VMware vRealize Network Insight: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0] – On Demand

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 the infrastructure supporting your applications

• Network professionals and who design, build, operate, manage, and troubleshoot software-defined networking and security, and application owners who need visibility across multi-cloud environments.
  

1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 vRealize Network Insight Use Cases
• Explain use cases for vRealize Network Insight
• Create vRealize Network Insight applications
• Perform application discovery
• 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

6 Operations and Troubleshooting Common Issues
• Perform vRealize Network Insight operations by using VMware vSphere® tags
• Use the flow analytics dashboards to perform flow analysis
• Set and configure thresholds to identify aberrations in the behavior of entities
• Use vRealize Network Insight tools to troubleshoot common problems
• Generate and export support logs
• Integrate VMware vRealize® Log Insight™ with vRealize Network Insight