Viewing Edge Device Details

You can use the
VMware Edge Device
page to get an overview of your VMware edge devices available in
VMware Aria Operations for Networks
.
To access this page, search for
Edge Device
and in the search result list, click the entity you want to view.

Overview

In the
VMware Edge Device
page, you see:
Section
Details
Overview
You see:
  • A summary of your Edge devices, including the alert chart, byte, packets, flows, and session numbers.
  • List of NSX Edge properties, NSX Edge services, and NSX Edge appliance VMs.
  • The topology details.
Alert
You see:
  • A list of various alerts details.
Flows
You see:
  • Various flow analytics, such as total bytes flowing through NSX Edge, total packets passing through NSX Edge, total flows, and total sessions through NSX Edge.
Metrics
You see:
  • Various metrics, such as CPU usage of NSX Edge appliance VMs, memory usage of NSX Edge appliance VMs, network usage of NSX Edge appliance VMs, and network usage per vNIC of NSX Edge.

Consideration

In some rare case, you may get incorrect flow information in the
VMware Edge Device
page, if:
  • The IP of a VM is unknown to
    VMware Aria Operations for Networks
    .
  • Default gateway is configured incorrectly in a VM.
  • There are more than two edges hops for north-south flow from a VM.
  • The Edge is part of an ECMP (Equal Cost Multi Path routing) cluster.
  • The Edge is connected to an Universal logical distributed router.