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.
Also called FC.
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Terms in this definition
- 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.
- LSDOU
The sequence in which Group Policy is processed: the local policy first, followed by site, domain and organisational unit policies. The nearest, last-processed setting takes effect unless Enforced or Block Inheritance alters that.
- DHCP
Azure delivers each NIC's private IP to the guest operating system using this protocol, so keep the OS set to obtain addresses automatically and configure any static IP on the Azure NIC.
- Table options
Set only at creation with
OPTIONS, these key-value storage settings can't be altered or dropped afterwards; on Delta tables they also show up among the table properties. - WHERE
Limits a SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE to just the rows meeting a condition. Omit it, and the statement hits every row.
Related terms
- Cisco UCS
Servers from Cisco that can run Nutanix software. LCM handles firmware for models M6 to M8, and Foundation Central does not need DHCP for nodes under Intersight management.
- DHCP
Automatic assignment of IP addresses over the network. It is unsupported on CVMs, though nodes rely on it to be discovered by Foundation Central.
- Foundation Central Appliance
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.
- Phoenix
Certain LCM upgrades run inside this environment, and Foundation Central applies its ISO to bare-metal nodes. It is the image Nutanix nodes start from when software is being installed or repaired.
- PXE
A standard for booting over the network. Foundation Central can bring bare-metal nodes into Phoenix this way, or through an ISO mounted over IPMI.