Cloud account

In the Ultra Transcenders books

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Each book explains Cloud account in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• vCenter

  Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.

• NSX

  Software that handles networking and security across VCF, covering firewalling, load balancing, NAT, VPCs, overlay segments and Tier-0/1 gateways.

• VMware Cloud Foundation

  Broadcom's platform for private cloud. It unifies management of NSX, vSAN, vSphere, VCF Automation and VCF Operations as one fleet; VVF, by contrast, lacks automation and cloud management.

• AWS

  Short for Amazon Web Services, Amazon's public cloud. Linking AWS accounts to Microsoft Defender for Cloud brings them under its recommendations and protections.

• 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.

• VCF Automation

  Self-service platform in VCF for provisioning VM, Kubernetes and AI workloads. Providers manage regions and tenants in one portal, while tenants handle projects and consumption in theirs.

Related terms

• Cloud zone

  VM Apps construct in VCF Automation: a slice of a cloud account's compute, labelled with capability tags and governed by placement rules, that given projects may use as a deployment target.

• Soft match

  If matching on sourceAnchor fails and the cloud account lacks an immutableId, Microsoft Entra Connect tries to join an on-premises user to an existing cloud one using their primary SMTP address or userPrincipalName.

• VMware Cloud Foundation account

  Cloud account, or adapter, in VCF Operations for monitoring VCF objects like workload and management domains. Its name comes from the VCF Instance name given in the VCF Installer.