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title: VMware Aria Operations for Networks
description: As of 17 July 2025, new automated installations of Red Hat® OpenShift® for VMware® are no longer available for new or existing deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances. You can still use or delete your existing Red Hat OpenShift for VMware automated installations until 16 July 2026. The service will no longer be available from 17 July 2026.
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# VMware Aria Operations for Networks
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As of 17 July 2025, new automated installations of Red Hat® OpenShift® for VMware® are no longer available for new or existing deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances. You can still use or delete your existing Red Hat OpenShift for VMware automated installations until 16 July 2026. The service will no longer be available from 17 July 2026.
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The VMware Aria Operations™ for Networks (formerly known as VMware vRealize® Network Insight) environment consists of two virtual machines (VMs), a Platform (UI) and a controller node.

![VMware Aria Operations for Networks diagram](../../images/opsmgmt-vrninw.svg "VMware Aria Operations for Networks diagram"){: caption="VMware Aria Operations for Networks networking" caption-side="bottom"}

The VMware Aria Operations for Networks Platform appliance provides the analytics, user interface, and data management and connects to the controller appliance, which collects from the various data sources such as NSX Edges, vCenter. All VMware Aria Operations for Networks components use IBM Cloud® Private portable IP addresses. VMware Aria Operations™ for Logs is configured as the syslog server for VMware Aria Operations for Networks.

![VMware Aria Operations for Networks components](../../images/opsmgmt-vrnicomponents.svg "VMware Aria Operations for Networks components"){: caption="VMware Aria Operations for Networks components" caption-side="bottom"}

## System requirements
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This architecture supports 3,000 VMs by using a Medium brick size.

| Attribute | Specification |
|-----------|---------------|
| vCPU | 8 |
| Memory | 32 GB |
| Disk (thin provisioned) | 1 TB |
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| Attribute | Specification |
|-----------|---------------|
| vCPU | 4 |
| Memory | 12 GB |
| Disk (thin provisioned) | 200 GB |
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## Networking
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Deployment of the VMware Aria Operations for Networks appliance requires two IP addresses from the Tooling private portable subnet. Network connectivity VMware Aria Operations for Networks requires access to the following items:
* vCenter Appliance
* VMware Aria Operations for Logs Appliance
* VMware NSX-T™ Appliances
* Tooling Expansion VXLAN
* Customer Networks
* NTP server (`time.services.softlayer.com`)
* IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Active Directory DNS

## Ports
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| Description | Port | Protocol |
|-------------|------|----------|
| Communication between the VMs of VMware Aria Operations for Networks | 443 | HTTPS |
| Services that require internet access \n `svc.ni.vmware.com` \n `support2.ni.vmware.com` \n `reg.ni.vmware.com` | 443 | HTTPS |
| VMware Aria Operations for Logs Ingestion API | 9000 | TCP |
| VMware Aria Operations for Logs Ingestion API over SSL | 9543 | TCP |
| User Interface | 80,443 | TCP |
| NTP |123 | UDP |
| SMTP | 25 | TCP |
| DNS| 53 | UDP |
| LDAP/LDAPS | 389, 636 | TCP |
| ESXi | 2055 | TCP |
| VMware vSphere® and NSX | 443 | TCP |
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## Authentication
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VMware Aria Operations for Networks user authentication is directly with an Active Directory Server.