VMware vRealize Network Insight 6.0 Released

VMware has released vRealize Network Insight 6.0.

What’s new:

• Network Assurance and Verification
  • Distributed Firewall and Edge Firewall support for NSX-T
  • Reachability Intent
  • Path Search using IP addresses
  • Enhancements to Network Map scale and improved Summary Panel
  • Support for additional data sources, which includes Cisco UCS, ASA, and Juniper QFX
• VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud
  • Display of Edge-to-Edge, Edge-to-Hub, Edge-to-GW Tunnel connectivity graphs on Edge dashboard
  • Path tunnel visibility on VeloCloud Edge dashboard
  • Support for SD-WAN VeloCloud Flows in Flow RTT
  • A new Internet Service Providers (ISP) dashboard to identify ISPs associated with SD-WAN VeloCloud entities
• VMware Cloud on AWS
  • Metrics for flow TCP RTT and re-transmit are now available
  • Addition of Top talker widget in the VMC on AWS Direct Connect dashboard
  • Calculation of flow metrics data at 5 minutes interval
• Search Enhancements
  • Ability to see search query that generates data in the pins. This capability is available only for a selected set of pins.
  • View a list of useful search queries along with its descriptions
• Pinboards
  • Share pinboards with LDAP groups, Active Directory, and vIDM users
  • Preserve search query in pin name along with the pin title
  • Persist changes to original pin at the time of pinning the pinboard
  • Apparent “Read Only” pinboard
• Backup and Restore
  • Enable backup and restore of configuration data, such as SNMP, data source, and other settings. This does not include flow data, any entity metrics, or events configuration
• Data Source connectivity via Proxy support
  • Ability to specify web-proxy for AWS, Azure, VMware Cloud on AWS, SD-WAN, Infoblox, and ServiceNow data source for data collection
• Metric charts
  • New metric charts that support multiple-dimensions, multiple entities, zoom-in, and additional functionalities
• vRealize Network Insight Cloud
  • VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud now available on VMware Cloud Provider Hub (USA region only)
  • VMware vRealize Network Insight Cloud now available in Sydney, Australia
• vRealize Network Insight and VMware HCX Integration
  • Support for HCX stretched L2 VLAN: Flow stitching, VM to flows mapping
  • Export vRealize Network Insight Application into to VMware HCX as Mobility Groups using public APIs and scripts
  • For more information, see vRealize Network Insight and HCX Integration and Integrating vRealize Network Insight with VMware HCX.
• Others
  • vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.2 Product Support Pack 1 supports the installation of vRealize Network Insight 6.0. See VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.2 Release Notes. For information about install and upgrade vRealize Network Insight by using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, see the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Installation, Upgrade, and Management Guide.

See the full release notes here.