Dashboards, reports and alerts can arrive with these VCF Operations adapter packages, whose main job is to connect the product to a data source like vCenter, vSAN or NSX. A few are active by default; the rest have to be installed or activated.
Also called management pack.
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Terms in this definition
- VCF Operations
VCF's console for running the fleet. It covers alerting, monitoring, capacity, reporting, log analysis and licensing alongside fleet management of identity, passwords, certificates and lifecycle.
- Job
A sequence of steps executed together on one agent or runner, or on the server for agentless work. While running, each occupies one of your parallel jobs.
- CONNECT
In SQL Server, the right to open a connection to a database. Fabric's equivalent is Read permission on an item, which allows connecting to a warehouse or SQL endpoint but not querying anything in it.
- Data source
Compliance benchmarks and analytics only cover systems added as data sources, which VCF Operations for networks (or VCF Operations via an integration) then collects from. Examples are physical switches, NSX Manager, vCenter, and flow exporters: the NSX distributed firewall with IPFIX and distributed switches with NetFlow.
- LIKE
Compares strings with a pattern that can contain the % and _ wildcards. Because it only understands character patterns, searching big volumes of text this way is much slower than using full-text search.
- vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.
- vSAN
VMware's software-defined storage, which combines local devices across a cluster's ESX hosts into one shared datastore. Available as OSA or ESA, VCF can use it as principal storage.
- NSX
Software that handles networking and security across VCF, covering firewalling, load balancing, NAT, VPCs, overlay segments and Tier-0/1 gateways.
Related terms
- Amazon RDS
AWS's hosted relational database service. Veeam's AWS integration can protect it, but it is not supported as a home for Veeam's configuration database.
- Application Gateway v2
Present-day Application Gateway SKU, Standard_v2 or WAF_v2, offering zone redundancy, autoscaling, a static VIP, Key Vault integration and header rewrite. It requires its own subnet, ideally a /24.
- Azure Data Factory
Managed data integration service for ETL and ELT, built from pipelines, copy activities, triggers, mapping data flows and integration runtimes. It works in batches rather than routing individual transactions.
- chispa
Test helper library, open source, that checks Spark DataFrames against each other. Databricks suggests it for integration testing in its CI/CD guidance.
- Data engineer
A person who builds and operates data integration, including pipelines that ingest and reshape data, cleansing, governance rules and the stores that hold data for analysis.
- Defender for Servers Plan 1
The lower of the two Defender for Servers tiers: it includes Defender for Endpoint integration, giving EDR and anti-malware, plus vulnerability assessment through an agent. JIT access, FIM and agentless scanning come only with Plan 2.
- disk publishing
Part of the Data Integration API: it lets a target server see the disks inside a backup as read-only (iSCSI on Windows, FUSE on Linux and Unix), so they can be inspected or scanned for malware without any restore.
- EDI
Electronic data interchange, the business-to-business exchange of documents, which Azure handles with integration accounts in Logic Apps.