Take Control of Your Multi-Cloud Environment

73% of enterprises use two or more public clouds today. While multi-cloud accelerates digital transformation, it also introduces complexity and risk.

Simplicity Across Clouds Is Rare
91% of executives are looking to improve “consistency across [their] public cloud environments."

Applications Need to Be Modernized
68% of developers want to expand use of modern application frameworks, APIs and services.

Distributed Work Models Are Here to Stay
72% of enterprise employees are working from non-traditional environments.

Security Is a Top-Down Concern
Risk related to security, data and privacy issues remains the #1 multi-cloud challenge.

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VMware Cross-Cloud™ services enable organizations to unlock the potential of multi-cloud with enterprise security and resiliency.

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Multi-Cloud Spotlight

Modernize Faster Across Clouds

Modernize apps faster with a multi-cloud Kubernetes platform to help you build and run all apps consistently across clouds.

Get on a Faster Path to Prod

Build and deploy quickly and securely on any public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes cluster.

Simplify Kubernetes Operations

Build and operate a secure, multi-cloud container infrastructure at scale.

Pair with App Development Experts

Unlock value by modernizing your existing apps and building innovative new products.

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App Platform

Build, run, secure, and manage all of your apps across any cloud with application modernization solutions and guidance from VMware.

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Get recommended practices for DevSecOps teams that desire a more modern app methodology.

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Power Every App on Any Cloud

Migrate to the cloud without recoding your apps. Modernize your infrastructure and operate consistently across the data center, the edge, and any cloud.

Scale Your Business & Innovate

Secure, run, and manage modern apps at scale, across clouds with consistent operations, higher speed, and reduced risks.

Accelerate Cloud Transformation

Modernize infrastructure, ops and apps to reduce cross-cloud complexity, lower costs, and improve security.

Empower a Hybrid Workforce

Enable anywhere work with broad effective security, a frictionless employee experience, and reduced cost and complexity.

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Cloud & Edge Infrastructure

Run enterprise apps at scale with a consistent cloud infrastructure across public clouds, data centers and edge environments.

VMware Research: Multi-Cloud Strategies

Learn why enterprises find multi-cloud strategies critical for success.

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Multi-Cloud & Anywhere Workspace

Empower your employees to be productive from anywhere, with secure, frictionless access to enterprise apps from any device. 

Deliver an Engaging Experience

Put employees first with device choice, flexibility, and seamless, consistent, high-quality experiences.

Secure Today’s Anywhere Workspace

Ease the move to Zero Trust with situational intelligence and connected control points.

Automate the Workspace

Manage to outcomes — not tasks — with intelligent compliance, workflow and performance management.

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Anywhere Workspace

Enable any employee to work from anywhere, anytime with seamless employee experiences.

Remote Work Is No Longer Optional

Shift from supporting remote work to becoming an anywhere organization.

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Multi-Cloud Security & Networking

With connected security that delivers full visibility and frictionless operations, your apps and data are more secure with VMware, in any environment.

Secure & Connect Workloads

Operationalize consistent security and networking across apps, users, and entities with transparency built into our tools.

Protect APIs — the New Endpoints

Increase app velocity and centrally manage, secure, connect, and govern your clusters no matter where they reside.

Be Future-Ready

Get built-in threat intelligence spanning users, endpoints and networks to evolve your protection in a dynamic landscape.

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Security & Networking

Deliver security and networking as a built-in distributed service across users, apps, devices, and workloads in any cloud.

Protect Your Multi-Cloud Environments

Discover the unique characteristics of malware and how to stay ahead of attacks.

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Trusted Advisors on Multi-Cloud Journey

Partners are trusted advisors to guide customers’ journeys to multi-cloud, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control.

Work with a VMware Partner

Partners deliver outcomes with their expertise and VMware technology, creating exceptional value for our mutual customers.

Become a Partner

Together with our partners, VMware is building the new multi-cloud ecosystem positioned to become essential to our customers.

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Partners

With thousands of partners worldwide, we are positioned to help customers scale their business, drive innovation and transform their customer experience.

Working Together with Partners for Customer Success

See how we work with a global partner to help companies prepare for multi-cloud.

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Solutions

Network and Application Monitoring Tool vRealize Network Insight

Monitor and build an optimized, highly-available and secure network infrastructure across clouds with vRealize Network Insight Universal.

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Gain Network Visibility Across Clouds

Securely and confidently manage your network at scale with intelligent application discovery, network optimization, analytics, and troubleshooting with Assurance and Verification.

Application Discovery & Visibility

Gain visibility into your applications and construct meaningful insights. Use machine learning to discover which VMs are part of each app.

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Secure Migration Planning

Leverage granular visibility to speed up network segmentation rollouts and migration plans. Minimize risk by mapping topology so you can migrate to the cloud with confidence.

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Enhanced Troubleshooting

Proactively optimize your network to minimize application latency, improve performance and increase reliability with guided network troubleshooting.

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Use Cases

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App Migration

App & Cloud Security

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Key Features and Benefits

Learn how to build a highly available and secure network infrastructure across a multi-cloud environment with vRealize Network Insight.

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IDC Spotlight: Network Analytics

Discover how network traffic solutions are driving the industry to a more precise network management approach for IT infrastructure.

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Achieve 379% ROI in Three Years

Examine your potential ROI and hear from real world vRealize Network Insight SaaS and on-premises customers in this Forrester report.

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vRealize Network Insight for Dummies

Deliver better business outcomes with intent-based networking.

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vRealize Network Insight Universal provides end-to-end management and helps you gain visibility for NSX, VMware SD-WAN, VMware Cloud on AWS, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and more. Explore related products.

