NSX-T federated data sources not populating global objects as expected in VMware Aria Operations for Networks / VMware vRealize Network Insight (vRNI)

Products

• VMware Aria Operations for Networks
• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

Globally created objects from federated NSX-T data sources will not populate as expected in VMware Aria Operations for Networks / VMware vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) versions 6.4 and after with advanced license

Searching NSX Global Firewall Rule will return Feature not supported with current license.  Please contact your administrator. 

NSX-T Federation behavior for an advance license user upgrading from an earlier version of VMware Aria Operations for Networks to advance license version 6.4 and above:

• The global entities that were searchable before the upgrade, will not be searchable after the upgrade.
• After the upgrade, site tagged flows are deleted after a certain duration of time and duplicate flows can appear.
• Some entities can have stale references to the Global Entities, for example, policy groups can have references to global groups, or local firewall rules can have references to the global firewall rules. Clicking these references displays a standard not supported by license message.

Environment

VMware NSX

VMware Aria Operations for Networks

Cause

NSX-T Federation is not supported with advanced license.

Resolution

This is expected behavior. Apply a higher license to enable this feature.

Additional Information

Known Limitations in Aria Operations for Networks