VCF Automation provider object holding CIDR ranges set aside for VCF; organizations are given public addresses from it, and it is tied to provider gateways.
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Terms in this definition
- VCF Automation
Self-service platform in VCF for provisioning VM, Kubernetes and AI workloads. Providers manage regions and tenants in one portal, while tenants handle projects and consumption in theirs.
- Provider
The organisation that shares data in OpenSharing. Recipients also see a provider as a Unity Catalog securable, from which shares can be mounted as catalogs.
- CIDR
Notation for IP ranges that writes an address followed by a prefix length, as in 10.1.255.0/24; short for Classless Inter-Domain Routing.
- Set
Secret permission in Key Vault for writing secrets; some older material refers to it as Create.
- 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.
Related terms
- Quick Start
One-off wizard, offered only before any tenant exists, that sets up a ready-made All Apps organisation in VCF Automation, with its VPC, transit gateway, quota, IP space, provider gateway and region, in a single run.