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. Cloud Foundation is pretty costly.
Virtualization Specialist at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 20
Feb 28, 2025
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.
I would rate the pricing a six out of ten. vRealize can improve and lower the price a little. Here, in Brazil, we have a distributor between the reseller and the manufacturer, and this distributor has a significant impact on the final cost of the product. But I do believe that they can lower it a bit. It's always a good choice to lower something, especially prices.
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.
Network Security Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Sep 19, 2022
I don't know about the licensing of the VRNI, and I'm on the deployment side of the product. The sales teams deal with pricing. It's my understanding that the price is per device. I'm not 100% sure, however.
Cost-wise it's reasonable, maybe because we have all VMware products under one umbrella, so they have given us a good discount. But overall, it's very efficient and rich in features.
SDDC Practice Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
MSP
Aug 29, 2018
It seems like it is fairly competitively priced. We are able to do fairly well with selling it. It seems well-priced, and we're able to do very well with the product.
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.
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. Cloud Foundation is pretty costly.
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.
The sales team often complains about the cost whenever we need to quote vRealize Network.
I rate vRealize Network Insight's pricing a seven point five out of ten.
I would rate the pricing a six out of ten. vRealize can improve and lower the price a little. Here, in Brazil, we have a distributor between the reseller and the manufacturer, and this distributor has a significant impact on the final cost of the product. But I do believe that they can lower it a bit. It's always a good choice to lower something, especially prices.
All VMware products are expensive. So, vRealize Network Insight is expensive.
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.
I don't know about the licensing of the VRNI, and I'm on the deployment side of the product. The sales teams deal with pricing. It's my understanding that the price is per device. I'm not 100% sure, however.
Cost-wise it's reasonable, maybe because we have all VMware products under one umbrella, so they have given us a good discount. But overall, it's very efficient and rich in features.
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 could be cheaper, of course.
It's an expensive product because we have a lot of nodes. They should include the product in NSX because it's important to have it for deployment.
It seems like it is fairly competitively priced. We are able to do fairly well with selling it. It seems well-priced, and we're able to do very well with the product.