Networking requirements

Before you deploy nodes and build up clusters, it is important to get familiar with all the networking requirements that vRealize Operations has. These requirements must be met to ensure not only successful deployment, but also successful operational continuity of the nodes and full VMware support in case of issues.

Most of the requirements are pretty standard industry requirements for any piece of software, such as having IP and FQDN forward and reverse DNS lookup resolution for all nodes. Others are more specific to the product, such as using one IP subnet and layer 2 network, or having 5 ms or less latency between all analytic cluster nodes.

It is worth mentioning that, although introduced a while ago, Internet ...

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