We have Tanzu and OpenShift. We have OpenShift, Canonical, and the Tanzu one. The Tanzu platform from VMware is a Kubernetes platform. We haven't completely installed Tanzu yet; we installed the vROps part. vRealize Network Insight is beneficial because you can control the East-West traffic. vRealize has a component called NSX, which has East-West traffic controlling and micro-segmentation, that is one of the best options, and we have the layer extension, layer 2 extension possible through NSX. If you have anything accountable in any business, even in a candy business, having proper accountability on what you are selling and buying will save a lot. If you don't know what you're selling and buying, you will end up with a loss. My team does not use the flow analytics feature; we have a security and network monitoring team, which is a different SOC team. I am using it as an administrator internally. We perform different tasks including costing analysis, capacity management, and many other things. vRealize Network Insight has a concern about the maintenance part, as it requires a person to monitor it completely. It's not something you install and your report will be generated automatically. You have to work on this properly to get the insights. vRealize Network Automation, vRealize Operations, and vRealize Network Insight are completely related to the network. I cannot say much about these network aspects because I am on the operations side, but overall, the vRealize suite is good for reporting perspective or any ISO-related documentation; this is very helpful. The product is called vRealize Operations Manager, and now it is referred to as Aria or vAria. I am now a Senior System Specialist. We use different metrics because we have multiple departments, and we can monitor utilization and comparisons with the previous year. On a scale of one to ten, I rate this solution a seven.
One key advantage of using it is that if your infrastructure includes VMware servers, it’s very easy and straightforward to deploy and start collecting data, especially if your environment is fully virtualized. However, suppose your environment is a mix of virtual and physical servers. In that case, getting detailed information about your physical servers within the vRealize Networking site can be challenging. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
The product is highly regarded, and many customers have been using it along with other VMware products like vSphere and VMware vCloud Usage Insight. However, recently, there's been a trend among customers, especially those using VMware for a considerable period, to explore the potential of migrating to the public cloud. The common concern among these customers is how the VMware products will perform in the public cloud environment. Migrating instances from VMware to different platforms is not easy, especially when dealing with many instances across multiple customers. Customers are keen to maintain the functionality of their existing VMware products but prefer to run them on the public cloud instead of on-premise servers. Our clients for vRealize Network Insight are enterprise businesses. I rate it a nine out of ten.
Systems Administration and Applications Delivery Head Africa at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
May 25, 2023
We need other metrics that could be useful for monitoring purposes. So, we need a solution with parameters and metrics. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
VMware Administrator L3 Support at Diyar United Company
Real User
Mar 7, 2023
I give the solution a nine out of ten. I definitely recommend the solution, as it was my first time using it and I really felt it captured all the necessary elements of the environment. The main benefit is that vRealize Network Insight captures micro-segmentation, which is one of the best products from VMware. The solution helps micro-segmentation achieve its purpose. When comparing vRealize Network Insight to other solutions such as SolarWinds and other monitoring tools, vRealize Network Insight is more user-friendly.
Network Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Sep 28, 2022
I rate the solution ten out of ten. For our requirements, five people are needed to maintain the solution. I recommend the solution tool for all networks and security.
Executive - Solutions, Engineering and Services at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Jun 15, 2020
We are a reseller of VMware. We're known as a principal partner and we have the highest level of partnership agreement an organization can have with VMware. Our organization is quite a large organization that deals, and we have many various different business units concentrating on specific enterprise applications. In terms of advice I would give to other companies, my personal opinion is that they shouldn't waste time, especially if they know what they want, and start moving towards a cloud consumption-based environment. Network insight is critical. Without that, you're going to introduce additional latencies and problems into your environment that you don't want. So, as a first step to your cloud journey, you have to have a good view of your network environment - especially with your applications and how they are talking to all the other applications. It is critical. I think it's a must-have. I'd rate the solution eight and a half out of ten.
It's a great solution. You do need knowledge and understanding of network traffic, protocols, and ports to understand when you do a search, since you receive flowcharts about the ports in use. This is more technical knowledge of how your network works. However, the tool is very much intuitive.
I rate it a nine out of ten. I'm a little bit skeptical, I never give a ten. But otherwise, in the next release, if they made it more intuitive - it's definitely intuitive - but if there were some more features and it let us know about east-west traffic as well, that would be more helpful.
