Not to be confused with Foundation Central, the Prism Central app. This separate VM has a simple interface of its own and, on day 0, can image nodes with no cluster formed or build compute clusters backed by external storage.
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Terms in this definition
- Foundation Central
A Prism Central app for building clusters from factory-imaged nodes and reimaging registered ones from afar, with nobody needing to go on site. DHCP vendor-specific options tell nodes where to find it.
- Prism Central
A standalone instance, made up of either one VM or three in scale-out form, for monitoring and managing many clusters centrally.
- App protection policy
A set of Intune rules on managed apps that safeguards organisational data, for example by demanding a PIN or preventing copy-paste and save-as into personal apps. It works whether or not the device is enrolled.
- External storage
Lets an NCI compute cluster grow separately from its capacity by using an outside array: Dell PowerFlex or Everpure FlashArray (previously Pure Storage). Nodes set up this way give up near-sync replication and firmware updates through LCM.
Related terms
- HPE
Maker of servers including DX and DL (G10) models, whose firmware LCM can update. Bare-metal imaging of its iLO machines is possible with Foundation Central Appliance.
- QCOW2
A disk format used by default when Prism Central exports an OVA, with VMDK as the other choice. Foundation Central Appliance images also come in it.
- TAR
Packaging used for the Foundation Central Appliance bundle and for deployment files that install Prism Central at dark sites. It is a file archive format.