Runs NSX's management and control planes. Through its interface or API, admins create segments, VPCs and transit gateways and steer traffic; one copy may belong to a single VCF domain or be shared.
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Terms in this definition
- Agents (classic) API
First-generation Foundry Agent Service API, based on threads, messages and runs. It is deprecated, replaced by conversations and responses, and retires on 31 March 2027.
- NSX
Software that handles networking and security across VCF, covering firewalling, load balancing, NAT, VPCs, overlay segments and Tier-0/1 gateways.
- CONTROL
Granting this on a securable gives all other permissions on it too, making it the most powerful SQL permission. At database scope that includes UNMASK and ALTER ANY MASK. Warehouse access through the Admin, Member or Contributor workspace roles carries it.
- API
Short for application programming interface: a contract that client code calls programmatically, for example a web API secured with tokens or the Files, Images or Responses APIs.
- CRUD
Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.
- VCF domain
A single vCenter together with the storage, switching, NSX Manager and clusters it controls. Every VCF Instance has one for management, plus optional extra ones for workloads.
Related terms
- Shared NSX instance
NSX Manager instance serving several workload domains, so new workload domains join it instead of deploying their own; the management domain's NSX Manager is never used for this. Edge clusters may be shared too.