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.

vRealize Network Insight 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.

Homepage

The vRealize Network Insight homepage provides a quick summary of what is happening in your entire data center. It provides quick access to the important components of your data center.

The vRealize Network Insight home page provides quick access to important sections such as vRNI health, quick links, alerts, and insights.

The homepage includes the following sections:

  • Search bar: Enables you to search across your data center network (and its corresponding entities). It is available at the top of the homepage and can be used to search for the entities that are available in your data center. Based on your requirement, you can perform search as per the following time line options:
    • Presets: Using this option, you can narrow down your search results for presets such as last week, last 3 days, and last 24 hours.
    • At: Using this option, you can narrow down your search results for a particular date and time.
    • Custom: Using this option, you can search for data between a particular time interval.
  • Navigation pane: Enables you to access key product features such as Plan & Assess, Intent, and Entities without having to type any search queries. It is available on the left of the homepage.
  • vRNI Health: Indicates the health of platform VMs, collector VMs, and the platform capacity at current time.
  • Alerts: Displays the alerts sorted by the severity.
  • Insights: Highlights critical or behavioral changes in the network at the current time. This section also highlights entities such as applications, firewall rules, and VMs that need immediate attention.
  • Quick Links: Shows useful quick links.
  • Environments: Shows a heat map view indicating the health of entities associated with each environment type.
  • Anomalies: Shows error metrics for applications, VMs, and VMware NSX-T Edge Transport nodes.
  • Explore Guides: Shows guided workflows to perform some of the most important tasks in vRealize Network Insight. The Explore Guides button is available at the right corner of the homepage.

Security Compliance

vRealize Network Insight is a pre-hardened and secured appliance. vRealize Network Insight is hardened against well-established and industry-accepted security benchmarks, for example: CIS. Additionally, VMware security team has put internal controls to minimize the security footprint.

vRealize Network Insight also follows all security and privacy best practices defined by VMware Security Engineering, Communications, and Response (vSECR) team.

For any critical known vulnerabilities that require immediate action, VMware releases security advisories for those vulnerabilities with step-by-step instructions on how to keep the appliance secure. In general, all known vulnerabilities are fixed in every release. Use the latest version of the appliance to take advantage of these security fixes.