To start your VMware Aria Operations for Networks trial, you must sign up for VMware Cloud Services with your VMware ID.

Sign up to VMware Aria Operations for Networks

When you sign up for a VMware Cloud service, or when someone invites you to join a service, you receive an email invitation containing a link that you use to sign up.

Procedure

  1. Use the following link to sign up for the VMware Aria Operations for Networks trial service:
    • Sign up for VMware Aria Operations for Networks trial service.

      You sign up for VMware Cloud services with your VMware ID. If you do not have a My VMware account, you create one as you sign up.

    You will receive the service activation link to log in to VMware Aria Operations for Networks through email within one hour.
    Note:
    • To request for the trial service, you must use the same email ID that you entered at the time of creating VMware ID.
    • Ensure that you are not opted-out of VMware marketing emails and check your junk folder for any email communications from VMware. If you don't receive any activation links within one or two days, contact [email protected] to get the manual link from the Cloud services.
  2. Click the link in your invitation email.
  3. Sign up for VMware Cloud:
    1. If you have a VMware ID, follow the steps to sign up to VMware Cloud with your VMware ID credentials.
    2. If you do not have a VMware ID, follow the steps to create your My VMware account, and sign up to VMware Cloud.
  4. Log in to VMware Cloud with your VMware ID. If you are not redirected to the VMware Aria Operations for Networks page, go to https://www.mgmt.cloud.vmware.com/.

Start VMware Aria Operations for Networks Trial

VMware offers a full-featured 30 days VMware Aria Operations for Networks free trial to all the new organizations. Any new tenant or organization can register for the VMware Aria Operations for Networks trial offer.

VMware Aria Operations for Networks is available for purchase globally and hosted in US West (Oregon), Canada Central (Montreal), Europe (London), Europe(Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Mumbai).

During the free trial, you can use all the features of VMware Aria Operations for Networks with the following limitation:
Entities Maximum Trial Limits
VMs 2,000​
Flows 500,000
Physical Devices 30
Network Assurance and Verification Rules​ 15,000​
VMware SD-WAN Edges​ 15
Reach out to VMware Sales, if you need to extend the trial scale limits.
Note: You also get an additional 15 days grace period before the permanent termination of the trial period. Contact VMware Sales to extend the trial period beyond 45 days.

Service terminates after 45 days, which result in the deletion of the service data. Any reactivation post service termination requires a new collector deployment and configuration.

Note: VMware Aria Operations for Networks trial offer is not applicable for existing organizations or new users to the existing organizations that have already used the trial offer.

Prerequisites

Sign up to VMware Aria Operations for Networks

Procedure

  1. Log in to VMware Cloud services with your VMware ID.
  2. Select VMware Aria Operations for Networks.
  3. To start the trial, from the Select region drop-down menu, select a hosting region.
    Note: Select the hosting region carefully. After you start the trial, you cannot change the hosting region.
  4. Click CONTINUE.
    Note: If a valid subscription for VMware Aria Operations for Networks exists, then you are on-boarded as a license user and not as a trial user.

Become a Customer

You can purchase a service plan at any moment during the trial period. VMware service billing starts right after you purchase the service plan.

Procedure

  1. Log in to VMware Aria Operations for Networks.
  2. Click BUY NOW on the Green banner on the Welcome page.
  3. Click BUY SUBSCRIPTION and follow the instruction to complete the purchase.
  4. Refresh the VMware Aria Operations for Networks UI to update the subscription changes.