Understanding
VMware Aria Operations for Networks
Feature Offerings

All

VMware Aria Operations for Networks

features are now available as a part of

VMware Cloud Foundation

With a purchase of

VMware Cloud Foundation

, you get

VMware Aria Operations for Networks

Enterprise edition.

The following table shows the features offered by

VMware Aria Operations for Networks

Capabilities
VMware Cloud Foundation network visibility and troubleshooting for vSphere, vCenter, NSX, HCX
Network Assessment planning for VMware Cloud Foundation and NSX Security & Network Capacity Planning
App-centric Flow-Based Network Troubleshooting and Analytics Path Visibility for Overlay Fabric and Underlay
Day 2 Network Operations with Assurance and Verification VMware Cloud Network Visibility
End-to-End Network Visibility Adjacent to VMware Cloud Foundation

Detailed Capabilities

VMware Cloud Foundation Network Visibility and Troubleshooting for vSphere, vCenter, NSX, HCX
vCenter plug-in with views of networking metrics and analytics (on the vCenter dashboard)
Deployment backup and restore for replicating the setup configuration
Deployment backup and restore for replicating the setup configuration
Virtual flows (VDS IPFIX, V2V, V2P)
Custom dashboards
VMware Aria Operations integration
Flow IPv6 traffic from VMware vCenter and NSX
NSX Load Balancer integration
NSX Advanced Load Balancer integration (AVI Separate purchase required)
NSX federation visibility
VMware HCX troubleshooting and monitoring, including the VM-to-VM path
VMware HCX network monitoring, visibility, L2 extension in VMware Cloud, and VM-to-VM overlay path
Visibility for VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ Integrated Edition (Separate Tanzu purchase required), Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift
Visibility of NSX Container Plug-in for OpenShift 4.x (Kubernetes cluster)

Network Assessment planning for VMware Cloud Foundation and NSX
Pre-Deployment Assessment Dashboards for network traffic
Trial Evaluation Mode with VMware Cloud Foundation
Single Licensing with VMware Cloud Foundation

Security & Network Capacity Planning
Crown Jewels security reachability visibility
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS 140-2) validated cryptographic modules
NSX PCI compliance dashboard
NSX Firewall network segmentation planning and operations (NSX IPFIX)

App-centric Flow-Based Network Troubleshooting and Analytics
Application discovery (names, tags, RegEx)
Flow-Based Application Discovery
DNS mapping (import bind file)
Application dashboard (alerts, intent failures, security issues, and guided network troubleshooting incidents)
Visibility of Incomplete TCP sessions
Flow/threshold analytics and reporting

Path Visibility for Overlay Fabric and Underlay
NSX visibility over network fabric
Physical flows (NetFlow v7 and v9, and sFlow)
Network visibility of logical routing and switching

Day 2 Network Operations with Assurance and Verification
Network Assurance and Verification
Guided network troubleshooting
Streaming databus to export information learned from the platform
Network Map topology visualization
Traffic path and redundant path analysis
NSX Day 2 ops (topology view, health checklist, edge load balance dashboard)
Public APIs to view and access network metrics
Usability large-screen support
VM and IP address network analysis

VMware Cloud Network Visibility
VMware Cloud on AWS network visibility connected to VMware Cloud Foundation
VMware Cloud on AWS Direct Connect network visibility connected to VMware Cloud Foundation
VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts network visibility connected to VMware Cloud Foundation
Azure VMware Solution network visibility connected to VMware Cloud Foundation
Azure flow collection for security groups for network visibility connected to VMware Cloud Foundation
Google Cloud VMware Engine network visibility connected to VMware Cloud Foundation
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution network visibility connected to VMware Cloud Foundation

End-to-End Network Visibility Adjacent to VMware Cloud Foundation
Visibility across third-party switches, routers, firewalls and load balancers.
Network device auto discovery
ServiceNow integration for app discovery, issue resolution email
Cisco Catalyst 9000 network map, VM-to-VM path, intent
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) with network assurance and verification support
Cisco BGP-EVPN underlay/overlay visibility
Arista BGP-EVPN underlay/overlay visibility
Juniper Ethernet VPN VM-to-VM path
DNS resolution with Infoblox