VMware vRealize Network Insight: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.1]

Audience

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

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-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage [v3.0]
• VMware vRealize Network Insight Fundamentals

Course Modules

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 collector VM
• Troubleshoot platform VM and collector VM configuration problems
• Explain how data sources export flow information
• Add VMware vCenter Server® to vRealize Network Insight
• Add a VMware NSX-T® 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
• Integrate VMware vRealize® Operations™ with vRealize Network Insight
• Import a vRealize Network Insight instance into VMware vRealize® Suite Lifecycle Manager™

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-T and NSX for vSphere deployments
• Monitor and troubleshoot NSX-T 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