Enabling Support for IPv6 Flow
Processing
VMware Aria
Operations for Networks
collects and
processes IPv6 flows from VMware
vCenter
and
NSX
data sources.IPv6 is designated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as the successor
to IPv4 providing the following benefits:
- Increased address length. The increased address space resolves the problem of address exhaustion and eliminates the need for network address translation. IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses compared with the 32-bit addresses used by IPv4.
- Ability for improved address autoconfiguration of nodes.
- On theSettingspage, clickSystem Configuration.TheSystem Configurationtab is visible only to theadmin user.
- Switch theIPv6 Flow Processingtoggle to true.As IPv6 addresses occupy more space in memory and disk, enabling IPv6 flow processing can reduce the platform and the collector capacity by up to 20%.
After you enable this feature,
VMware Aria
Operations for Networks
takes a few
minutes to start collecting and processing IPv6 flows.To view the list of IPv6 flows, from the
left navigation, go to and filter flows by
Flow Type
.