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
Refer Release Notes for more details