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Advanced

Support baseline visibility including NSX network segmentation, NSX troubleshooting, and virtual flows. Available on premise.

Enterprise

Supports all vRealize Network Insight features and data sources including Assurance and Verification (visibility for VMware SD-WAN requires a separate license). Available on premise.

Cloud

SaaS Feature set of Enterprise edition, delivered as a service. Everything in Enterprise. Location Availability map.

SD-WAN Edition

For end-to-end visibility, add VMware SD-WAN as a data source. Available on premise or SaaS.

Universal

vRealize Network Insight Universal provides all features plus Federation with flexible options to deploy on-premises and as SaaS in a single license.

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Pricing

License Type	On-demand CONTACT SALES	1- to 5-Year Terms CONTACT SALES	Service and Support CONTACT SALES
vRealize Network Insight Universal for SDDC, VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure VMware Solution, Google Cloud VMware Engine, VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution*, Azure, AWS, vCPU support at 1 CPU = 18 vCPU CCU support at 1 CPU = 50 CCU	Not Applicable	Starting from $1,035.00 per CPU/year (paid upfront)	Included
vRealize Network Insight Cloud for SDDC VMware Cloud on AWS* Azure VMware Solution, Google Cloud VMware Engine, VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, Azure, AWS, vCPU support at 1 CPU = 18 vCPU CCU support at 1 CPU = 50 CCU	$0.1761 per CPU/hour (paid monthly)	Starting from $1079.40 per CPU/year (paid upfront)	Included
vRealize Network Insight Cloud for Native Public Cloud (AWS, Azure) (SaaS)	$0.0089 per vCPU/hour (paid monthly)	Starting from $54.60 per vCPU/year (paid upfront)	Included
vRealize Network Insight Cloud for VMware SD-WAN (SaaS)	On-demand not available	Starting from $99 per SD-WAN edge/year based on bandwidth term length (paid upfront)	Included
vRealize Network Insight Cloud Assurance and Verification (SaaS add-on for network devices)	$0.053 per network device/hour (paid monthly)	$348.96 per network device/year (paid upfront)	Included
vRealize Network Insight (On-Premises)	Contact Sales for on-premises pricing

*Each host requires 2 CPU licenses.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is vRealize Network Insight?

vRealize Network Insight is a network monitoring tool that helps you build an optimized, highly available and secure network infrastructure across your cloud environments including NSX, VMware SD-WAN, vSphere, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and VMware Cloud deployments. vRealize Network Insight Universal flexible options to deploy on-premises and as SaaS in a single license. There are other licenses which allow deployment on premises (vRealize Network Insight) and as SaaS (vRealize Network Insight Cloud) separately.

How does vRealize Network Insight work?

vRealize Network Insight collects and analyzes metrics, APIs, configurations, metadata, integrations, telemetry netflow, sFlow, and IPFIX flow traffic, which traverses the infrastructure. Once the traffic is analyzed, vRealize Network Insight provides traffic distribution details and a real-time view of network traffic patterns, and collects configuration details and performance metrics for full visibility.

What are the hardware requirements for running vRealize Network Insight Universal?

See system requirements for technical requirements for running vRealize Network Insight on premises.
vRealize Network Insight Universal is a SaaS offering with flexibility to deploy on-premises or as a SaaS.

The other license for vRealize Network Insight Cloud is a SaaS only offering.

Users can access the product using a web browser. We recommend using the latest Chrome or Firefox browsers for the best experience.

What are the use cases of vRealize Network Insight?

vRealize Network Insight has a number of use cases across networking, applications and security. See the datasheet for full details.

What are the key benefits of vRealize Network Insight?

Key benefits of vRealize Network Insight include:

Application discovery and visibility
Security and migration planning
Better troubleshooting and day 2 ops

What licensing do I need to use Assurance and Verification with vRealize Network Insight?

Assurance and Verification can be used with vRealize Network Insight Universal either on-premises or as a SaaS.

With previous licensing, to use the Assurance and Verification capability on premises, vRealize Network Insight Enterprise is required. For SaaS, use vRealize Network Insight Cloud can be used.

For customers with only devices to monitor and no CPUs, a separate vRealize Network Insight Assurance and Verification license is available.

What cloud providers does vRealize Network Insight Cloud support?

vRealize Network Insight Cloud supports multi-cloud with VMware Cloud on AWS, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Azure VMware Solution, Google Cloud VMware Engine, VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, and vSphere-based on-premises private clouds.

Where is vRealize Network Insight Universal available today?

vRealize Network Insight Universal (SaaS) is available for purchase globally and hosted in US West (Oregon), Canada Central (Montreal), Europe (London), (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). These same locations are available for vRealize Network Insight Cloud (SaaS).

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What is the difference between vRealize Network Insight Universal, vRealize Network Insight, and vRealize Network Insight Cloud?

vRealize Network Insight Universal has the full feature set plus additional capabilities like federation support between different instances as well as SaaS based licensing tracking and compliance. vRealize Network Insight Universal allows customers to start on-premises and then move to SaaS whenever ready or start with SaaS from the beginning.
Both vRealize Network Insight Cloud (SaaS) and vRealize Network Insight (on-premises) offer feature parity. VMware Network Insight Cloud can be deployed as a SaaS. vRealize Network Insight is deployed on-premises. vRealize Network Insight Universal with a single license can be deployed either on-premises or as a SaaS.

Who can benefit from vRealize Network Insight?

Anyone who is looking for better network and security control in their network infrastructure environment will benefit from vRealize Network Insight. Visibility is supported across many platforms, such as NSX, VMware SD-WAN, VMware Cloud on AWS, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition and more.

What ports and protocols does vRealize Network Insight use?

See the full list of ports and protocols used in vRealize Network Insight here.