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 vRealize Network Insight 6.x
• 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

Environment

VMware NSX

VMware Aria Operations for Networks

Resolution

NSX-T Federation is not supported 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.

Additional Information

Using VMware Aria Operations for Networks Pages 641 and 642