If you are having too many issues with your network, having issues with tracing the flow of your network, this is the product you should be using to troubleshoot the issues. I rate it a nine out of ten. It's not a ten because of the compatibility issue.
Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Sep 5, 2018
It's definitely worth investigating. You need to look at the environment, but it's worth the time to look into it and see if it fits with your purposes.
I would rate it an eight out of 10. It's not a 10 because of our experience with the vendor. I believe the product is a great product and, obviously, the VMware applications that we're using, we have had no issues with them.
Infrastructure Admin at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Sep 5, 2018
Make sure you check out the demo, make sure you have enough time to check out the demo, run it in your environment for a while, and study up as much as you can on it.
Virtualization at a university with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Sep 5, 2018
The most important criterion when selecting a vendor is whether or not we think they're going to survive for more than the next license cycle. I would rate this solution a strong nine out of 10. It would be a 10 if it were free.
Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Sep 5, 2018
I would recommend the product. I don't think there is any other product like this on the market right now. I rate this product at seven out of ten because the product is great but there are still a few more improvements that can be made to it, as I said above. It could have more physical devices integrated and supported. When selecting any type of vendor, our most important criteria is support.
For the most part, it is user-friendly. It continues to grow and mature. It's definitely headed in the right direction. The fact that they continue to want to improve the customer experience is important. The product is great to begin with but they realize that nothing is perfect and they want to keep improving it.
Sys Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Sep 5, 2018
We just started with it recently. We are still working on it, to get familiar with the product. The first criterion, when selecting a vendor, should be technical support. Whenever we call, we should get technical support. Support is the main thing.
Network Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Sep 5, 2018
I would tell a colleague who is looking into this or a similar solution that vRNI is a great tool because, without it, it would be impossible to manage the operations part. I rate vRNI at eight out of ten. For the other two points, I would need more regarding the microsegmentation part. It doesn't give me the clarity I want. It captures a lot, but it doesn't give complete clarity. That is something I am looking for. When looking for a vendor, support is the main criteria.
Principal Architect at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Sep 5, 2018
It's easy enough to try. Get with their account team, get some trial licenses and give it a whirl. It's worth spending a weekend to give it a shot. It's hard for me to give it a 10 out of 10, it's hard for me to give it a six out of 10, so my rating is in the middle. The only reason I would not give it a nine or a 10 is for cost reasons. It seems to be one of those things that really belongs as part of the product inherently and not as an add-on. That would be my only concern.
I want to say it's a 10 out of 10. If they fix that micro-segmentation thing it will absolutely be a 10. Right now it's about an eight out of 10. I think it's just a big jump. If they can fix that micro-seg, that means so much more to me, so I would give it that extra boost for that. But the usability of it, how nice the interface is, those are great. If they improve the API that might get us to a nine, but if they get the micro-seg, I'll give them the other two points.
Engineer at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Sep 3, 2018
There's no real advice. You'll know if you need something like this or not. You don't just purchase it and then hope for the best. You have a use case for it.
VMware NSX Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Sep 3, 2018
It's a pretty good system if you're doing troubleshooting and microsegmentation. As a troubleshooting tool, it's a level-3 troubleshooting-skills tool and it's very easy to use and very easy to find the information that you need. I rate it a seven out of ten, only because it doesn't have all the vendors - at least the switch vendors - in there. They only have Cisco, for the most part, and you really need all of them to make it because companies don't just use Cisco for everything.
Corporate FED (forensics and eDiscovery) at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Sep 2, 2018
I love what we can do with this and I love everything it gives to us. I rate it a nine out of ten because I don't see users complaining a lot. For what we need, for the most part, we get it. It's not 100 percent, it's not like something we distributed to the whole organization. But I'm sure the CIO will want to do that when we can.
Senior IT Manager at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Sep 2, 2018
Do the training before purchasing. Research the product and its competitors. Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: technical knowledge. They need to understand their product.
Enterprise Solutions Architect at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Sep 2, 2018
We would absolutely recommend it. In fact, we've had that experience where it was recommended to us and we said, "We need this, we need to do this." We are very positive so far with everything we've seen in this tool.
