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vRealize Network Insight pros and cons

Vendor: Broadcom
4.3 out of 5

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PROS

vRealize Network Insight allows users to visualize network flows and monitor communications between servers and applications, providing insight that simplifies microsegmentation and network configuration.
vRealize Network Insight supports network traffic monitoring, including packet tracking and flow analysis, enabling effective network configuration and security management.
vRealize Network Insight offers deep visibility into network traffic, allowing users to see detailed communication patterns within their networks, enhancing compliance and performance tracking.
vRealize Network Insight assists in migrations by providing dependency mapping, reducing outages and troubleshooting needs, and improving network efficiency.
vRealize Network Insight automates network traffic management, assisting companies in saving time and resources while improving network security and performance.

CONS

vRealize Network Insight requires enhanced interoperability with third-party products and brands for better integration.
Microsegmentation rules in vRealize Network Insight need more granularity and should be more readable for effective implementation into NSX Manager.
The current scope of interoperability in vRealize Network Insight between physical switches and other network devices needs expansion to include a broader range of infrastructure components.
Additional application information and enhanced application-aware capabilities in vRealize Network Insight are necessary to facilitate easier network policy understanding and better analytics tracking.
vRealize Network Insight incurs challenges with pricing, particularly in regions where costs are dollar-based, suggesting potential for pricing model improvement.
 

vRealize Network Insight Pros review quotes

it_user730227 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Architect at Cognizant technology solutions
Sep 3, 2017
Login site gives you the opportunity to collect logs from all of your hypervisors and your virtual servers, then put them all in one location and make them searchable.
it_user730260 - PeerSpot reviewer
Master Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 3, 2017
The benefits are it gives us insight into our network, which we can't get anywhere else.
it_user730296 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Admin at American century investments
Sep 3, 2017
We are better able to understand our needs for future growth and budgeting purposes.
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it_user526068 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 3, 2017
If you are going to implement NSX, it's a great tool.
AP
Systems Engineer at Mednax
Sep 3, 2017
Technical support is great. They do excellent work.
SM
SDDC Practice Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 29, 2018
The ability to use the natural language query and see the visualization is quickly intuitive, and it works very well.
LH
Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 29, 2018
I like being able to see the flows coming in and out of the product. In terms of monitoring network flows, we use it to verify whether or not different servers/applications should be communicating with each other.
BC
Staff SYS Admin at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 29, 2018
It allowed us to set up NSX and to do microsegmentation, without all of the pain points of having to determine each port and each IP address that needed to have access, and which ones needed to be blocked.
SO
Network Administrator at Modern Woodmen of America
Sep 2, 2018
One of the most valuable features is the ability to look at the traffic flows, to look at NetFlow data.
SeniorITdd80 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Manager at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 2, 2018
We can see everything going on in NSX and get a good picture of our environment.
 

vRealize Network Insight Cons review quotes

it_user730227 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Architect at Cognizant technology solutions
Sep 3, 2017
Better integration into VRB.
it_user730260 - PeerSpot reviewer
Master Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 3, 2017
Maybe improve the fonts.
it_user730296 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Admin at American century investments
Sep 3, 2017
Price. Honestly, the way it's licensed is challenging.
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it_user526068 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 3, 2017
Make the GUI easier to use.
AP
Systems Engineer at Mednax
Sep 3, 2017
The pricing is steep.
SM
SDDC Practice Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 29, 2018
I would like to see more interoperability on the firewall and low balancer sides.
LH
Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Aug 29, 2018
It needs to be a little easier to use and to understand the information it's putting out. That would make it more helpful. If you're not a network person you need to understand things like network policies and concepts. If you gave it to a regular admin, it would be nice if it were easier for them to pick up what is going on, understand the flows and whether or not stuff should be talking to each other, as opposed to just port groups and IP addresses.
BC
Staff SYS Admin at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 29, 2018
After you use it for a little while you become accustomed to it but the layout doesn't feel very intuitive. You have to dig around and find the exact place where you can find the information, where you can actually see your east-west traffic, etc. I would like them to bring that information more to the forefront, instead of having to find it.
SO
Network Administrator at Modern Woodmen of America
Sep 2, 2018
I'd like to see better support for being able to search the hardware NetFlow data. It ingests fairly well, but you can't tell, in a lot of cases, what source the data came from. I'd like to see more support for picking specific sources. That way you could really make a compelling use case. There are also some difficulties where it can't exactly trace the path between source and destination but if you hit the reverse flow on the same search it shows the entire path.
SeniorITdd80 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Manager at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 2, 2018
The product is slightly complex use, while still being user-friendly. It could use more training modules, as it is not a straightforward product.