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vRealize Network Insight 3.4 What’s New

VMware Delivers: Intelligent Operations for Software-Defined Datacenter

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1 vRealize Suite components2 Included with vRealize Suite and ships with NSX

vRealize Operations1

Compute Storage

Hybrid Cloud

Network

& Security

vRealize

Network

Insight

vRealize Log Insight2

Physical/ Virtual/ Cloud Environment

Application

vRealize Business for Cloud1

vRealize Network Insight Delivers Intelligent Operations for Software-Defined Networking and Security across

virtual, physical and multi-cloud environments

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vRealize Network Insight 3.4Intelligent Operations for Network and Security Across Virtual, Physical and Multiple Clouds

VMware vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security. It helps

customers build an optimized, highly-available and secure network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. It

accelerates micro-segmentation planning and deployment, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and

provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments.

Micro segmentation Planning,

Deployment and Compliance

• Plan and measure security impact

with micro segmentation

• Accelerate micro-segmentation

deployment with firewall rules

recommendations.

• Continuously monitor and audit

compliance postures over time.

360 Network Visibility and Troubleshooting

• Quickly troubleshoot connectivity issues

between VMs through powerful path

visualization

• Unify troubleshooting experience across the

virtual and physical infrastructure

• Rapidly identify issues through efficient event

and alert management

Manage and Scale NSX Deployments

• Scale across multiple NSX Managers

with powerful visualizations for

topology and health

• Avoid configuration issues through an

in-product best practices checklist

• Pinpoint and triage issues for quick

resolution with intuitive UI and search

Secure Public Cloud Infrastructure

• Extend micro-segmentation planning to

AWS security groups

• Analyze traffic flows in AWS and get visibility

into AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• Troubleshoot firewall issues between VMs in

AWS

vRealize Network Insight 3.4Intelligent Operations for SDDC Network and Security Across Virtual, Physical and Hybrid Clouds

• vRealize Network Insight

generated events can be exported

as syslog messages for close

integration with log management

products such as vRealize Log

Insight

• Customization of alerts by object

and alert types, as global settings

• Configuration features for

modifying data retention periods

Manage Public Cloud

Security

Troubleshoot across virtual

and physical infrastructure

Customize for maximum

deployment flexibility

• Micro-segmentation planning by AWS

VPC, Security Groups and Tags.

• Add AWS EC2 VMs to user defined

applications for micro-segmentation

planning

• Visibility for AWS VPCs, EC2 VMs,

flows and AWS Security Groups

• Troubleshoot traffic in AWS to triage

denied traffic between or within

VPCs and AWS tags

• Path between VMs with underlying

Layer 2 network visibility

• Support for vCenter tags enables

fast filtering of VMs for addition to

security and application groups

• Enhanced traffic and security

analytics including physical servers

• Day 2 event reporting on NSX

issues

New

Enterprise

Edition!

AWS Support

Add AWS

credentials

• Available only with Enterprise license

• Support for VPC, firewall rules, security groups, VMs, flows, Tags

• Entities searchable via standard searches

• Planning by VPC

• Build Applications from AWS and on premVMs

• Enable CloudWatch Flow Logs Support

– 1 million API calls per month free Leverage powerful search

capabilities

Analyze flows for AWS

VPCs and Security

Groups

Event Management Enhancements

Matches based upon event

title, description, and tag

Find events quickly using the

search option

Set filters for each event

column

Event details include

description, tag, and

entity type

Event Management Enhancements – Severity, Tags, Inclusion -Exclusion

Set inclusion or exclusion

conditions.

Enable Notifications and

Control frequency

Leverage built-in or

custom event tags for

search and event

creation

Change severity level for

system events

Underlay Enhancements on VM-VM Path Page

• L2 visibility added for VMs and Edge in VM-VM path dashboard

•Separate widget shows underlay connectivity for each VM and Edge VMs in the path. Underlay path from VNIC to Top of Rack is shown

•VMs with multiple NICs supported for underlay path visibility

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CONFIDENTIAL 9

Underlay Enhancements on VM-VM Path Page

Choose VM and VNIC

entities to display within the

path

Visualization will update

to reflect chosen entity

CONFIDENTIAL 10

Underlay – Easy Access to Physical Router and Port Information

Hover over entities to display

physical router and interface

information

Improvements to micro-segmentation planning

• Support for physical IP addresses in micro-segmentation planning and application tiers

• Support for grouping by IP Set

• Export of All rules with one click

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Build application tiers

using the physical IP

Group By IPSet. Show

physical and virtual

addresses

Export all rules

output

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