Technical Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Sep 2, 2018
If you have a VMware suite and you are going to use NSX, then I would definitely recommend vRNI. I rate the solution at eight out of ten. I'm still getting familiar with it. The UI, even though once you get to know it, it's easier, still it's hard to figure out by yourself. You have to go read, watch videos. It has a lot of data on it. So that is an issue.
Network Administrator at Modern Woodmen of America
Real User
Top 20
Sep 2, 2018
There is not an easier way to do this. If you have unlimited time, maybe go look at something else. But if you don't, then this is would be the way to do it. I rate it a nine out of 10. It's a fantastic product, it's great. Some of the things I think it should be able to search on, it doesn't. I would also like to see tighter integration with some logging and SNMP-type information. I also use Splunk so I'd like to see something with Splunk. I know it can do vRealize Log Insight but that doesn't seem to do a whole lot for me yet. I only gave it a nine because I know there's so much more potential there. I would tell anybody "Get it". I rated it very highly but there's a lot more potential and room to grow.
Staff SYS Admin at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Aug 29, 2018
I would rate this product an eight out of 10. I might give it a higher rating if we used it more. We used it for a period of time and then we stopped using it. There was nothing wrong with it, we just didn't use it enough to see it as a 10 out of 10. The most important criterion when selecting a vendor is finding one who will actually give what is promised.
Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Aug 29, 2018
Make sure the solution you're looking at is compatible with what you want to do and that it has future growth to it; not just a pinpoint solution but a solution that is part of a bigger vision. You don't want to buy a product that does just this one thing and then you have to buy another product to do something else. Make sure it has interoperability and integration points with some of your bigger infrastructure. I would rate vRNI at eight out of 10. It would be a 10 if it could bubble up deeper application and user information.
SDDC Practice Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
MSP
Aug 29, 2018
We typically just deploy the latest version that we have, and that's it. We don't go back and do upgrades. Either the customers are doing that themselves or we don't have a specific service that does that. This is a must have product if you're a very big gamma customer. You have to have a way to analyze how networking is slowing through your environment. We used to have the 1000V when we had Cisco for our Cisco customers, and we could use some of that solution, but there is not really any other tool that will provide the type of fidelity and richness of beta that you will need from your VMware environment regardless of whether you're deploying NSX or not, giving you that rich visualization of what's happening in the network layer and what's happening with the application layer within that networking layer in VMware. This is the only tool that you can obtain this level of richness from it.
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.
We have Tanzu and OpenShift. We have OpenShift, Canonical, and the Tanzu one. The Tanzu platform from VMware is a Kubernetes platform. We haven't completely installed Tanzu yet; we installed the vROps part. vRealize Network Insight is beneficial because you can control the East-West traffic. vRealize has a component called NSX, which has East-West traffic controlling and micro-segmentation, that is one of the best options, and we have the layer extension, layer 2 extension possible through NSX. If you have anything accountable in any business, even in a candy business, having proper accountability on what you are selling and buying will save a lot. If you don't know what you're selling and buying, you will end up with a loss. My team does not use the flow analytics feature; we have a security and network monitoring team, which is a different SOC team. I am using it as an administrator internally. We perform different tasks including costing analysis, capacity management, and many other things. vRealize Network Insight has a concern about the maintenance part, as it requires a person to monitor it completely. It's not something you install and your report will be generated automatically. You have to work on this properly to get the insights. vRealize Network Automation, vRealize Operations, and vRealize Network Insight are completely related to the network. I cannot say much about these network aspects because I am on the operations side, but overall, the vRealize suite is good for reporting perspective or any ISO-related documentation; this is very helpful. The product is called vRealize Operations Manager, and now it is referred to as Aria or vAria. I am now a Senior System Specialist. We use different metrics because we have multiple departments, and we can monitor utilization and comparisons with the previous year. On a scale of one to ten, I rate this solution a seven.
NA. I rate the overall solution an 8 out of 10.
