To scale the Intelligent Network Visibility for VMware Cloud Foundation validated solution, you use VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle to scale up or to scale out.
Platform Nodes
You can scale up or scale out the VMware Aria Operations for Networks platform node to meet the increasing load. You can scale up by increasing the virtual machine size or scale out to a platform cluster, by adding two or more platform nodes.
For production deployments of VMware Aria Operations for Networks, deploy all platform nodes as extra-large.
Collector Nodes
You can scale up or scale out the VMware Aria Operations for Networks collector node to meet an incresing load in the system. You can either scale up by increasing the virtual machine size or you can scale out by adding more collector nodes.
Scaling Vertically by Adding Resources
If you deploy the VMware Aria Operations for Networks platform or collector nodes in a configuration other than extra-large for platform nodes or large for collector nodes, you can reconfigure the virtual machines' vCPU and memory by using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. You scale up the platform node before scaling out to a cluster with additional nodes.
For more information, see System Recommendations and Requirements.
Scaling Vertically by Increasing Storage
You can increase the virtual machines' storage independently of vCPU and memory by using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. If the disk usage on the platform or collector nodes is high, adding more disk space helps you prevent service interruption.
Scaling Out by Adding Platform or Collector Nodes
VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle supports up to fifteen extra-large platform nodes in a cluster. To maintain a supported configuration, you must ensure that all platform nodes in the cluster are of the same size.
VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle supports adding more collector nodes based on scale growth to accomodate extra flows or monitored virtual machines inside the environment.
