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 |
