Martijn Smit

Martijn is a proud Dutchman (stroopwafels!) and has spent around 15 years as an IT professional, mostly focused on network operations. He has been with VMware for 3 years. He spent 2,5 year as an NSBU SE in the Benelux and is now a Technical Product Manager for Network Insight.

Recent Posts

vRealize Network Insight Search Poster for NSX for vSphere

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Continuing our Search Poster series, we’ve arrived at the NSX for vSphere Search poster! Using the search engine inside VMware vRealize Network Insight can be a revealing experience. It has every single bit of data you ever wanted to see about anything in your infrastructure and it’s available at your fingertips. Because of the vast Read more...

Introducing the Network Insight Network Flow Search Poster

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Using the search engine inside VMware vRealize Network Insight can be a revealing experience. It has every single bit of data you ever wanted to see about anything in your infrastructure and it’s available at your fingertips. Because of the vast amount of available data, the search engine is extremely versatile and there are many Read more...

What’s New with vRealize Network Insight 4.2

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We’re excited to announce the release of VMware vRealize Network Insight 4.2, with another ton of new awesome features! With new data sources, network flow latency metrics, another open-source project, application discovery and public cloud enhancements, and a ton of small things that just makes you love using the product; let’s take a deep dive Read more...

Persona Based Pinboards in vRealize Network Insight

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VMware vRealize Network Insight can be a great visualization tool to simplify network & security operations for virtual, physical and cloud environments. Because Network Insight correlates all aspects of your environment together, it can be used as a monitoring and troubleshooting tool across multiple disciplines. These disciplines, or personas, all want different bits of data Read more...

Introducing the VMware vRealize Network Insight Python SDK

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I’m very excited to introduce the VMware vRealize Network Insight Python SDK! Ever since the release of the public API for Network Insight almost 2 years ago, customers have taken advantage of the enormous breadth of data that is available and exposed by Network Insight. Anything that you can find in the user interface is Read more...

Introducing the Network Insight Virtual Machine Search Poster

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Using the search engine inside VMware vRealize Network Insight can be a revealing experience. It has every single bit of data you ever wanted to see about anything in your infrastructure and it’s available at your fingertips. Because of the vast amount of available data, the search engine is extremely versatile and there are many Read more...

Sending VMware vRealize Network Insight Notifications to Slack

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The ability to notify on events and all searches is one of vRealize Network Insight’s best-kept secrets. Join me in this blog and let’s zoom in on those events and notifications and learn how to send them to Slack. vRealize Network Insight is available for on-premises deployment or as a VMware Cloud Service called VMware Read more...

Finding Outlier Behaviour with vRealize Network Insight

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vRealize Network Insight not only visualizes all network communication within your network and provides a wealth of information for troubleshooting, it can also help you to catch outlier behavior in virtual and physical servers using advanced analytic capabilities. If a certain VM breaks the pattern of its like-minded VMs, or if it starts showing network Read more...