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Versa Director vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

Versa Networks and Broadcom are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Versa Networks is ranked #48 with an average rating of 9.0, while Broadcom is ranked #34 with an average rating of 8.3. Versa Networks holds a 0.4% mindshare in NMS, compared to Broadcom’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Versa Networks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.
Versa Director
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75% willing to recommend
vRealize Network Insight
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89% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

vRealize Network Insight and Versa Director compete in network management solutions. vRealize Network Insight seems to have the upper hand with its focus on network visibility and troubleshooting.

Features: vRealize Network Insight offers advanced network analytics, security optimization, and troubleshooting capabilities, providing deep insights into application dependencies and network flow patterns. Versa Director focuses on SD-WAN, with features like optimized connectivity, policy management, and network function virtualization, providing network agility.

Room for Improvement: vRealize Network Insight could enhance its SD-WAN features and improve scalability for large enterprises. It may benefit from integrating more cloud-based solutions and enhancing user interface intuitiveness. Versa Director might simplify its feature set to reduce deployment complexity and could improve documentation for ease of use. Additionally, greater emphasis on analytics could provide more comprehensive insights.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vRealize Network Insight offers a straightforward deployment model supported by detailed documentation and robust technical support. Versa Director provides flexibility with cloud and on-premise options but may present complexity due to its diverse feature set. Both products offer valuable support.

Pricing and ROI: vRealize Network Insight generally has a lower setup cost, focusing on network efficiency for a quicker ROI through improved performance and reduced downtime. Versa Director involves higher initial investments because of its comprehensive SD-WAN features, but it justifies the cost by providing long-term savings through enhanced network optimization and control.

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Categories and Ranking

Versa Director
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
48th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
vRealize Network Insight
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
34th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
47
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (38th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Versa Director is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.7%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
vRealize Network Insight0.7%
Versa Director0.4%
Other98.9%
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Featured Reviews

PriyankDubey - PeerSpot reviewer
PriyankDubey
Product manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
User-friendly and simpler than its competitors
Versa Director's best feature is the ease of configuration and customer and vendor management. Its UI is also excellent compared to Fortinet and Cisco Versa Director's on-prem SD-WAN hardware and SSL VPN software are not integrated, so you have to buy a separate subscription for the SSL VPN. In…
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Shaijith KB - PeerSpot reviewer
Shaijith KB
Senior System Specialist at General Directorate of Residence and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA)
Comprehensive management and detailed reports benefit operations while improvements are needed in support and maintenance
We have Tanzu and OpenShift. We have OpenShift, Canonical, and the Tanzu one. The Tanzu platform from VMware is a Kubernetes platform. We haven't completely installed Tanzu yet; we installed the vROps part. vRealize Network Insight is beneficial because you can control the East-West traffic. vRealize has a component called NSX, which has East-West traffic controlling and micro-segmentation, that is one of the best options, and we have the layer extension, layer 2 extension possible through NSX. If you have anything accountable in any business, even in a candy business, having proper accountability on what you are selling and buying will save a lot. If you don't know what you're selling and buying, you will end up with a loss. My team does not use the flow analytics feature; we have a security and network monitoring team, which is a different SOC team. I am using it as an administrator internally. We perform different tasks including costing analysis, capacity management, and many other things. vRealize Network Insight has a concern about the maintenance part, as it requires a person to monitor it completely. It's not something you install and your report will be generated automatically. You have to work on this properly to get the insights. vRealize Network Automation, vRealize Operations, and vRealize Network Insight are completely related to the network. I cannot say much about these network aspects because I am on the operations side, but overall, the vRealize suite is good for reporting perspective or any ISO-related documentation; this is very helpful. The product is called vRealize Operations Manager, and now it is referred to as Aria or vAria. I am now a Senior System Specialist. We use different metrics because we have multiple departments, and we can monitor utilization and comparisons with the previous year. On a scale of one to ten, I rate this solution a seven.
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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Versa Director's best feature is the ease of configuration and customer and vendor management."
"The most valuable feature of Versa Director is analytics."
"Versa Director is the fastest engineering tool and is ideal for use without product management."
"The most valuable functionality is some of the policy pieces that are quite useful."
"The tool's ease of configuration and use and the availability of information and artifacts through professional services and the web are key factors that customers find valuable."
"By doing dependency mapping, it makes migrations more efficient. There are less outages that require engineers to spend additional hours troubleshooting the migration failures."
"The gradual way the Network Insight shows you all the relevant information about your networks. It's pretty good. You can really dig deep deep inside and see where the problem is, where it comes from, what you have inside, how did you configure it. Also, it has alerts so you can have pretty much quite a big overview about your network. This is really something good."
"We haven't had any complaints about the stability of the solution or heard of any issues. None of our clients have mentioned running into bugs or glitches. There haven't been crashes."
"The most valuable feture is NetFlow to help us understand how VMs communicate with each other over ports that are known and ports that are also unknown to us. Our company is a security company, so it's very important for us to know exactly which VMs are doing what at all times."
"compare-to-competition; I would recommend the product. I don't think there is any other product like this on the market right now."
"The most valuable feature for us is that insight into what our network is really doing - it's a fairly complex network. Not having to go through thousands of lines of network configuration to find firewall ports that were open or closed, for various ports, was very valuable. It went out and found everything we need very quickly."
"Whenever we say "valuable" with respect to the network, it's more towards the security. The firewall rule issues it shows us and the recommendations that we get from vRNI are the most valuable features because they are actually making our network more secure."
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Cons

