vRealize Network Insight 3.3 What's New Highlights

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vRealize Network Insight 3.3

2. vRealize Network Insight 3.3
Intelligent Operations for the Virtual Network+Security Infrastructure
• Supports 11 new NSX events
such as backup not configured,
OSPF area authentication not
configured
• Add user defined events for
customized troubleshooting and
add/filter-by severity and status of
events for faster troubleshooting
• Enhanced UI, more detailed
description for events
Enhanced Visibility, Troubleshooting
& Control
Expanded Support
& Integration
Improved Event Management,
Alerting & Reporting
• Enhancements to flow reporting and
VM to VM path visibility for NAT
implementations
• Users can define “North-South” IPs
(private IPs that need to be classified
as Internet traffic) for customized,
accurate visibility and analysis
• More detailed micro-segmentation
view of ”Physical”, “Internet” and
“Other Virtual” segments for
expanded visibility
• NSX firewall implementation
enhancements such as support
for negation, direction, raw IP/port
in/dest service and VNIC
src/dst/applied to
• Panorama 7.0-7.1 support and
support for Palo Alto constructs
such as paths, firewall, events
• NSX 6.3 support

3. Enhanced Visibility, Troubleshooting: Detailed Segments View
• Group by additional elements
• Physical
• Other Virtual
• Internet
• Use case: Show where IPset created using physical
IPs is added to a security group.
Technical Overview

4. Enhanced Visibility, Troubleshooting: Enhanced Support for NAT
• Visual enhancements to NAT
function display on the VM to
VM path widget
• Tooltip on each edge providing info
about the NAT translation
performed for the specified
direction
• Different colors representing each
a specific NAT «segment» in a
path (the path line color changes
after each NAT operation)
Technical Overview
Purple
Green
Blue
NAT NAT
Tooltip

5. Enhanced Visibility, Troubleshooting: East-West and North-South IPs
• Define IP space for East – West
flows
• Use case – customer wants use
non-RFC1918 IP ranges on the
private network for E-W flows
• Define IP space for North – South
flows
• Use case – customer wants to
designate specific RFC1918 IP
ranges, for cloud scenarios.
Technical Overview

6. Improved Event Management: User-defined Events
Set trigger
condition
Manage events
within Settings
Choose severity
level
Renamed in 3.3
release

7. Improved Event Management: Severity, Status and UI Enhancements
New filter
options
View color-coded event
severity with resolution
recommendations
Choose new filter
options
Closed once
problem
resolved or
archived
User-defined
event based on
search criteria

8. Expanded Support & Integration: Enhanced Support for NSX Events
• VRNI 3.3 supports 11 additional events to
notify users of missing best practices
configurations like
• NSX Manager Backup not
configured
• OSPF authentication are not used
• ... ( others )
Please refer to the relase official
documentation for the complete
list (see also next slide)
• Most of the events have been enhanced with
actionable remediation suggestions
Technical Overview

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