One key advantage of using it is that if your infrastructure includes VMware servers, it’s very easy and straightforward to deploy and start collecting data, especially if your environment is fully virtualized. However, suppose your environment is a mix of virtual and physical servers. In that case, getting detailed information about your physical servers within the vRealize Networking site can be challenging. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
The product is highly regarded, and many customers have been using it along with other VMware products like vSphere and VMware vCloud Usage Insight. However, recently, there's been a trend among customers, especially those using VMware for a considerable period, to explore the potential of migrating to the public cloud. The common concern among these customers is how the VMware products will perform in the public cloud environment. Migrating instances from VMware to different platforms is not easy, especially when dealing with many instances across multiple customers. Customers are keen to maintain the functionality of their existing VMware products but prefer to run them on the public cloud instead of on-premise servers. Our clients for vRealize Network Insight are enterprise businesses. I rate it a nine out of ten.
Overall, I would give vRealize Network Insight a nine out of ten.
We need other metrics that could be useful for monitoring purposes. So, we need a solution with parameters and metrics. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Try to find at least two use cases for the product and continue validating it after the installation. I'd rate it a solid nine out of ten.
I give the solution a nine out of ten. I definitely recommend the solution, as it was my first time using it and I really felt it captured all the necessary elements of the environment. The main benefit is that vRealize Network Insight captures micro-segmentation, which is one of the best products from VMware. The solution helps micro-segmentation achieve its purpose. When comparing vRealize Network Insight to other solutions such as SolarWinds and other monitoring tools, vRealize Network Insight is more user-friendly.
I rate the solution ten out of ten. For our requirements, five people are needed to maintain the solution. I recommend the solution tool for all networks and security.
We are a VMware business partner in Turkey. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
We are a reseller of VMware. We're known as a principal partner and we have the highest level of partnership agreement an organization can have with VMware. Our organization is quite a large organization that deals, and we have many various different business units concentrating on specific enterprise applications. In terms of advice I would give to other companies, my personal opinion is that they shouldn't waste time, especially if they know what they want, and start moving towards a cloud consumption-based environment. Network insight is critical. Without that, you're going to introduce additional latencies and problems into your environment that you don't want. So, as a first step to your cloud journey, you have to have a good view of your network environment - especially with your applications and how they are talking to all the other applications. It is critical. I think it's a must-have. I'd rate the solution eight and a half out of ten.
It's a great solution. You do need knowledge and understanding of network traffic, protocols, and ports to understand when you do a search, since you receive flowcharts about the ports in use. This is more technical knowledge of how your network works. However, the tool is very much intuitive.
Use the product. It's pretty cool.
I would rate the vRNI a ten out of ten. It has given us value since day one. We can see more than before. This helps.
The rating for the product would be a nine because I don't know of anything that would be a ten. Nothing's perfect.
I rate it a nine out of ten. I'm a little bit skeptical, I never give a ten. But otherwise, in the next release, if they made it more intuitive - it's definitely intuitive - but if there were some more features and it let us know about east-west traffic as well, that would be more helpful.
If you are having too many issues with your network, having issues with tracing the flow of your network, this is the product you should be using to troubleshoot the issues. I rate it a nine out of ten. It's not a ten because of the compatibility issue.
It's definitely worth investigating. You need to look at the environment, but it's worth the time to look into it and see if it fits with your purposes.
If you're VMware shop, investigate this deeply because it makes sense to live in the ecosystem.
I would rate it an eight out of 10. It's not a 10 because of our experience with the vendor. I believe the product is a great product and, obviously, the VMware applications that we're using, we have had no issues with them.
Make sure you check out the demo, make sure you have enough time to check out the demo, run it in your environment for a while, and study up as much as you can on it.
The most important criterion when selecting a vendor is whether or not we think they're going to survive for more than the next license cycle. I would rate this solution a strong nine out of 10. It would be a 10 if it were free.
I would definitely endorse the solution.
I would recommend the product. I don't think there is any other product like this on the market right now. I rate this product at seven out of ten because the product is great but there are still a few more improvements that can be made to it, as I said above. It could have more physical devices integrated and supported. When selecting any type of vendor, our most important criteria is support.
For the most part, it is user-friendly. It continues to grow and mature. It's definitely headed in the right direction. The fact that they continue to want to improve the customer experience is important. The product is great to begin with but they realize that nothing is perfect and they want to keep improving it.
We just started with it recently. We are still working on it, to get familiar with the product. The first criterion, when selecting a vendor, should be technical support. Whenever we call, we should get technical support. Support is the main thing.
