VMware vRealize Network Insight 3.0.0 (Arkin) is now generally available. vRNI delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security, with converged visibility across virtual and physical networks, planning and recommendations for micro-segmentation and operations management for NSX.vRealize Network Insight provides converged operations plane between virtual and physical network.

Benefits of vRNI

–Increase speed and accuracy of micro-segmentation deployment

–Rapidly operationalize NSX environments with out of the box best practice

–Modern, simple, Google-like search

–Easy access to NSX activities and security events

–Integrates with all major 3rd party network vendors with out of the box discovery of             virtual & physical topology

–Quickly onboard existing teams to operate NSX easily

Some of the Features-

East-West Traffic Analysis (Deep insight within your VMware Infrastructure)

• East-West Traffic Flow Analysis
• Breakdown of Data Center Traffic by East-West, VM-to-VM, VM-to-Physical, Switched, Routed, etc.
• Get Detailed Flow stats behind each number

Micro-Segmentation – Security Policy Automation

• Discover vCenter and NSX constructs (folders, clusters, vlans, security tags)
• Automated Security Groupings Based on vCenter and NSX Constructs, Workload Characteristics, Ports, Common Services
• Recommended Security Policies / Firewall Rules (Zero-Trust Model)
• See Network Traffic Per Host, Per VM
• Export as CSV

If you see above figure , “Prod-Web” vm’s having connectivity with “Prod-Midtier” , as well as Internet ,shared Physical servers and DC Physical Servers.

Have you ever seen like this , so much of visibility in your virtual infrastructure.

Data Paths Across Overlay (vxlan) And Underlay (Physical/vLAN)

• VM to VM, VM to Physical, VM to Internet
• Hop-by-Hop Path across Overlay (LDRs, Edge Gateways) and Underlay (Physical VDCs & VRFs)

 

Two appliances have to be deployed:

• vRealize Network Insight Platform
• vRealize Network Insight Proxy

Resource requirements:

• vRealize Network Insight Platform OVA:

1. 750 GB – HDD, Thin provisioned
2. 32 GB RAM – Reservation – 16GB
3.  8 cores – Reservation 4096 Mhz

• vRealize Network Insight Proxy OVA:

1. 4 cores – Reservation 2048 Mhz
2. 10 GB RAM – Reservation – 5GB
3. 150 GB – HDD, Thin provisioned

• VMware vCenter Server (version 5.5 and 6.0).
• To configure and use IPFIX
• vCenter Server Credentials with privileges:
  • Distributed Switch: Modify
  • dvPort group: Modify
• VMware ESXi:
  • 5.5 Update 2 (Build 2068190) and above
  • 6.0 Update 1b (Build 3380124) and above
• Recommended that VMware Tools is installed on all the Virtual Machines in the data center. This helps in identifying the VM to VM traffic.

Software requirements

•  Google Chrome browser

Installation Workflow

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