Certificate signing request: your public key plus identifying details, sent to a certificate authority, which returns a signed certificate. VCF Operations can create them for VCF products.
Also called certificate signing request.
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Entity that issues digital certificates; point-to-site VPN needs one only when clients authenticate with root and client certificates, not when RADIUS or Entra ID is used.
- Certificate
Key Vault object holding an X.509 certificate, whose associated key and secret are managed alongside it.
- 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.
- CRUD
Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.
- 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.
Related terms
- BYOCA
Lets you chain a cloud issuing CA in Microsoft Cloud PKI to an existing private CA, AD CS for instance; that private CA signs the CSR that Intune generates.