vRealize Network Insight 3.3 provides enhanced visibility, troubleshooting, and control for virtual networks. It supports more NSX events, allows custom user-defined events, and provides more detailed micro-segmentation views. The update also improves event management with new filtering options and severity indicators. Support is expanded for features like NAT and integration with products including NSX 6.3 and Palo Alto Networks.

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vRealize Network Insight 3.3

2. vRealize Network Insight 3.3
Intelligent Operations for the Virtual Network+Security Infrastructure
• Supports 11 new NSX events
such as backup not configured,
OSPF area authentication not
configured
• Add user defined events for
customized troubleshooting and
add/filter-by severity and status of
events for faster troubleshooting
• Enhanced UI, more detailed
description for events
Enhanced Visibility, Troubleshooting
& Control
Expanded Support
& Integration
Improved Event Management,
Alerting & Reporting
• Enhancements to flow reporting and
VM to VM path visibility for NAT
implementations
• Users can define “North-South” IPs
(private IPs that need to be classified
as Internet traffic) for customized,
accurate visibility and analysis
• More detailed micro-segmentation
view of ”Physical”, “Internet” and
“Other Virtual” segments for
expanded visibility
• NSX firewall implementation
enhancements such as support
for negation, direction, raw IP/port
in/dest service and VNIC
src/dst/applied to
• Panorama 7.0-7.1 support and
support for Palo Alto constructs
such as paths, firewall, events
• NSX 6.3 support

3. Enhanced Visibility, Troubleshooting: Detailed Segments View
• Group by additional elements
• Physical
• Other Virtual
• Internet
• Use case: Show where IPset created using physical
IPs is added to a security group.
Technical Overview

4. Enhanced Visibility, Troubleshooting: Enhanced Support for NAT
• Visual enhancements to NAT
function display on the VM to
VM path widget
• Tooltip on each edge providing info
about the NAT translation
performed for the specified
direction
• Different colors representing each
a specific NAT «segment» in a
path (the path line color changes
after each NAT operation)
Technical Overview
Purple
Green
Blue
NAT NAT
Tooltip

5. Enhanced Visibility, Troubleshooting: East-West and North-South IPs
• Define IP space for East – West
flows
• Use case – customer wants use
non-RFC1918 IP ranges on the
private network for E-W flows
• Define IP space for North – South
flows
• Use case – customer wants to
designate specific RFC1918 IP
ranges, for cloud scenarios.
Technical Overview

6. Improved Event Management: User-defined Events
Set trigger
condition
Manage events
within Settings
Choose severity
level
Renamed in 3.3
release

7. Improved Event Management: Severity, Status and UI Enhancements
New filter
options
View color-coded event
severity with resolution
recommendations
Choose new filter
options
Closed once
problem
resolved or
archived
User-defined
event based on
search criteria

8. Expanded Support & Integration: Enhanced Support for NSX Events
• VRNI 3.3 supports 11 additional events to
notify users of missing best practices
configurations like
• NSX Manager Backup not
configured
• OSPF authentication are not used
• ... ( others )
Please refer to the relase official
documentation for the complete
list (see also next slide)
• Most of the events have been enhanced with
actionable remediation suggestions
Technical Overview

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