Also named the VCF Operations collector in the 9.0 installer and design guides. This appliance pulls metrics from vCenter, NSX and similar endpoints and pushes them, one way only, up to VCF Operations.
Also called VCF Operations collector, VCF Operations collector.
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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.
- 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.
Related terms
- unified cloud proxy
Cloud proxy for VCF Operations that also handles log forwarding (to the logs add-on) and Log Assist. Each VCF Instance gets one by default when deployed by the installer.