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I’ve been rolling out quite a few vRealize Network Insight deployments (labs, Proof-of-Concepts) and while the installation of NI is a cake walk (see automated installer here), add the data sources can be time consuming if you have a bunch of switches and/or other data sources which need to be imported.

The Network Insight team has done a very good job on the architecture of the product, where they are using all kinds of cool API calls to push and retrieve information from the NI backend. This is mostly done via JavaScript, which means the users browser is executing … Read more

The good people of vRealize Network Insight made the OVAs of Network Insight 3.2 Import-vApp safe, which means you can now install it with PowerCLI!

Network Insight consists of two VMs; the Platform VM and the Proxy VM. The setup process looks like this:

• Deploy Network Insight Platform OVA to vSphere
• Browse to the Platform UI and:
  • Active your license,
  • Generate a Shared Secret for use in the Proxy VM deployment.
• Deploy Network Insight Proxy OVA to vSphere
• Login to the Platform UI and start adding data sources and consume all the goodness that is Network Insight!

Having to deploy … Read more