Accelerating Application Security with Network Insight and External Integrations
Using VMware NSX, your applications can be seamlessly secured, throughout your entire environment. Whether it be on-prem or in the cloud, NSX has got you covered. The journey to application security using NSX’s micro-segmentation can be significantly accelerated by using vRealize Network Insight. As you…
Using PowervRNI to Quickly Add Data Sources
This is the first post in a series on how to use PowervRNI to manage your vRealize Network Insight environment. Starting with Data Sources. Data Sources Brief background; data sources in vRNI are endpoints from which vRNI retrieves information from. Examples are: vCenter, NSX, Switches,…
Introducing PowervRNI
I am excited to introduce PowervRNI to the world! In the 3.6 release of vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) in November, there was a public API added. Through this API, you can offload certain tedious tasks like creating applications and managing data sources. I was using…
How to define two NetFlow targets in vSphere VDS
Sorry, you actually can’t configure two Netflow targets in vSphere. ;-) HOWEVER! There’s a way around this limitation. Currently, the VDS only supports one Netflow target IP address to send NetFlow to. This limitation can cause some issues when you want to employ multiple Netflow…
vRealize Network Insight Bulk Import of Data Sources
I’ve been rolling out quite a few vRealize Network Insight deployments (labs, Proof-of-Concepts) and while the installation of Network Insight is a cake walk (see automated installer here), add the data sources can be time consuming if you have a bunch of switches and/or other…
Installing vRealize Network Insight with PowerCLI
The good people of vRealize Network Insight made the OVAs of Network Insight 3.2 Import-vApp safe, which means you can now install it with PowerCLI! Network Insight consists of two VMs; the Platform VM and the Proxy VM. The setup process looks like this: Deploy…