 4GB RAM
🌿 192.168.45.133
Junos telemetry
demiá
Cisco NX-OSv
2 vCPU | 8GB RAM
🏛️ 192.168.45.134
Data Center / gNMI
🔗 VMnet1 (Host-only) all VMs share 192.168.45.0/24 ⚙️ Total vCPUs: 14 / 32 threads → comfortable headroom 📡 Data plane: SNMP/gNMI → jeannie (Kafka broker) 🤖 Control plane: leanna (Ansible) → SSH to all VMs
⬤ Fedora (Tools) ⬤ Rocky (Ansible) ⬤ Arista EOS ⬤ Cisco IOS ⬤ Juniper Junos ⬤ Cisco NX-OS 💡 Physical host resources: 32GB RAM used ~20GB, CPU under-committed