vRealize Network Insight Reviews

With vRealize Network Insight, I handle virtual virtualization products, particularly with VMware, focusing on Hypervisor and VSAN. I deal mostly with governments, agencies, and medium to large enterprises.

I find that the interface of most VMware products is very similar, which I consider an advantage due to its ease of use compared to other tools like Splunk. The integration with Veeam is also significant. One of the biggest problems with VMware NSX is logging, and vRealize Network Insight helps by providing comprehensive logs.

We use it for network troubleshooting, to provide some capacity reports, and to help generate rules for NSX microsegmentation.

It allows me to really represent network data in a way that management, and non-network engineers, can understand. That makes it easier for me to make my point.

The tool's ease of configuration and use and the availability of information and artifacts through professional services and the web are key factors that customers find valuable.

The IT infrastructure industry is expected to evolve towards a hybrid cloud model in the next five to ten years. In this model, most of the customer's resources reside on-premise within a private cloud setup, such as VMware. Another segment operates within public cloud environments like Azure and AWS, and a portion remains in traditional data centers.

There should be seamless interoperability between public and private clouds. AWS and VMware need to work together to make it possible. Whether users interact with on-premise infrastructure or configure resources in the public cloud, the user experience must be seamless. 

vRealize is used to help our development team by producing detailed reports of the network flow and layout. This includes details like the TCP network keys and the RTT.

It has helped improve our organization by directing the network traffic using SDN.

We are attempting to discover legacy network transactions and convert them to micro-segmentation rules with NSX-T.

It hasn't improved the way our organization functions, yet. It's only been in for two or three months and we're still trying to figure out the best way to pull the data out so that we can start building those firewall rules. But we anticipate that, once that time comes, it will cut massive amounts of time in the process of building those rules.

Our primary use case for the solution is to monitor the end-to-end network aspect of our environment. The performance is really good. We don't have any delays or the like. It gives us really good performance.

vRNI can trace the flow of each and every packet and it is easy for us to troubleshoot all the issues that we do have with the networking. We can trace down the packet to a point where it has been dropped.

It has reduced the time to value, increased performance, and allowed us to more easily manage networks and gain deeper visibility. I see this product as most effective in the troubleshooting area. Every time I try to troubleshoot something it minimizes my troubleshooting time to about one-tenth of what it would otherwise take me.

We used it for our VDI solution to track down all of the network beginning and endpoints.

It allowed us to set up NSX and to do microsegmentation, without all of the pain points of having to determine each port and each IP address that needed to have access, and which ones needed to be blocked.

It also sped up our time to value. It brought the time it took to implement way down to a number of days, instead of a number of weeks.

The primary scope of vRealize Network Insight is deployment of NSX to visualize north-south and east-west traffic. We mainly use it to implement data on the NSX.

It shows the customer what's going on their network. The product makes it much easier to show the customer the needs of their network virtualization. This is interesting because a network admin thinks they know what's going on in their network, but they don't.

We format the network flows with the customer for certain times. After that, we can see what their needs, sizing, etc.