Starting in VCF 9.0, services such as the VCF Operations adapter and collector, VCF Operations for networks and the VCF Identity Broker write entries in one structured pattern derived from RFC 5424. Parsers built for earlier layouts could need rework.
Also called unified log standard.
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Terms in this definition
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- VCF Identity Broker
Identity service introduced with VCF 9.0 that signs in users of fleet components by linking VCF Single Sign-On with the company's identity provider. It runs either embedded within vCenter or as a cluster of three appliance nodes.
- Pattern
A reusable answer to a recurring problem that places building blocks in context, explaining when, how and why to apply them and what compromises are involved.
- RFC
Request for Comments, the IETF's standards documents. NSX takes 100.64.0.0/10 from RFC 6598 for internal Tier-0 to Tier-1 transit links unless given another block at deployment, and VCF design guidance advises RFC 1918 private IPv4 space for infrastructure subnets.
- EARLIER
Within nested DAX row contexts, lets an inner calculation read a column as it stood in an outer pass; EARLIEST jumps to the outermost. Most people now use variables, which read more clearly.