IP Flow Information Export, a standard for sending flow records. Distributed Switches and NSX can export them to tools like VCF Operations for networks for analysis.
Also called IP Flow Information Export.
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Terms in this definition
- Standard deployment type
A Foundry deployment type billed per token that keeps processing of prompts and responses inside the Azure geography of the resource, meeting data residency needs at lower volumes.
- Flow
The unit of work inside a Lakeflow pipeline that takes data from a source, transforms it and lands it in a destination like a streaming table. Streaming flows either append or update, and
CREATE FLOWlets you declare a flow apart from the table it feeds. - NSX
Software that handles networking and security across VCF, covering firewalling, load balancing, NAT, VPCs, overlay segments and Tier-0/1 gateways.
- 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.
- VCF Operations for networks
Add-on that gives VCF insight into its networks: platform and collector appliances work together to examine micro-segmentation, flows, paths and network assurance.
Related terms
- Industrial vSwitch
Designed for real-time industrial traffic, this vSphere Distributed Switch 9.0.0 mode can only be chosen when creating a switch, and it turns off health check, IPFIX, port mirroring and Network I/O Control, among others.