Introduction

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 the VMware NSX deployments.

Think of your entire data center as being composed of entities and their relationships. As an example, a virtual machine is an entity, and the virtual machine is part of a Host which is another entity. vRealize Network Insight provides visibility and information on numerous entities that are part of your data center.

Table 1.

Entities	Description
	Host
	Problem
	NSX Firewall
	Virtual Machine
	vSphere Distributed Switch
	Physical Switch
	Virtual Port Group
	Cisco Fabric Extender
	Logical Switch
	Datastore
	Physical Network Interface Card
	Security Group
	Blade
	Router
	VLAN
	Group of VMs
	Configuration Changes
	Router Interface
	Troubleshoot
	Network Access Translation (NAT)
	Mail Server