VMware vRealize Network Insight 4.2 Released

VMware has released vRealize Network Insight 4.2.

What’s new:

• Application Discovery and Visibility
  • Application Discovery
    • REGEX Builder to detect patterns, Save/Edit templates of the discovery configurations, Bulk-Save of discovered applications.
  • Application Dashboard
    • Zoom-In to visualize more members (VMs, Physical IPs, and Kubernetes Services) and connections between them.
    • Visualize tiers by type: vCenter, Kubernetes, VMware Cloud on AWS.
    • View and filter unprotected flows​.
    • ‘What’s New’ section​ to identify changes to this application in the last 24 Hrs.
• VMware NSX Data Center
  • NSX-V
    • Support for Flow Round Trip Time (RTT) and Virtual Infrastructure Latency (vNIC-pNIC, pNIC-vNIC, vNIC-vNIC and VTEP-VTEP)
    • Edge Load Balancer (LB) support
    • LB configuration and metrics
    • VM/IP to VM path with LB
  • NSX-T
    • Identify users who made the changes (CREATE, UPDATE) and show on the timeline
    • Policy Manager: Link Policy Info to NSGroup, IPSet, L2 Network, Firewall Rule
  • VM-VM underlay topology improvements
    • Simplified numbering​, details on entity click
    • Number tooltip on entity hover, group numbering when entity numbers are grouped, and a path through PNIC context
    • Complete VM-VM path when NSX Edge configured with trunk interface.
• Third-Party Device Support
  • Fortinet Firewall support through FortiManager.
  • User Assisted Network Information Framework (UANI)​ SDK: UANI allows the addition of third-party devices which are not supported natively in vRealize Network Insight.
• Container Visibility and Security
  • Support for Red Hat OpenShift version 3.11 and below
  • Support for defining applications using Kubernetes constructs such as Kubernetes Service Name and Namespace
• Public Cloud – AWS, VMware Cloud on AWS
  • Support for AWS instance type, EC2 subnets, and region property
  • AWS Security Group change tracking
  • UX/UI enhancements for VMware Cloud on AWS data source page
• Other Enhancements
  • Pinboards: ​More intuitive and readily noticeable Edit and Share options. Easy pin, drag and move option with a prominent visual indicator, inline edit for the title and description field.
  • Analytics:
    • Detect abnormal flows using Flow RTT in the ‘Flow Insights’ dashboard
    • Auto-enable ‘Dynamic Baseline’ analytics during Application Definition
    • New scope of Applications in the Threshold Configuration page
  • Plan Security Micro-segmentation:
    • Guidance to identify flow links between wedges
    • IPset/IP address included when recommended Firewall rules are exported .csv format
  • One-click support bundle creation

See the full release notes here: Release Notes