VRNI Deployment Considerations

VRNI Deployment Considerations

Features

vRNI enables us to identify applications and visualise the traffic flows between and within each application, as well as the flows connecting to and from the physical world.

Flavors

On-premise installation

Saas

Components

Platform appliance

Proxy VM ( Collector appliance)

Data sources

On-prem vCenter, NSX-T Manager

VMware on AWS

Amazon AWS

Azure

Physical networking devices

IPFIX

When a vcenter data source is added the vRNI UI wll configure the netflow collector in Distributed Switch & dvPortGroup automatically for you.

Identity Sources

LDAP

VMWare Identity Manager

Application definition

  • Manually selecting vms
  • Vsphere tags
  • Vm naming convention
  • Integration with cmdb
  • Flow based discovery

Flow based discovery

vRealize Network Insight uses machine learning and statistical analysis to discover applications automatically and groups the VMs into their respective applications and tiers.

Flow Based Application Discovery is available only for Enterprise License users using XL brick.

Application topology

Flows

Export firewall rules

References

  1. https://www.vgarethlewis.com/2020/07/14/vrealize-network-insight-vrni-on-prem-part-1-installation/
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoK27_17B74
  3. IPFIX: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2146326\
  4. https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2016/09/vrealize-network-insight-vrni-3-0-install-configure.html

Architecture

vRealize Network Insight – Architecture