Add-on that gives VCF insight into its networks: platform and collector appliances work together to examine micro-segmentation, flows, paths and network assurance.
Also called formerly VMware Aria Operations for Networks and vRealize Network Insight, VMware Aria Operations for Networks.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains VCF Operations for networks in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- VMware Cloud Foundation
Broadcom's platform for private cloud. It unifies management of NSX, vSAN, vSphere, VCF Automation and VCF Operations as one fleet; VVF, by contrast, lacks automation and cloud management.
Related terms
- Guided Network Troubleshooting
One-page investigation in VCF Operations for networks: pick a VM or application, and it maps dependencies, ties alerts and metrics together and highlights anomalies, logging the session as an incident.
- intent
A rule in VCF Operations for networks stating how the network ought to behave (say, MTU consistency, reachability or segmentation), regularly tested against a model of everything the network could do. Custom or system-supplied.
- IPFIX
IP Flow Information Export, a standard for sending flow records. Distributed Switches and NSX can export them to tools like VCF Operations for networks for analysis.
- launch-in-context
From a VM, host or NSX page in VCF Operations, jumps straight to the matching VCF Operations for networks view to review that item's network health.
- micro-segmentation planning
Uses flow data in VCF Operations for networks to cluster traffic into segments, viewed as a wheel or grid, and proposes firewall rules from them.
- network map
Interactive diagram in VCF Operations for networks showing every discovered network device, virtual or physical, with alerts overlaid.
- STIG
DISA's hardening guidance. Supported physical devices can be checked against it by VCF Operations for networks, and VCF Operations includes DISA benchmarks for compliance.