I would tell a colleague who is looking into this or a similar solution that vRNI is a great tool because, without it, it would be impossible to manage the operations part. I rate vRNI at eight out of ten. For the other two points, I would need more regarding the microsegmentation part. It doesn't give me the clarity I want. It captures a lot, but it doesn't give complete clarity. That is something I am looking for. When looking for a vendor, support is the main criteria.
It's easy enough to try. Get with their account team, get some trial licenses and give it a whirl. It's worth spending a weekend to give it a shot. It's hard for me to give it a 10 out of 10, it's hard for me to give it a six out of 10, so my rating is in the middle. The only reason I would not give it a nine or a 10 is for cost reasons. It seems to be one of those things that really belongs as part of the product inherently and not as an add-on. That would be my only concern.
I want to say it's a 10 out of 10. If they fix that micro-segmentation thing it will absolutely be a 10. Right now it's about an eight out of 10. I think it's just a big jump. If they can fix that micro-seg, that means so much more to me, so I would give it that extra boost for that. But the usability of it, how nice the interface is, those are great. If they improve the API that might get us to a nine, but if they get the micro-seg, I'll give them the other two points.
There's no real advice. You'll know if you need something like this or not. You don't just purchase it and then hope for the best. You have a use case for it.
It's a pretty good system if you're doing troubleshooting and microsegmentation. As a troubleshooting tool, it's a level-3 troubleshooting-skills tool and it's very easy to use and very easy to find the information that you need. I rate it a seven out of ten, only because it doesn't have all the vendors - at least the switch vendors - in there. They only have Cisco, for the most part, and you really need all of them to make it because companies don't just use Cisco for everything.
I love what we can do with this and I love everything it gives to us. I rate it a nine out of ten because I don't see users complaining a lot. For what we need, for the most part, we get it. It's not 100 percent, it's not like something we distributed to the whole organization. But I'm sure the CIO will want to do that when we can.
Do the training before purchasing. Research the product and its competitors. Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: technical knowledge. They need to understand their product.
We would absolutely recommend it. In fact, we've had that experience where it was recommended to us and we said, "We need this, we need to do this." We are very positive so far with everything we've seen in this tool.
If you have a VMware suite and you are going to use NSX, then I would definitely recommend vRNI. I rate the solution at eight out of ten. I'm still getting familiar with it. The UI, even though once you get to know it, it's easier, still it's hard to figure out by yourself. You have to go read, watch videos. It has a lot of data on it. So that is an issue.
There is not an easier way to do this. If you have unlimited time, maybe go look at something else. But if you don't, then this is would be the way to do it. I rate it a nine out of 10. It's a fantastic product, it's great. Some of the things I think it should be able to search on, it doesn't. I would also like to see tighter integration with some logging and SNMP-type information. I also use Splunk so I'd like to see something with Splunk. I know it can do vRealize Log Insight but that doesn't seem to do a whole lot for me yet. I only gave it a nine because I know there's so much more potential there. I would tell anybody "Get it". I rated it very highly but there's a lot more potential and room to grow.
I would rate this product an eight out of 10. I might give it a higher rating if we used it more. We used it for a period of time and then we stopped using it. There was nothing wrong with it, we just didn't use it enough to see it as a 10 out of 10. The most important criterion when selecting a vendor is finding one who will actually give what is promised.
Make sure the solution you're looking at is compatible with what you want to do and that it has future growth to it; not just a pinpoint solution but a solution that is part of a bigger vision. You don't want to buy a product that does just this one thing and then you have to buy another product to do something else. Make sure it has interoperability and integration points with some of your bigger infrastructure. I would rate vRNI at eight out of 10. It would be a 10 if it could bubble up deeper application and user information.
We typically just deploy the latest version that we have, and that's it. We don't go back and do upgrades. Either the customers are doing that themselves or we don't have a specific service that does that. This is a must have product if you're a very big gamma customer. You have to have a way to analyze how networking is slowing through your environment. We used to have the 1000V when we had Cisco for our Cisco customers, and we could use some of that solution, but there is not really any other tool that will provide the type of fidelity and richness of beta that you will need from your VMware environment regardless of whether you're deploying NSX or not, giving you that rich visualization of what's happening in the network layer and what's happening with the application layer within that networking layer in VMware. This is the only tool that you can obtain this level of richness from it.