Hi Hal,
We have a client that can no longer grow in physical resources. However, in theory it has no limits to grow in a virtual scheme.
Your infrastructure area I request the requirements under this scheme that requires APM, for the case of the TIM we are in unknown territory, since our facilities have always considered physical components (TIM).
Today it has 4 TIM's with only one interface each one and, incorrectly, each interface is given the same mirrored traffic since production. It does not have hardware that can separate the traffic and order it to more than one interface and to the different times. It has been very difficult to convey to him that the good processing in the TIM does not depend only on the processing capacity of the network card. It has a very high percent to dropped packets.
Thanks everyone to the responses