Data Retention Design for VMware Aria Operations for Networks for Intelligent Network Visibility for VMware Cloud Foundation

Configure the retention parameters for VMware Aria Operations for Networks according to your organization's policy for compliance and governance.

VMware Aria Operations for Networks supports configurable data management. The data is divided into the following categories:

Table 1. Data Retention Attributes

Category	Minimum Value (Default)	Maximum Value
Alerts	1 month	13 months
Entities and Configuration Data	1 month	3 months
Metrics	1 month	13 months
Flows	1 month	1 month
Miscellaneous Data	NA	100 GB of additional disk space

Table 2. Design Decision on Data Retention for VMware Aria Operations for Networks

Decision ID	Design Decision	Design Justification	Design Implication
INV-VAON-CFG-019	Use the default retention period of one month for the VMware Aria Operations for Networks platform node.	Keeping the default value for retention minimizes required storage resources administrative efforts.	None.