VMware vRealize Network Insight 5.0 Released With New Features

VMware has announced the release of VMware vRealize Network Insight 5.0, which introduces a bunch of new features. New features of this release are new integrations with VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud and Public Cloud Azure. Other major features include Network Flow Round Trip Time (RTT) metrics with NSX-T, Kubernetes topologies and application discovery and much more that makes this product so powerful and rich with data; let’s check what’s new with this release

What’s New

• VMware SD-WAN Support
  • VMware SD-WANTM by VeloCloud support for end-end network/application monitoring, troubleshooting, analytics
  • Uber Enterprise Dashboard with map view.
  • Site/Edge, App Dashboards and Analysis.
  • Site/Edge Topology for LAN and WAN visibility.
  • VMware SD-WAN Flow Analysis that includes traffic, latency and retransmit counts.
  • Top Performance Dashboards for VMware SD-WAN Infra and Apps.
  • End-to-End VM/IP to VM/IP Path visibility and hotspots.
• Public Cloud
  • Azure support for security planning, flow analysis and single pane of glass visibility
    • Azure entities part of application discovery & security planning
    • Flow analysis: Intra and inter VNET flows, NSG-flow mapping, NSG recommendation
    • Azure entities first class citizen of search
    • Analytics: Top talkers, Elephant flows, Outliers (Application Tiers & ASG), Threshold (Azure VMs and Flows)
    • Dashboards: Azure Overview, Azure subscription, ASG, NSG, Subnet, VM, VNET
    • APIs: Create, Update & Delete Azure data source
  • Addition of VMware Cloud on AWS Bird’s Eye View dashboard
• Application Discovery and Visibility
  • Support for Azure VMs in App Discovery and definitions
  • ‘Custom Search’ support for Kubernetes entities when creating Application tiers
  • Dashboard optimizations for improved responsiveness and load times
• Kubernetes Environment
  • Network path tracing for Kubernetes Services and pods
• Third-Party Device Support
  • Support Streaming Telemetry for Dell OS10 Switches (S5200, release 10.4/5.x of OS10)
    • Integrated Buffer Statistics and Tracking (BST)
    • Metrics supported: Peak buffer utilization (percentage) for per-port egress unicast queues (only for TOR downlink port)
    • Supported for application troubleshooting and VM-VM path topology
• NSX-T
  • VTEP-VTEP Latency metric support (for v2.5 and above) and display in Host and Transport Node dashboards
  • PCI compliance Dashboard
• Other Enhancements
  • Search query displayed below the search bar is updated based on the filters selected to refine the original search.
  • Ability to sort search results from the UI without updating the search query.
  • Ability to search within the micro-segmentation donut
  • Identify users who made the changes in NSX-T Manager and show in a timeline
• Serviceability
  • Health grid for monitoring and reporting key system parameters
• Localization Support
  • vRealize Network Insight 5.0 is available in the following languages:
    • English
    • French
    • German
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Spanish
    • Simplified Chinese
    • Traditional Chinese
  • Note: The following items are not considered for localization:
    • The enumerated values used in the facets
    • Search Queries
    • The exported CSV and PDF report files
    • The email subject and content
    • Time controls for search
    • Event tags
    • The PCI Compliance Page