Understanding VMware Aria
Operations for Networks Feature Offerings
VMware Aria
Operations for Networks
Feature OfferingsAll
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
: 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
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) |
Pre-Deployment Assessment Dashboards for network traffic |
Trial Evaluation Mode with VMware Cloud Foundation |
Single Licensing with VMware Cloud Foundation |
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) |
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 |
NSX visibility over network fabric |
Physical flows (NetFlow v7 and v9, and sFlow) |
Network visibility of logical routing and switching |
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 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 |
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 |