Content library

In the Ultra Transcenders books

2V0-17.25

Each book explains Content library in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Repository

  A group of images or artefacts in a container registry that share one name and differ by tag. Names can include slash-separated namespaces, but every repository is handled separately.

• vCenter

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

• 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.

• Shares

  A relative weighting for dividing a contended resource such as memory, CPU, network bandwidth or disk I/O: double the shares earns double the entitlement. Reservations, by contrast, are guarantees and limits are ceilings.

Related terms

• Check out and check in

  How a content library versions VM templates. Checking out produces a VM you can edit from the template; checking it back in, once the VM is suspended or powered off, stores it as the template's next version.

• Content Library Administrator

  Delegating library management is documented as granting this sample vCenter role, which carries every content library privilege, as a global permission.

• local library

  A content library that lives on, and originates content from, one vCenter. Once published, libraries on other vCenter instances can subscribe and sync.

• OVF default security policy

  Applied to a content library, this policy checks each OVA or OVF item against the certificate it was signed with.

• Supervisor images content library

  A subscribed content library that pulls Supervisor Kubernetes releases from Broadcom's feed, or from a local mirror where there is no internet access. From 9.0 this lets Supervisor releases arrive separately from vCenter updates.