Where the VCF design guide keeps detailed designs, organised per component into alternative models that each have their own design elements. A blueprint's chosen model can be exchanged for any other in the same category.
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Terms in this definition
- WHERE
Limits a SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE to just the rows meeting a condition. Omit it, and the statement hits every row.
- VCF design guide
Broadcom's design documentation for VCF 9.0, comprising the Architectural Options, Design Blueprints and Design Library; each design element in it is tagged as a requirement, a recommendation or a choice.
- Azure Machine Learning component
Reusable building block for a pipeline, versioned and self-contained, much like a function: it declares a name, inputs and outputs, and bundles the command, code and environment it runs.
- Agent identity blueprint
Template in Microsoft Entra Agent ID that holds credentials for one type of agent and obtains tokens for the agent identities created from it. Policies like Conditional Access set on it reach all those identities; Azure RBAC roles cannot be assigned to it.
Related terms
- Architectural Options
The part of the VCF 9.0 design guide that sets the models available for each component side by side, with their benefits and implications, for components from fleet deployment and VCF Operations through to storage, the network fabric and NSX management. Each model's detailed design is in the Design Library.
- Design blueprint
Ready-made, opinionated fleet architecture from the VCF Design guide covering a typical layout, say one small site or many sites over several regions. Use it unchanged, or swap individual models from the design library.
- Design choice
Requires picking one option among several, whether that is an individual setting or a lower-level model from the Design Library; requirements and recommendations belonging to the options not picked then fall away. It is one type of VCF design element.
- Management Domain Model
This model in the VCF design library chooses simple or high availability models for NSX Manager, VCF Automation and VCF Operations and sets the management domain's first cluster model: single-rack, Layer 2 multi-rack, or stretched as a day-2 change. The domain it describes hosts SDDC Manager plus every domain's NSX Manager and vCenter, and in the first VCF Instance also the fleet components.