Bringing ESX hosts into the SDDC Manager inventory of VCF, where they are validated and linked to a principal storage type and a network pool so clusters can use them. Decommissioning takes unassigned hosts back out.
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Terms in this definition
- ESX
VMware's bare-metal hypervisor, installed on each host in a VCF fleet. Up to version 9.0 it was known as ESXi.
- SDDC Manager
Per-instance VCF appliance that automates jobs such as workload domain deployment, lifecycle of ESX, NSX and vCenter, importing vCenter, stretching clusters, and handling passwords and certificates. VCF 9.0 positions it within VCF Operations, whose console is replacing its separate UI.
- 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.
- WHERE
Limits a SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE to just the rows meeting a condition. Omit it, and the statement hits every row.
- principal storage
Fixed at cluster creation and impossible to switch later: vSAN (ESA or OSA), VMFS over FC, or NFS v3. Supplemental storage, by contrast, can be added afterwards.
- network pool
Subnets defined in SDDC Manager for one layer 2 domain. Hosts joining a VCF domain get static IPs from it automatically for their vMotion and vSAN/NFS/iSCSI VMkernel adapters.
- UNASSIGNED
Status for a commissioned ESX host that shows in Unassigned Hosts in SDDC Manager. A network pool is attached, but no workload domain cluster has taken the host in yet.