Martijn Smit

Martijn is a proud Dutchman (stroopwafels!) and has spent around 16 years as an IT professional, mostly focused on network operations. Going from web hosting help desk operator, to server support, to third line networking engineer, to data center consultant. He has been with VMware for 4 years. He spent 2,5 years as an NSBU SE in the Benelux and is now a Technical Marketing Architect for vRealize Network Insight.

Recent Posts

Using Pinboards to Personalize vRealize Network Insight

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vRealize Network Insight provides administrators with a wealth of information related to VMs, flows, segments, and more. As you gain experience using this powerful tool, you’ll inevitably begin to gravitate toward using the widgets and searches that are most relevant to your organization’s own unique needs. This is where pinboards come into play. Pinboards serve Read more...

Constructing Search Queries for vRealize Network Insight

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One of the most used features of vRealize Network Insight is its search interface. It provides an easy way for administrators to locate the information they’re looking for, especially when the volume of objects being monitored makes manual browsing impractical. What you might not realize, however, is that the search interface allows you to enter Read more...

vExpert Cloud Management September 2020 Blog Digest

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  Hey everyone! We took a small break due to all the VMworld awesomeness, but here it is! Your vExpert Cloud Management Blog Digest for September 2020. Every month we share a handful of blogs created by our vExpert Cloud Management Community. These blogs are written by industry professionals from around the vCommunity and often Read more...

What’s New – vRealize Network Insight 6.0 integration with vRealize Operations 8.2

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In a previous blog post, vRealize Network Insight integration with vRealize Operations, we looked at version 1.0 of the vRealize Network Insight Management (vRNI) Pack for vRealize Operations. That was the first step in integrating the networking data from vRNI directly into vRealize Operations (vROps). It includes features like streaming of vRNI events into vROps, Read more...

Now Available: vRealize Network Insight 6.0!

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We are incredibly excited to announce the availability of vRealize Network Insight 6.0, as of today. The announcement blog has a high-level overview of the new capabilities, and we’ll take you on a deep dive into the technical features in this post. Buckle up; it’s going to be a wild ride. Because we’ve got so Read more...

Integrating vRealize Network Insight with VMware HCX

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vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) and VMware HCX are a match made in migration-heaven. Use vRNI to discover and lay boundaries around the applications, plan out the migration, and determine the impact of network performance. Then HCX comes in and takes the application boundaries, groups them into migration waves to migrate multiple applications simultaneously, without impact. Read more...

Importing Recommended Firewall Rules from vRealize Network Insight into VMware Cloud on AWS

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vRealize Network Insight has been an instrumental tool in helping customers migrate to the cloud. Organisations have been using vRealize Network Insight to plan out their migrations and make sure the network requirements are met, and no unexpected network performance degradation happens. Another area where vRealize Network Insight helps with migrations is the security planner. Read more...

The Remote Worker Pinboard in vRealize Network Insight

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By: Karthic Kumar In my previous blog post, Monitoring Network Performance for Remote Workers, we saw how the vRealize Network Insight Remote Worker pinboard could help VDI admins monitor the VDI environment. In this blog post, we will go step-by-step to create this VDI pinboard and customize it further. vRealize Network Insight is a comprehensive Read more...