Versa Director vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

Versa Networks and VMware are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Versa Networks is ranked #50 with an average rating of 9.0, while VMware is ranked #34 with an average rating of 8.8. Versa Networks holds a 0.2% mindshare in NMS, compared to VMware’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Versa Networks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of VMware 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

50th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

vRealize Network Insight

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

34th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (39th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Versa Director is 0.2%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.6%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PriyankDubey

Product manager at Ernst & Young

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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NiteshKumar1

Principle consultant at Infosys

The tool's configuration is easy and artifacts are easily accessible through professional services and the web

The product is highly regarded, and many customers have been using it along with other VMware products like vSphere and VMware vCloud Usage Insight. However, recently, there's been a trend among customers, especially those using VMware for a considerable period, to explore the potential of migrating to the public cloud. The common concern among these customers is how the VMware products will perform in the public cloud environment. Migrating instances from VMware to different platforms is not easy, especially when dealing with many instances across multiple customers. Customers are keen to maintain the functionality of their existing VMware products but prefer to run them on the public cloud instead of on-premise servers. Our clients for vRealize Network Insight are enterprise businesses. I rate it a nine out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Versa Director is analytics."

"Versa Director is the fastest engineering tool and is ideal for use without product management."

"Versa Director's best feature is the ease of configuration and customer and vendor management."

"The most valuable functionality is some of the policy pieces that are quite useful."

"It's a very powerful, very manageable product."

"If we deploy NSX it shows us how the workflow will flow in the organization, what the roadblocks are, and what we need to do to overcome those hurdles. When we run this product, it gives us reports which describe problems with physical switches. We work with the network team to get them all resolved."

"As a troubleshooting tool, it's a level-3 troubleshooting-skills tool and it's very easy to use and very easy to find the information that you need."

"The solution has helped improve our organization by directing the network traffic using SDN."

"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."

"I like being able to see the flows coming in and out of the product. In terms of monitoring network flows, we use it to verify whether or not different servers/applications should be communicating with each other."

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

"It's very user-friendly in the sense that the querying is just regular language like you and I speak or write. You don't need to know any SQL-query type of language to be able to get what you want out of it."

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Cons

"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."

"It requires some simplification."

"Versa could be more AI-oriented."

"I want to see more in terms of microsegmentation. As of now, I can see the rules, but they are not in a readable format that I can convert to microsegmentation and can fit into NSX Manager."

"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 only reason I would not give it a nine or a 10 is for cost reasons. It seems to be one of those things that really belongs as part of the product inherently and not as an add-on. That would be my only concern."

"If it were more application-aware, more descriptive; if it were able to determine the application that is actually doing the communication, that would be easier. More application information: which user or account it's accessing, is it accessing this application, doing these calls, if it is accessing a script, what script is it accessing. Things like that would provide deeper analytics so I can track what's going on. It would not just be, "These people shouldn't be talking," but who is actually doing these calls."

"The virtual appliance has rebooted."

"After you use it for a little while you become accustomed to it but the layout doesn't feel very intuitive. You have to dig around and find the exact place where you can find the information, where you can actually see your east-west traffic, etc. I would like them to bring that information more to the forefront, instead of having to find it."

"In a very general way, I would like to see an improvement in interoperability with third-party product, from other vendors."

"The only issue we have is that the solution does not always capture the host names."

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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."

"I rate vRealize Network Insight's pricing a seven point five out of ten."

"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."

"It's an expensive product because we have a lot of nodes."

"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."

"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."

"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."

"We have spent less time investigating network flows, so it is absolutely cost-effective."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Retailer

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

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By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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?

Broadcom is known for increasing product prices, making them expensive compared to what people used to pay. I liken the subscription model to not truly owning what you pay for.

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What needs improvement with vRealize Network Insight?

Right now, I do not see a specific area for improvement. My main concern is understanding the intentions of Broadcom, which has acquired VMware. Broadcom should improve by going back to what was wo...

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Also Known As

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

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