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VMCommando
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NSX for Netflow Monitoring?

Hello,

I am new to NSX, however I am interested in its netflow monitoring capability for doing traffic analysis in my virtual environment. I would like to know from others with more experience, can NSX be setup to do netflow monitoring with a simple configuration or should I learn more about it and possibly take a course before implementing it? I don't want to implement it if I could potentially cause issues in my environment due to my lack of knowledge with how it interacts with my virtual distributed switch.

I likely won't use it for many other purposes than traffic analysis just to start -- I am not so much worried about cost of using this feature alone.

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dtaliafe
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If you're primarily interested in traffic analysis I would look at vRealize Network Insight.  It is simple to configure your virtual distributed switches to send netflow data to it.  As far as I know NSX doesn't inherently provide any additional monitoring functionality to your virtual distributed switch.

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VMCommando
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I've used vRealize before but never Network Insight. I will check this out. Thanks for the advice.

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