VMware Aria Operations for Networks
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.
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.
System requirements
This architecture supports 3,000 VMs by using a Medium brick size.
| Attribute | Specification |
|---|---|
| vCPU | 8 |
| Memory | 32 GB |
| Disk (thin provisioned) | 1 TB |
| Attribute | Specification |
|---|---|
| vCPU | 4 |
| Memory | 12 GB |
| Disk (thin provisioned) | 200 GB |
Networking
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
- NSX-T or NSX-V Appliances
- Tooling Expansion VXLAN
- Customer Networks
- NTP server (
time.services.softlayer.com) - IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Active Directory DNS
Ports
| Description | Port | Protocol |
|---|---|---|
| Communication between the VMs of VMware Aria Operations for Networks | 443 | HTTPS |
Services that require internet accesssvc.ni.vmware.comsupport2.ni.vmware.comreg.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 |
Authentication
VMware Aria Operations for Networks user authentication is directly with an Active Directory Server.