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:
| 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 |
