It's deployed on the cloud as well as on-premises. Its setup depends on what you want. If you're just deploying the vRNI appliance and getting it online, getting it set up, and then just doing a basic plug-in to, for example, NSX-T, that's really simple and easy. When it comes to building out applications and doing some of the more advanced features set, you need a little schooling in that. The more complex you try to use a tool, the more complexity there will be, which means there will be a learning curve, and that's expected.

The initial setup is straightforward. Deploying the appliance and running the wizard to complete the configuration is simple and not challenging.

We completed the deployment in two days, and after two days everything was in place. We then left the solution running for four weeks, as per our company policy for the client. Four weeks is a good amount of time to capture all the traffic in the environment. The deployment should have been shorter, but we encountered issues unrelated to vRNI, such as authentication, which prolonged the process. I believe the deployment should have taken only a few hours.

The initial setup is straightforward as long as you follow the detailed step-by-step instructions supplied with the solution.

I rate vRealize Network Insight's deployment a nine out of ten. Small configurations can be completed in a couple of hours. But more complex configurations can take several days, especially if you need to get the design approved first. The criticality of the environment also plays a role in determining how much time is needed.

I was involved in the initial setup and it's really straightforward. It's not complex at all. Anyone can do it.

The initial was straightforward. You can have it up and running in one hour.

The initial setup was straightforward.

This is not a hard solution to set up. It's very straightforward and quite simple. I'd rate the ease of setup a five out of five. 

It was a super easy setup. I deployed it myself in about an hour, and I have been working with it ever since. We deployed it, initially, for an assessment and then we turned on the demo license and I said, "Okay this is awesome", and we bought it.

It's incredibly powerful for how easy it was to set up.

The initial setup is very easy. It's an easy setup, like plug-and-play. It's just a matter of deploying the virtual appliances and making a few configurations to start collecting data. The hardest part is analyzing the data, but the network consultants help us with reports to determine the filters we need to apply on the NSX firewalls.

Only one person is required for maintenance. We have just one analyst who knows how to handle vRealize Network Insight, and it's okay. We don't need additional personnel because our customers have small environments. So, we don't require a whole team of two or three, or four people to work with vRealize Network Insight.

The initial setup was very easy. The deployment is just OVAs and it is really small, really fast to deploy. Just make 'em talk to each other and everything's happy.

I was involved in the initial setup and it was straightforward.

The initial setup was very easy to do. But we did have the technician there, walking us through the whole process. He was familiar with it. But it was not that difficult of a setup.

We have not had the opportunity to upgrade to a newer version.

We have upgraded it, we applied one patch. It was easy because it's appliance-based, so we just got the pack and uploaded it.

The initial setup is very straightforward. It's set-it-and-forget-it.

It was pretty easy to install and the documentation for laying it out seems to be easy to follow, design-wise. It was very straightforward.

We've upgraded four times with it and the upgrading was pretty easy as well.

I was not involved in the initial setup.

The initial setup was very straightforward. A big reason why we come to these shows, like VMworld 2018, is to get some more knowledge and training and talk with the professionals. We worked with VMware on the setup, and with our network engineer and our sysadmins. With their help, it was pretty easy to implement, no challenges there.

I was involved in the initial installation. It was very straightforward and simple: Give it an OVA and IP address and point to the vCenter and switches. 

We have not gone through an upgrade process yet, but I don't think it will be an issue. We will see when we get there.

I was not involved in the initial setup but we just did an upgrade and, while I wasn't directly involved, the overall experience was pretty good. It worked as expected and then we worked with support for any issues that we found during the upgrade process.

We have an assessments team that we use for the assessments. If we are doing a no-fee assessment when we are installing, we have a team who will do this and help the customer run it for 30 days for a trial run. 

We typically set it up ourselves from an assessment perspective, then when we do services delivery, we typically will do that as part of our service. We will bake that in to whenever we do an NSX engagement, and we will always do at least a vRNI assessment. Then, this helps us be able to sell that product to them as well. When they see the visualization and the ease in which you can monitor the environment, we typically we try to sell vRNI in addition to NSX.

I was involved in the initial setup. It was straightforward. It took about 10 minutes.

It is straightforward. You need to have an IP address. You don't need to do any additional configuration of the appliances, but once you deploy the appliances then you need to do the configuration on the cause-all, which I think it's a bit more not that straightforward and not that intuitive. It could be better to have the initial configuration of the pliers to be over a web interface or some other wizard.

The implementation is quite straightforward. We were able to go ahead and install it with the plans and recommendations that were provided.

We have also upgraded it. There are two proxy platform VMs when it comes to Network Insight. In the newer versions what I discovered is that you can directly install it through the UI, so it's a little automated. In the older versions, we had to do it from the CLI. So this is a new feature in it.

I set it up. It was pretty straightforward to set up. It was pretty easy, especially compared to some other VMware products.

I have also had the opportunity to upgrade it to a newer version. It was easy. It wasn't bad at all.

I was involved in the original deployment. Very straightforward, very easy to deploy.

The upgrade experience for vRNI is probably one of the easiest out there. You enable a support tunnel, you let them know, and they do it all remotely, and it just works

The initial setup was trivial.

I have had the opportunity to upgrade it to a newer version several times. It has actually improved over time. It's much easier now. You can now just upgrade with the GUI. A single click of a button and off it goes. Before, you had to download all the packages and then manually SFTP them to the server and manually hit the install.

I was involved in the initial setup. It was really straightforward.

Although I wasn't involved in the setup, from what I heard, it was quite straightforward, in terms of configuration, etc.

For Network Insight, the setup is very straightforward.

The setup was straightforward, it was good. I did it personally and it was easy.

The initial setup of the solution is very, very straightforward. New users will find it quite simple to set up.

According to our deployment teams, as long as they have the right access to the environment, and they've created the right ports it just takes a couple of hours. The deployment is quite quick.

I was involved in the setup in terms of deploying the OVA files. It was straightforward.

I was involved in the initial setup. It was pretty straightforward.

The initial setup was simple. It took about an hour.

For the most part, it was pretty straightforward. Some of the advanced configurations were a little bit more difficult.