The https://primary-node/admin page of VCF Operations, which displays cluster state and offers more node operations than Cluster Management does. With no fleet management available, VVF relies on it for adding high availability.
Also called VCF Operations admin UI.
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Terms in this definition
- HTTPS
Secure HTTP, wrapped in TLS. VCF products serve their web UIs and REST APIs this way on 443.
- VCF Operations
VCF's console for running the fleet. It covers alerting, monitoring, capacity, reporting, log analysis and licensing alongside fleet management of identity, passwords, certificates and lifecycle.
- State
A parameter in OAuth that carries custom data through the authorisation flow and back, as with the "Support state parameter" option in APIM.
- Cluster Management
Found under Administration > Control Panel in VCF Operations, this page reports on nodes and the cluster and has actions like Rebalance. More node operations are available from the administration interface.
- Fleet management
VCF Operations area, running on its own appliance, that centrally looks after licences, lifecycle, identity, certificates, passwords, tags and drift for an entire fleet. Aria Suite Lifecycle is not upgraded into it but replaced by it.
- VVF
Broadcom's offering for running enterprise VMs and containers, bundling vSphere and vSAN with simplified deployment and operations management. VCF builds on it, adding the integrated automation and cloud management that VVF does not include.
- HA
High availability means a service keeps running despite local failures, for instance by spreading replicas across zones.
Related terms
- cloud proxy support bundle
Diagnostic package of proxy logs and settings, kept apart from those for cluster nodes. Get it through the administration interface's Support Bundles (Cloud Proxy) option, which works only while the proxy can reach its cluster.