vRealize Network Insight features vary based on the license you use.

The following table shows the feature comparison between the various licenses offered by vRealize Network Insight:

Capability Advanced License Enterprise License Cloud Service (SaaS) SD-WAN On-premises/Cloud Service (SaaS) Universal License
Federated Network Analytics No No No No Yes
Interchangeable Deployment On-Premises or SaaS No No No No Yes
Custom Dashboards Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Usability Large Screen Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS 140-2) Validated Cryptographic Modules Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Deployment Backup and Restore Yes Yes N/A Yes (Only for On-Premises) No
Virtual Flows (VDS IPFIX, V2V, V2P) Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Physical Flows (NetFlow and sFlow) No Yes Yes No Yes
NSX Firewall Microsegmentation Planning and Operations (NSX IPFIX) Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Visibility Across Third-Party Switches, Routers, Firewalls, and Load Balancers Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Check Point firewall Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Public API Yes Yes Yes No Yes
DNS Mapping (Import Bind File) Yes Yes Yes No Yes
DNS Resolution with Infoblox No Yes Yes No Yes
NSX PCI Compliance Dashboard No Yes Yes No Yes
Security Planning and Visibility for VMware Cloud on AWS No Yes Yes No Yes
Visibility for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition, Kubernetes, and OpenShift No Yes Yes No Yes
Visibility of NSX Container Plug-in for OpenShift 4.x (Kubernetes cluster) No Yes Yes No Yes
Network and Security Analytics (Top Talkers, Anomalies, Outlier Detection, and so on) No Yes Yes No Yes
Configurable and Extended Retention Period for Data No Yes Yes No Yes
Arista BGP-EVPN underlay/overlay visibility No Yes Yes No Yes
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) No Yes Yes No Yes
Cisco BGP-EVPN Underlay Visibility No Yes Yes No Yes
Cisco Catalyst 9000 (Network Map, VM-VM Path, Intent) No Yes Yes No Yes
Juniper Ethernet VPN (EVPN) VM to VM path No Yes Yes No Yes
Basic Application Discovery (Names, Tags, RegEx) Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Application Dashboard (Alerts, Intent Failures, Security Issues, and Guided Network Troubleshooting Incidents) No Yes Yes No Yes
Guided Network Troubleshooting No Yes Yes No Yes
Crown Jewels Analysis No Yes Yes No Yes
Flow/Threshold Analytics and Reporting No Yes Yes No Yes
Flow IPv6 traffic from VMware vCenter and VMware NSX Yes Yes Yes No Yes
ServiceNow Integration for Application Discovery No Yes Yes No Yes
NSX Advanced Load Balancer No Yes Yes No Yes
Flow Based Application Discovery No Yes Yes No Yes
Azure VMware Solution (AVS) No Yes Yes No Yes
Azure flow collection for Network Security Group (NSG) Yes No No Yes
Google Cloud VMware Engine No Yes Yes No Yes
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution No Yes Yes No Yes
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC No Yes Yes No Yes
VMware Cloud on AWS Direct Connect No Yes Yes No Yes
VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts No Yes Yes No Yes
VMware SD-WAN No No No Yes No
VMware Aria Operations (vRealize Operations) Manager Integration (On-prem) Yes Yes No No Yes
VMware Aria Operations (vRealize Operations) Integration (SaaS) No No Yes No Yes
NSX Intelligence Integration No Yes Yes No Yes
VMware NSX federation visibility No Yes Yes No Yes
VMware HCX (Troubleshooting, network monitoring, L2 extension in VMware Cloud, and VM-to-VM overlay path) No Yes Yes No Yes
Assurance and Verification (Network Map and Intents) No Yes Yes No Yes
MPLS routing support in Assurance and Verification (Network Map and Intents) for Cisco Catalyst and Cisco ASR 9K devices No Yes Yes No Yes

VMware Cloud on AWS Support for L2 Extension (HCX)

No Yes Yes No Yes
Incomplete TCP Sessions Insight No Yes Yes No Yes
Streaming Databus No Yes Yes No Yes

VMware Cloud Partner Navigator for Service Providers and Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

No No Yes Yes (only for Cloud/SaaS) No
Deployment Backup and Restore Yes Yes No No Yes (Only for On-premises)
Live agent chat support No No Yes No Yes
SaaS locations US West (Oregon), Canada Central (Montreal), Europe (London), (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) No No Yes No Yes