Long-term retention of log data in VCF Operations for logs, written to an NFS mount. That mount has to permit unauthenticated guest reads and writes, and NFSv3 is what the design guide calls for.
Also called VCF Operations for logs archiving.
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Terms in this definition
- Long-term retention
Azure SQL feature for holding on to full backups well beyond the normal window: weekly, monthly or yearly copies can be retained for a decade.
- log
Text written by a component to record something that happened. VCF Operations for logs takes these in, and after integration with VCF Operations they can be searched from its Analyze page and Log Analysis widget.
- VCF Operations for logs
VCF add-on for collecting and analysing logs, deployed through fleet management as one node or a three-node cluster. Anyone moving from Aria Operations for Logs deploys it afresh rather than upgrading.
- NFS
Network File System, a file-sharing protocol from the Unix world, available on Azure Files, Azure NetApp Files and Blob Storage (as NFSv3).
Related terms
- Model archive
Archiving a model or a single version drops it from default listings yet keeps files and metadata, so references still resolve and restoring it later is possible; deletion, by contrast, cannot be undone.
- Partition switching
Moving an entire partition into or out of a table with ALTER TABLE ... SWITCH, changing only metadata. Both tables need identical structure and aligned indexes; sliding-window loads and archiving are built on this technique.
- Recovery Services vault
Where Azure Backup and Site Recovery keep their data; it offers soft delete, immutability and multi-user authorisation, but is the wrong choice for cheaply archiving files you already have.
- ZIP
Dark sites cannot use this download format to build a Prism Central instance. In general it is a way of archiving files.