Encrypts data travelling from the ESXi host to the proxy in Network mode, switched on with the matching option. Expect extra host CPU and possibly slower jobs.
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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.
- Network mode
The slowest VMware transport, though it works with any setup: ESXi reads VM data and passes it over the LAN to the proxy via NBD on the management network.
- EXPECT
Sets a data quality rule on a dataset in a SQL pipeline. To discard failing rows, add
ON VIOLATION DROP ROW; to halt everything,ON VIOLATION FAIL UPDATE; with neither, those rows are kept and recorded in the logs. - CPU
The processor that runs a VM's workload (central processing unit); while B-series VMs run under their baseline, they accumulate CPU credits.
Related terms
- NBD
A way for VADP backup tools to read virtual disks over the network. For encrypted disks, SSL has to be turned on, which is known as NBDSSL.