Key Vault feature producing an encrypted blob of a stored object; restoring it works only into a vault within the same subscription and the same Azure geography as the original.
Also called Key Vault.
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Terms in this definition
- Access policies
Older permission model for Key Vault, now superseded by the Azure RBAC model.
- BLOB
Short for binary large object: raw binary data, like pictures, audio, video or documents, that only an application can make sense of. Azure keeps these files as blobs in Blob Storage.
- subscription
Entitlement bought for a product under VCF 9.0 licensing, carrying a set capacity. Where active ones share the same site, unit and product, their capacity is combined into licences, which are then allocated to vCenters.
- Azure geography
Grouping of Azure regions such as United States; restoring a Key Vault backup is allowed only inside the geography it came from.
Related terms
- Microsoft 365 Backup
Billing is pay-as-you-go for this service, which protects SharePoint, OneDrive and Exchange data with backup and restore. Express restore points on SharePoint and OneDrive bring data back faster than standard ones.
- Non-Nutanix ESXi
Marketplace, Flow, Nutanix Disaster Recovery, and Backup and Restore are all unavailable when Prism Central sits on hosts that no Nutanix cluster owns. Setting it up takes an ESXi Administrator login.
- Veeam Plug-In for SAP on Oracle
Lets SAP on Oracle administrators keep using BR*Tools for backup and restore, while the data itself lands in Veeam repositories, with the plug-in acting as the go-between.