VMware Partnership
Assure Performance in VMware Environments
Partnership Overview
Monitor Performance and User Experience in VMware Environments with NETSCOUT
NETSCOUT has partnered with VMware to provide visibility for application performance and user experience as digital transformations occur. NETSCOUT and VMware’s initial technology partnership is first-of-its-kind wire-data visibility that, to-date, was unavailable as you moved to a VMware NSX Software Defined Network (SDN).
Migrating to a VMware NSX environment is a major transformation for any enterprise. NSX offers simplified management, micro-segmentation security, provisioning agility, and improved data center economics. As your organization benefits from accelerated service velocity, enhanced security, and rapid disaster recovery, successful migration will depend on overcoming the lack of visibility into application dependencies and user experience. Your bottom line depends on continuous availability and quality end-user experience; anything less, puts your business at risk.
What is needed is a performance management solution that reduces mean time to repair (MTTR), eliminates visibility gaps, and provides a streamlined view that will scale across your VMware ESX, NSX, and SD-WAN deployments, alongside multi-cloud and legacy data center environments.
VMware Partner Designation and Certification
NETSCOUT Systems, Inc. is an Elite tier member of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program. The VMware TAP program works with best-of-breed technology partners to leverage a comprehensive set of VMware technical and marketing services, support, tools, and expertise to deliver enhanced value to joint customers.
NETSCOUT’s NSX-T edition of vSTREAM has also been certified as VMware Ready for Networking and Security, VMware’s highest level of endorsement for products and solutions created to benefit their customers.
Outcomes That Matter
Performance Management Delivered
Assure Quality User Experience
Improve Efficiency and Success
Lower Mean Time to Repair
Reduce Deployment Complexity
Real-Time Visibility into Performance
Use Cases
NETSCOUT NSX Edition of vSTREAM Bridges the East-West Application Visibility Gap
NETSCOUT leverages the power of packet data through its patented Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) technology and is designed to scale to the needs of the world’s largest enterprises and service providers. The NSX-T edition of vSTREAM is unique in delivering application visibility, troubleshooting, and assurance directly from the hypervisor. nGeniusONE, with industry-leading support for more than 1,000 applications, including voice, video, and data, uses ASI-generated smart data from vSTREAM to pinpoint the source of application disruptions impacting the user community.
Unrivaled, end-to-end visibility into business application services, along with contextual workflows to speed problem resolution are available with the NSX-T edition of vSTREAM and nGeniusONE, making the solution both easy for a Level 1 responder to use and powerful for an expert to operate. Rather than looking at individual elements in isolation, the nGeniusONE solution offers an overarching view into the performance characteristics of applications and user experience, while validating that micro-segmentation security controls have been properly implemented. These views expose underlying service dependencies that help IT teams to more effectively manage health, availability, security, and user experience issues across their NSX data centers.
NSX-T Edition of vSTREAM with nGeniusONE delivers rich ASI intelligence for your organization’s mission-critical VMware NSX data center and improves collaboration among all members of the IT team, from NetOps to DevOps, AppOps, SecOps, and Cloud Ops.
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FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is deep visibility important in VMware NSX-T environments, and how does NETSCOUT deliver it?
As organizations modernize their infrastructure with VMware NSX-T, maintaining visibility into east-west and north-south traffic is critical for ensuring application performance, security, and service availability across dynamic virtualized environments.
NETSCOUT’s NSX-T edition of vSTREAM captures packet-based Smart Data directly from the VMware hypervisor to provide deep, real-time visibility into application and network activity. This enables IT teams to quickly identify performance issues, eliminate blind spots, and maintain operational continuity across VMware environments.
How does NETSCOUT help organizations maintain visibility during workload and data migrations to VMware platforms?
Migrating workloads and data to VMware platforms can create operational complexity and visibility gaps that make it difficult to maintain application performance and user experience throughout the migration process.
NETSCOUT provides continuous visibility before, during, and after migration to VMware NSX and ESX environments, enabling organizations to monitor application and network performance throughout the transition. This helps IT teams proactively identify issues, reduce operational risk, minimize disruption, and ensure a smoother migration experience.
Why does NETSCOUT use an agentless monitoring approach for VMware workloads?
Traditional monitoring approaches that rely on software agents can consume resources and create blind spots in highly dynamic virtualized environments, limiting visibility and slowing troubleshooting efforts.
NETSCOUT’s agentless architecture, powered by Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) technology, complements traditional agent-based monitoring by providing real-time network and application visibility without requiring software agents. This approach simplifies deployment, eliminates visibility gaps, enhances actionable intelligence, and improves monitoring effectiveness across VMware workloads.
What VMware certifications and partnership status does NETSCOUT hold?
NETSCOUT is an Elite-tier member of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program, demonstrating a strong commitment to validated integration and interoperability within VMware environments.
In addition, the NSX-T edition of vSTREAM is certified as VMware Ready for Networking and Security, VMware’s highest level of partner solution endorsement, helping assure customers of trusted performance and compatibility.
Why is NETSCOUT integration valuable for reducing Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) in VMware environments?
When performance issues occur in complex VMware environments, IT and network teams need rapid insight across applications, infrastructure, and networks to quickly identify the root cause and minimize business disruption.
NETSCOUT’s integration with VMware delivers deep, real-time visibility across application, network, and infrastructure layers, enabling faster root cause identification and accelerated troubleshooting for issues affecting services such as Webex and other business-critical applications. By helping teams rapidly isolate and resolve issues across hybrid and virtualized environments, NETSCOUT helps reduce Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR), minimize downtime, improve user experience, and increase operational efficiency.
How does NETSCOUT Smart Data complement existing observability and monitoring tools?
Many observability and monitoring platforms rely primarily on logs, metrics, or software agents, which can leave critical visibility gaps at the network layer.
NETSCOUT’s packet-based Smart Data complements existing observability investments by delivering high-fidelity, real-time network and application intelligence derived directly from network traffic. This complementary approach enhances cross-domain visibility and correlation, eliminates blind spots, accelerates root cause analysis, and provides actionable insights for proactive troubleshooting and optimization. By extending the value of existing monitoring and observability platforms, NETSCOUT helps organizations achieve more comprehensive operational visibility across VMware environments.
