Discover, Optimize and Troubleshoot App Security and Network Connectivity
VMware vRealize Network Insight helps you build an optimized, highly available and secure network infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It provides network visibility and analytics to accelerate micro-segmentation security, minimize risk during application migration, optimize network performance and confidently manage and scale NSX, SD-WAN Velocloud, and Kubernetes deployments.
vRealize Network Insight Overview
vRealize Network Insight Overview
Discover how vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent networking and security operations from the data center to the cloud and to the branch.
Total Economic Impact of vRealize Network Insight
Forrester Consulting conducted a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study of vRealize Network Insight. Read what they uncovered.
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vRealize Network Insight Cloud
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vRealize Network Insight Summary of Benefits
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Hundreds of customers have adopted vRealize Network Insight to drive Intelligent SDDC Networking and Security Operations in their data centers.
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VMware vRealize Network Insight and VMware NSX have provided Alliant with the tools to secure their digital future.
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Using vRealize Network Insight to Manage VMware's Private Cloud
Learn how VMware is using vRealize Network Insight for micro-segmentation and datacenter management.
SPOTLIGHT
Announcing vRealize Network Insight 5.2
Announcing vRealize Network Insight 5.2
vRealize Network Insight 5.2 enables end-to-end network visibility, troubleshooting, and analytics across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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vRealize Network Insight Search Query Posters
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Key Features and Benefits of vRealize Network Insight
Key Features and Benefits of vRealize Network Insight
Build a highly available and secure network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments.
What are the Use Cases for vRealize Network Insight?
Network Visibility and Analytics
- Visibility for hybrid and multi-clouds as well as SD-WAN, supporting VMware NSX, VeloCloud, VMware Cloud on AWS and Microsoft Azure
- Discover connectivity between the overlay and underlay networks
- Analyze Traffic and Apps across the hybrid clouds
Plan App Security and Cloud Migration
- Discover Apps (VMs, Containers), Identify traffic patterns
- Plan Security: Recommend Firewall policies, micro-segmentation apps
- Troubleshoot security for hybrid applications across VMs, Containers and clouds
- Map dependencies to reduce risk during app migration
Optimize and troubleshoot virtual and physical networks
- Reduce mean time to repair (MTTR) for application-connectivity issues
- Optimize application performance by eliminating network bottlenecks
- Manage and Scale across multiple NSX managers
FAQ
vRealize Network Insight
What ports and protocols does vRealize Network Insight use?
See the full list of ports and protocols used in vRealize Network Insight here.
What are the software requirements for running vRealize Network Insight?
vRealize Network Insight requires a Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox Web browser. See the system requirements page for further details.
What are the hardware requirements for running vRealize Network Insight?
The minimum resource requirements for vRealize Network Insight Platform OVA are:
- 8 cores — Reservation 4096 Mhz
- 32 GB RAM — Reservation — 16GB
- 750 GB — HDD, Thin provisioned
The minimum resource requirements for vRealize Network Insight Proxy OVA are:
- 4 cores — Reservation 2048 Mhz
- 10 GB RAM — Reservation — 5GB
- 150 GB — HDD, Thin provisioned
See our system requirements page for more information.
How can I try out vRealize Network Insight?
Test drive VMware vRealize Network Insight with the vRealize Network Insight Hands-on Lab, where you can evaluate the features and learn about micro-segmentation. Hands-on labs are free, up and running on your browser in minutes, and require no installation.
How do I observe real-time performance using vRealize Network Insight?
vRealize Network Insight is IPFIX-based, so it’s not meant to be a real-time monitor. For application monitoring, consider VMware Wavefront.
Can vRealize Network Insight work as a flow analyzer?
Yes, you can use vRealize Network Insight to analyze traffic flows in your data center. At least two hours of data collection must occur before starting the flow analysis. Follow these steps:
- Specify the scope of the analysis. For example, if you are interested in flows of all virtual machines in a cluster, select Cluster from the dropdown menu. You can alternately select all virtual machines connected to a VLAN or VXLAN.
- Select the entity name for which you want to analyze the flows.
- Select the duration, and click Analyze.
See the Analyze Traffic Flows document for more information.
RESOURCES
Learn and Evaluate
- vRealize Network Insight Datasheet
- vRealize Network Insight FAQ
- vRealize Network Insight Solution Brief
- eBook: Boost App Performance with vRNI and VMware-SD-WAN by VeloCloud
- eBook: Migrating Existing Apps to the Cloud with vRNI
- Infographic: 5-Step Guide to Micro-Segmentation
- Infographic: The Benefits of Network Virtualization
- How To solve The Virtual + Physical Network Puzzle and California Department of Water Resources case study
- See more customer success stories
- vRealize Network Insight, NSX and Palo Alto Networks for Micro-Segmentation
- Infographic: Accelerating your journey to the cloud with VMware Network Insight
- Forrester Total Economic Impact of vRealize Network Insight
- Forrester TEI Infographic
- vRealize Network Insight Deep Dive
- Using vRealize Network Insight for VMware Cloud on AWS
- vRealize Network Insight Security