VMware Cloud Universal is a new flexible subscription program that delivers enterprise-class multi-cloud infrastructure and operations, including compute, storage, networking, management, and modern application services. VMware Cloud Universal allows
customers to purchase entitlements to deploy VMware Cloud infrastructure flexibly across private cloud, local cloud, and public cloud. Since some month vRNI (vRealize Network Insight is incl. in vRealize Cloud Universal Enterprise Plus

  1. Check the Services the are comsumted today in the VCS (Vmware Cloud Servies Portal)
VCS (VMware Cloud Services Portal)

2. If no Network Insight is there go to Subscriptions on the left side. At this point here is no option to create a subscription.

Subscriptions

3. Check that a fund is available for that, if not just added it.

Payment Methods

4. Go to Services (A) and search for „sub“ (like sucscription) (B) to find Subscription Manager. After Some second the vRealize Cloud Subscription Manager appears and click to „Request Access“ (C)

5. Now your are in the Subscription manager and select the subscription

6. Create a Subscription.

7. Select vRealize Network Insight and click next

8. Select a License Model (A). In this case CPU Sockets

9 . Select Check Quantitiy (A) and Select years for subscription (B) and click next (C)

10. Checkout:

11. Now Check whether you have the right Payment Method (A) and Confirm Purchase (B):

12. Subscription is created

13. Go back to VCS Portal and look in subscriptions. Status of Subscription is still under „created“. it takes around an hours until you can access the service.

14. Go in Serivces (A) in VCS and click to vRealize Network Insight (B)

Now You can access vRealize Network Insight and you continue with the installation process. Use the proxy collector image the is suggested from vRNI Cloud and you can download it while the installation process (do not use the On-Prem Image).