Comparing Feature Based on License
Edition
VMware Aria
Operations for Networks
features vary based
on the license you use. The following table shows the feature comparison between the various licenses offered by
VMware Aria
Operations for Networks
: Capability | Advanced License | Enterprise License | Cloud Service (SaaS) | SD-WAN On-premises/Cloud Service
(SaaS) | Universal License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Federated Network Analytics | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Interchangeable Deployment On-Premises
or SaaS | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Custom Dashboards | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Usability Large Screen Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Federal Information Processing
Standards (FIPS 140-2) Validated Cryptographic Modules | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Deployment Backup and Restore | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes (Only for On-Premises) | No |
Virtual Flows (VDS IPFIX, V2V,
V2P) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Physical Flows (NetFlow and
sFlow) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
NSX Firewall Microsegmentation
Planning and Operations (NSX IPFIX) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Visibility Across Third-Party
Switches, Routers, Firewalls, and Load Balancers | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Check Point firewall | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Public API | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
DNS Mapping (Import Bind File) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
DNS Resolution with Infoblox | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
NSX PCI Compliance Dashboard | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Security Planning and Visibility for
VMware Cloud on AWS | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Visibility for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition ,
Kubernetes, and OpenShift | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Visibility of NSX Container Plug-in
for OpenShift 4.x (Kubernetes cluster) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Network and Security Analytics (Top
Talkers, Anomalies, Outlier Detection, and so on) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Configurable and Extended Retention
Period for Data | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Arista BGP-EVPN underlay/overlay
visibility | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Cisco BGP-EVPN Underlay Visibility | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Cisco Catalyst 9000 (Network Map,
VM-VM Path, Intent) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Juniper Ethernet VPN (EVPN) VM to VM
path | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Basic Application Discovery (Names,
Tags, RegEx) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Application Dashboard (Alerts, Intent
Failures, Security Issues, and Guided Network Troubleshooting Incidents) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Guided Network Troubleshooting | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Crown Jewels Analysis | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Flow/Threshold Analytics and
Reporting | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Flow IPv6 traffic from VMware vCenter
and VMware NSX | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
ServiceNow Integration for Application
Discovery | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
NSX Advanced Load Balancer | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Flow Based Application
Discovery | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Azure VMware Solution (AVS) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Azure flow collection for Network
Security Group (NSG) | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
Google Cloud VMware Engine | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
VMware Cloud on AWS Direct Connect | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
VMware SD-WAN | No | No | No | Yes | No |
VMware Aria Operations (Formerly
vRealize Operations) Integration (On-prem)) | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
VMware Aria Operations (Formerly
vRealize Operations) Integration (SaaS)) | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
NSX Intelligence Integration | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
VMware NSX federation
visibility | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
VMware HCX (Troubleshooting, network
monitoring, L2 extension in VMware Cloud, and VM-to-VM overlay
path) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Assurance and Verification (Network
Map and Intents) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
MPLS routing support in Assurance and
Verification (Network Map and Intents) for Cisco Catalyst and Cisco ASR
9K devices | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
VMware Cloud on AWS
Support for L2 Extension (HCX) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Incomplete TCP Sessions
Insight | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Streaming Databus | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
VMware Cloud Partner
Navigator for Service Providers and Managed Service Providers
(MSPs) | No | No | Yes | Yes (only for Cloud/SaaS) | No |
Deployment Backup and Restore | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes (Only for On-premises) |
Live agent chat support | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
SaaS locations US West (Oregon),
Canada Central (Montreal), Europe (London), (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific
(Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |