Provisions and automates applications on public and private clouds, looking after their life cycle on bare-metal servers or VMs. Backups of it have to be taken separately by hand.
Also called Self-Service, formerly Calm, Calm, NCM Self-Service (Calm).
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Terms in this definition
- Virtual machines
Infrastructure-as-a-service compute giving complete control of the operating system, making it a fit for lift-and-shift moves and for software relying on OS-level pieces like COM.
Related terms
- Azure Deployment Environments
Retiring on 22 February 2027 (Microsoft points people to Azure Verified Modules, Bicep or ARM deployments and Azure DevOps or GitHub workflows). Until then, it gives developers self-service app infrastructure built from curated IaC definitions kept in dev center catalogs, governed by platform engineers.
- Default Project (Self-Service)
Only upgraded systems have it: taking an older Prism Central to 2022.6 or above brings it in to hold on to current Self-Service entities. Brand-new installations never see it.
- delegation mode
In Enterprise Manager's vSphere Self-Service Backup Portal, this setting limits tenants to certain VMs, chosen by tag, by role or by VM privilege; single sign-on is supported with tags alone.
- Functional requirement
Describes a capability the system needs, for example a self-service catalogue, and is one kind of technical requirement. Qualities such as those in AMPRS belong instead to non-functional requirements, which cover how well that capability is delivered.
- GCP
Google's public cloud. With a GCP account, Self-Service can manage applications running there.
- Local Consumption Interface
Gives developers a UI for creating and managing their own VMs, volumes, VKS clusters and networking within a vSphere Namespace, delivered as a Supervisor Service. VVF relies on it for self-service, whereas in VCF that job falls to VCF Automation.
- mstts:express-as
SSML extension from Microsoft for choosing a speaking style for a voice, such as calm, gentle or advertisement_upbeat. If the style is not valid, the entire element is disregarded.
- My Access
Self-service website, at myaccess.microsoft.com, for browsing access packages and asking to be given one; approvers sign in there too, to accept or deny what has been asked for. Licensing is Microsoft Entra ID P2 or ID Governance.