VMware Aria Operations for Networks provides end-to-end network visibility across VMware NSX-T, VMware SD-WAN, VMware Cloud, public cloud, and other multi-cloud deployments. Cloud, network, and security administrators can use VMware Aria Operations for Networks to view usage details across all their clouds, both public and private. This document introduces you to the VMware Aria Operations for Networks service.

VMware Aria Operations for Networks provides you visibility into the network flows and security of your on-premise and cloud applications, and helps you administer your NSX-based Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). Use VMware Aria Operations for Networks to monitor and diagnose problems with your network resources.

For example, you can check your network flows, your virtual machine and NSX security rules, plan for optimal micro segmentation, and take other network management actions.

To successfully on-boarded with VMware Aria Operations for Networks, you must do the following:

Task Procedure
Sign-up for VMware Cloud Services and request for VMware Aria Operations for Networks trial Sign up to VMware Aria Operations for Networks
Note:
  • Ensure you are familiar with the trial limits. See Trial limits.
Log in to VMware Aria Operations for Networks Start VMware Aria Operations for Networks Trial
Deploy Collector and connect to Cloud Platform Setting up VMware Aria Operations for Networks Collector (OVA)
Note:
  • Ensure you allow the HTTPS port 443 in the firewall to communicate between the Collector and the following domain:
    • us.pd.ni-onsaas.com (US region)
    • uk.pd.ni-onsaas.com (UK region)
    • de.pd.ni-onsaas.com (Frankfurt region)
    • au.pd.ni-onsaas.com (Sydney region)
    • jp.pd.ni-onsaas.com (Tokyo region)
    • ca.pd.ni-onsaas.com (Canada region)
    • in.pd.ni-onsaas.com (India region)

    You can locate a region from the browser URL that you use to access the service. For example, in the URL https://ca.www.mgmt.cloud.vmware.com/ni, ca indicates CA (Canada) region. Similarly in the URL https://uk.www.mgmt.cloud.vmware.com/ni, us indicates the UK region.

    Note: The default URL https://www.mgmt.cloud.vmware.com/ni indicates US region.

    For details about other ports and protocols required for VMware Aria Operations for Networks, see VMware Ports and Protocols.
(Optional) Deploy Collector for VMware SD-WAN Setting up Operations for Networks Collector (AMI) in AWS for VMware SD-WAN
Note: If your environment does not have a vCenter server, and you want to deploy your collector in a cloud environment then you can deploy your collector in AWS.
Add data sources in VMware Aria Operations for Networks Adding a Data Source in VMware Aria Operations for Networks

After you successfully on-board with VMware Aria Operations for Networks, you can view the data source related information, do micro-segmentation plannings, plan application security and migration, and many more. To know more, see Using VMware Aria Operations for Networks (SaaS).