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# source: src/content/solutions/en/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vcf-operations-for-networks.md
# route:  /en/solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vcf-operations-for-networks/
title: VCF Ops for Networks
tags: [monitoring, network, virtualization]
vendors: [vmware]
summary: "Visibility into the traffic between workloads: who talks to whom, over which path, and what the firewall rule has to say about it."
photoNeed: "A vSphere or VCF console on a real screen at soulTec: a cluster view, a running task, an inventory tree, so the reader should recognise the UI"
stub: false
draft: false
kind: product
formerly: Aria Operations for Networks
editions: [vcf]
addon: false
sourceNote: "Broadcom, VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 and VMware vSphere Foundation 9.1: Feature Comparison & Upgrade Paths, read 2026-08-28"
vendorName: VMware VCF Operations for Networks
status: current
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## What it is

Network visibility across the platform: flows between VMs, paths through the NSX overlay,
and the rules that apply on the way. Until VCF 9 it was called Aria Operations for
Networks, and before that vRealize Network Insight.

## What VVF does not have

It is part of the VCF entitlement and not of VVF. Anyone running vSphere Foundation who
needs this visibility has an upgrade to VCF in front of them.