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vRealize Network Insight 3.4
What’s New

2. VMware Delivers:
Intelligent Operations for Software-Defined Datacenter
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1 vRealize Suite components
2 Included with vRealize Suite and ships with NSX
vRealize Operations1
Compute Storage
Hybrid Cloud
Network
& Security
vRealize
Network
Insight
vRealize Log Insight2
Physical/ Virtual/ Cloud Environment
Application
vRealize Business for Cloud1
vRealize Network Insight Delivers Intelligent Operations for Software-Defined Networking and Security across
virtual, physical and multi-cloud environments

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vRealize Network Insight 3.4
Intelligent Operations for Network and Security Across Virtual, Physical and Multiple Clouds
VMware 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 VMware NSX deployments.
Micro segmentation Planning,
Deployment and Compliance
• Plan and measure security impact
with micro segmentation
• Accelerate micro-segmentation
deployment with firewall rules
recommendations.
• Continuously monitor and audit
compliance postures over time.
360 Network Visibility and Troubleshooting
• Quickly troubleshoot connectivity issues
between VMs through powerful path
visualization
• Unify troubleshooting experience across the
virtual and physical infrastructure
• Rapidly identify issues through efficient event
and alert management
Manage and Scale NSX Deployments
• Scale across multiple NSX Managers
with powerful visualizations for
topology and health
• Avoid configuration issues through an
in-product best practices checklist
• Pinpoint and triage issues for quick
resolution with intuitive UI and search
Secure Public Cloud Infrastructure
• Extend micro-segmentation planning to
AWS security groups
• Analyze traffic flows in AWS and get visibility
into AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• Troubleshoot firewall issues between VMs in
AWS

4. vRealize Network Insight 3.4
Intelligent Operations for SDDC Network and Security Across Virtual, Physical and Hybrid Clouds
• vRealize Network Insight
generated events can be exported
as syslog messages for close
integration with log management
products such as vRealize Log
Insight
• Customization of alerts by object
and alert types, as global settings
• Configuration features for
modifying data retention periods
Manage Public Cloud
Security
Troubleshoot across virtual
and physical infrastructure
Customize for maximum
deployment flexibility
• Micro-segmentation planning by AWS
VPC, Security Groups and Tags.
• Add AWS EC2 VMs to user defined
applications for micro-segmentation
planning
• Visibility for AWS VPCs, EC2 VMs,
flows and AWS Security Groups
• Troubleshoot traffic in AWS to triage
denied traffic between or within
VPCs and AWS tags
• Path between VMs with underlying
Layer 2 network visibility
• Support for vCenter tags enables
fast filtering of VMs for addition to
security and application groups
• Enhanced traffic and security
analytics including physical servers
• Day 2 event reporting on NSX
issues
New
Enterprise
Edition!

5. AWS Support
Add AWS
credentials
• Available only with Enterprise license
• Support for VPC, firewall rules, security
groups, VMs, flows, Tags
• Entities searchable via standard searches
• Planning by VPC
• Build Applications from AWS and on prem
VMs
• Enable CloudWatch Flow Logs Support
– 1 million API calls per month free Leverage powerful search
capabilities
Analyze flows for AWS
VPCs and Security
Groups

6. Event Management Enhancements
Matches based upon event
title, description, and tag
Find events quickly using the
search option
Set filters for each event
column
Event details include
description, tag, and
entity type

7. Event Management Enhancements – Severity, Tags, Inclusion -
Exclusion
Set inclusion or exclusion
conditions.
Enable Notifications and
Control frequency
Leverage built-in or
custom event tags for
search and event
creation
Change severity level for
system events

8. Underlay Enhancements on VM-VM Path Page
• L2 visibility added for VMs and Edge in VM-VM path dashboard
• Separate widget shows underlay connectivity for each VM and Edge VMs in the path. Underlay path from
VNIC to Top of Rack is shown
• VMs with multiple NICs supported for underlay path visibility
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9. CONFIDENTIAL 9
Underlay Enhancements on
VM-VM Path Page Choose VM and VNIC
entities to display within the
path
Visualization will update
to reflect chosen entity

10. CONFIDENTIAL 10
Underlay – Easy Access to Physical Router and
Port Information
Hover over entities to display
physical router and interface
information

11. Improvements to micro-segmentation planning
• Support for physical IP addresses in
micro-segmentation planning and
application tiers
• Support for grouping by IP Set
• Export of All rules with one click
CONFIDENTIAL 11
Build application tiers
using the physical IP
Group By IPSet. Show
physical and virtual
addresses
Export all rules
output

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