vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) | Network Monitoring Tool

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.

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Use Cases

Multi-Cloud

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 477% ROI in Three Years

Examine your potential ROI and hear from real world vRealize Network Insight 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 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 Cloud

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 or SaaS.

SD-WAN Edition

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

Assurance and Verification

For monitoring of additional network devices, add Assurance and Verification. Available on premise or SaaS.

VMware vRealize Network Insight for Desktop

Offered for monitoring Desktop or VDI Concurrent Connection User (CCU)

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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 Cloud for SDDC VMware Cloud on AWS* Azure VMware Solution*, Google Cloud VMware Engine, VMware Cloud on Dell EMC (SaaS)	$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 Premise)	Contact Sales for on premise 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, VMware Cloud on AWS and Kubernetes deployments. It is available on premises and as SaaS.

How does vRealize Network Insight work?

vRealize Network Insight collects and analyzes IPFIX flow traffic, which traverses the vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS). 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?

See system requirements for technical requirements for running vRealize Network Insight on premises.

vRealize Network Insight Cloud is a SaaS offering, so 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?

To use the Assurance and Verification capability on premises, vRealize Network Insight Enterprise is required. For SaaS, use vRealize Network Insight Cloud.

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, and vSphere-based on-premises private clouds.

Where is vRealize Network Cloud available today?

vRealize Network Insight Cloud is available for purchase globally and hosted in US West (Oregon), Canada Central (Montreal), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

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

Both vRealize Network Insight Cloud (SaaS) and vRealize Network Insight (on-premises) offer feature parity. With these two solutions, VMware offers you a choice of software consumption model. You can consume VMware Network Insight Cloud as SaaS or deploy vRealize Network Insight on-premises within your data center to manage your multi-cloud environment.

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.