"It requires some simplification."
"Versa Director's deployment process is not the best."
"What needs improvement in Versa Director is maturity because, from an operating point of view, it's not mature enough. You'll still need to do a lot of research on Versa Director, so if it could mature faster, that would be very good."
"Versa could be more AI-oriented."
"There are some random glitches in the Web UI, but they are usually pretty cosmetic in nature. I don't really seem to use any browser other than Chrome with it. I also get some weird errors from time to time on the hardware NetFlow Collectors, where it doesn't sync data."
"The virtual appliance has rebooted."
"I want to be able to monitor a network flow that is approximately two weeks back, but I haven't found an easy way to do this."
"The solution can be improved by making it more compatible with other brands, allowing for better integration."
"While it's not exactly a feature, what normally happens when we are trying to look at the VM flow portion is - although Network Insight does have options to integrate a few physical switches into it - we can't really get an end-to-end flow of the network. We might be using a few switches that are not supported by Network Insight. That is where they can improve, in the support for more physical switches and network devices."
"I would like to see more interoperability on the firewall and low balancer sides."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to pricing because we pay here in Brazil, and all the costs are based on the dollar."
"When we talk about those micro-segmentation rules, there's an Export function. It is very macro-segmentation oriented instead. So if you choose an application, it will find the tiers within that application and say that it's communicating on, say, port 80 to a separate VLAN. There might be 200 machines in that other VLAN. You don't want to open port 80 at all of them. So we need a lot more granularity in those suggested firewall rules."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Having to buy separate licenses for the on-prem SD-WAN hardware and SSL VPN software makes Versa Director very costly compared to other solutions like Fortinet and Cisco."
"It reduces costs. It takes something that may be challenging and makes it more usable and visual by being able to bring in tools, seeing what their impact is, such as microsegmentation and application rationalization, and seeing it quickly."
"It has brought more money into our company."
"They should include the product in NSX because it's important to have it for deployment."
"It's an expensive product because we have a lot of nodes."
"Cost always has room for improvement, you could always make it cheaper. But I think it's a good value for what you pay for it."
"It's a little expensive, but for what you're getting out of the product, you often see the trade-off. It depends on the type of licensing you have. It might be a little too pricey for some."
"The solution has helped us to reduce time, increase performance, reduce costs, and even easily manage networks. We are probably seeing 10 to 20 percent labor savings because we are able to be very specific and focused on what we want to do. It ends up saving the customer money and makes us be more efficient on our cost deliveries."
"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
10%
Retailer
6%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Healthcare Company
8%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise41
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Versa Director?
Versa Director is the fastest engineering tool and is ideal for use without product management.
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What needs improvement with Versa Director?
Versa could be more AI-oriented.
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What is your primary use case for Versa Director?
We use the solution to monitor customer networks.
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What do you like most about vRealize Network Insight?
The tool's ease of configuration and use and the availability of information and artifacts through professional services and the web are key factors that customers find valuable.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vRealize Network Insight?
In VMware you have to buy a separate license for it. We have VVF and VCF-type of licenses, and if you want to go with this NSX and sort of higher-end professional services, you need to go with VCF....
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What needs improvement with vRealize Network Insight?
There is room for improvement as not all cases are getting resolved, and we often do not get L3 support directly, having to go through L1 and L2, resulting in delays that usually are a headache for...
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Also Known As

Versa Networks Director
Arkin
 

Overview

Versa Director is Versa Networks’ virtualization and service creation platform that simplifies the creation, automation and delivery of services using Versa WAN edge software, FlexVNF. Versa Director provides the essential management, monitoring and orchestration capabilities needed to deliver Versa’s Secure Cloud IP architecture network and security software services. Services supported by Versa include routing and advanced connectivity to direct traffic across multilink WAN access and simplify control for SD-WAN with embedded advanced security

Versa Networks

VMware vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security. It helps customers build an optimized, highly-available and secure network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. It accelerates micro-segmentation planning and deployment, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments.

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Sample Customers

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NTTi3, VCIX-NV, VMware Networking and Security Business Unit, Illumio, CompuNet
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