Basic L4 balancer bundled with vCenter, serving a vSphere Supervisor and its workloads. Only VDS-networked Supervisors can use it; NSX-networked ones rely on Avi or NSX load balancing.
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Terms in this definition
- Basic
Low-cost Log Analytics table plan where ingestion is cheap but each query is charged per GB and runs at workspace scope. Full KQL and simple log search alerts are supported; standard log search alerts are not.
- vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.
- vSphere Supervisor
Formerly known as vSphere with Tanzu. It gives vSphere clusters a Kubernetes API, declarative in style, through which VKS clusters, vSphere Pods and VMs are run inside namespaces; it underpins VCF Automation.
- NSX
Software that handles networking and security across VCF, covering firewalling, load balancing, NAT, VPCs, overlay segments and Tier-0/1 gateways.
- ELT
Extract, load, transform: raw data lands in the target system first and is transformed there. See ETL for the opposite order.
Related terms
- simplified Supervisor
Lightweight Supervisor option for vSphere, quicker and cheaper to deploy because there is just one VM for the control plane, with one network interface, VM Service as its sole service, no load balancer, and full features available to add afterwards. Foundation Load Balancer in its single-NIC, one-arm layout is supported only with this option.