This two-day, hands-on course gives you the skills to deploy and use VMware vRealize Network Insight to ensure an optimized, highly available, and secure network infrastructure. You will learn the features, components, architecture, and benefits of vRealize Network Insight and how to use it to simplify daily operation and troubleshooting tasks.
This course is also available in an On Demand format. For more information, select this link: VMware vRealize Network Insight: Install, Configure, Manage [V3.x] - On Demand.
Product Alignment
vRealize Network Insight 3.6
Audience>
Intended Audience: Network professionals who design, build, operate, manage, and troubleshoot software-defined networking and security
Skills Gained>
Objectives: By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Explain the features and architecture of vRealize Network Insight
Describe the vRealize Network Insight installation and upgrade processes and requirements
Navigate the vRealize Network Insight GUI
Describe major use cases for vRealize Network Insight and their benefits
Use vRealize Network Insight to monitor, operate, analyze, and troubleshoot network and security problems
Prerequisites>
Prerequisites: Students taking this course should have general networking and security knowledge.
Before taking this course, students should take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge and experience:
VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.4]
VMware vRealize Network Insight Fundamentals
Outline>
Outline:
Course Introduction
Review course goals
Review course objectives
Review the course outline
Find additional resources after this course
Introduction to vRealize Network Insight
Identify the use cases for vRealize Network Insight
Access the vRealize Network Insight Home page
View vRealize Network Insight entity data
Perform searches for specific entity data
Create entity search queries
Find and use event data
vRealize Network Insight Architecture and Components
Identify the components of vRealize Network Insight
Describe the function of each component and how the components interact
Check the health of vRealize Network Insight components
vRealize Network Insight Installation
Deploy vRealize Network Insight components
Configure the pairing relationship between the platform VM and the proxy VM
Troubleshoot platform VM and proxy VM configuration problems
Explain how data sources export flow information
Add VMware vCenter Server to vRealize Network Insight
Add a VMware NSX data source to vRealize Network Insight
Configure IPFIX
Distinguish between the mechanisms used to scale vRealize Network Insight
Select the appropriate scaling mechanism for your environment
Describe how clusters are expanded
vRealize Network Insight Use Cases
Explain use cases for vRealize Network Insight
Create vRealize Network Insight applications
Plan and optimize micro-segmentation and security for applications
Explain the use of flow analytics
Use flow information from physical devices in security planning
Generate virtual machine path topologies between entities using flows
Extract useful information from path topologies
Validate NSX for vSphere deployments
Monitor and troubleshoot NSX for vSphere events
Operations and Troubleshooting Common Issues
Perform vRealize Network Insight operations by using VMware vSphere tags
Use the flow analytics dashboards to perform flow analysis
Use vRealize Network Insight tools to troubleshoot common problems
Generate and export support logs
Integrate VMware vRealize Log Insight with vRealize Network Insight
Our Clients
Our clients have included prestigious national organisations such as Oxford University Press, multi-national private corporations such as JP Morgan and HSBC, as well
as public sector institutions such as the Department of Defence and the Department of Health.
