NSX and vRealize Network Insight

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Your vRealize
Network Network Insight
provides
Virtual networks
converged
“Network platform”
operations plane
Network and security
services now in the
between virtual
hypervisor and physical
Virtualization layer network
Network, storage,
compute
vRealize Network Insight
Transformative Operations for NSX based Software-Defined Data Center

Plan Micro-segmentation Optimize Network Ensure Best Practices,

Deployment and Ensure Performance with 3600 Health and Availability of
Compliance Visibility & Analytics NSX Deployment

Across Virtual, Physical and Cloud

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Customer Journey with NSX & vRealized Network Insight

Pre/Sell Day 2

Assess Deploy Operate

East–West Data Center Map Application Connectivity Overlay-Underlay, V-to-P

Traffic Profile Visibility
Model Security Groups and DFW
Micro-Segmentation Rules Operationalize NSX, Leverage
Recommendations Existing Skill Set (Simple
Best Practices Google-like Search)
NSX ROI
VXLAN / Virtual Networks Rapid Trouble Shooting
Audit & Compliance

Arkin Confidential
Customer Benefits
•Fast Time to Value
–Increase speed and accuracy of micro-segmentation deployment
–Rapidly operationalize NSX environments with out of the box best practice
•Ease of Use
–Modern, simple, Google-like search
–Easy access to NSX activities and security events
•Leverage Your Existing Investments
–Integrates with all major 3rd party network vendors with out of the box
discovery of virtual & physical topology
–Quickly onboard existing teams to operate NSX easily

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Customer Momentum

Winner Best of VMworld

Finalist Award (Networking
and Virtualization)
September 2015 Customers Span
F500/G2000
PANW Ignite Conference 2016 Panel Session: • Retail
CA-DWR, USAA & Columbia Sports • Pharma
Cyber Defense Magazine – Case Study - NSX, PANW & vRealize Network
Most Innovative Enterprise
Insight
• Airline
Security Solution
February 2016 • Security
• State/Local
• Financial
• Healthcare
Gartner Cool Vendor for
Enterprise Networking • Education
April 2016

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Case Study:
CA Dept. of Water Rolls Out Secure
Cloud Using vRealize Network Insight 6
 “Visibility is the key… visibility
across technology domains and
across virtual and physical
networks”

John Spiegel, Global IT Communications Manager

TargetTech: Data center operations scor

e new glasses with VMware buy

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 East-West Traffic Analysis

• East-West Traffic Flow Analysis

• Breakdown of Data Center Traffic by East-
West, VM-to-VM, VM-to-Physical,
Switched, Routed, etc.
• Get Detailed Flow stats behind each
number

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 Security Policy Automation – Micro-Segmentation

• Discover vCenter and NSX constructs

(folders, clusters, vlans, security tags)
• Automated Security Groupings Based on
vCenter and NSX Constructs, Workload
Characteristics, Ports, Common Services
• Recommended Security Policies / Firewall
Rules (Zero-Trust Model)
• See Network Traffic Per Host, Per VM
• Export as CSV

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 Data Paths Across Overlay And Underlay

Connectivity Graphs NSX Firewall

• VM to VM, VM to Physical, VM to Internet
• Hop-by-Hop Path across Overlay (LDRs,
PANW Virtual FW
Edge Gateways) and Underlay (Physical
VDCs & VRFs). See V-To-P Boundary
VXLAN
• Correlated Problems And Performance
Converged
Metrics Across Virtual and Physical Infrastructure
• See Effective Firewall Rules and Security (Ex: UCS)
Policies across NSX and PANW in Service- VLAN
Chained Environment

Physical Network
PANW Physical Switch, Router
Firewall

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Simple & Contextual Search
Hi Shiv, what do you need help with today?

• Single pane of glass between virtual &

physical
• Google-like search for ease of use
• Time aware search (go back in time)
• Fewer clicks to find and identify issues
• Simplified interface, reduce learning curve
across admin teams

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NSX Infrastructure Monitoring and Best Practices Checks

Configuration, Health and

Consistency Validation
• VTEP Level
Misconfigurations
• VTEPS – Underlay Mapping
Checks
• Netcpa Health
• Hosts Version Validation
• LDR and Edge Config Issues
• Routing Misconfigurations/
Issues between LDR, Edge
and Physical Routers

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Thank You