Gives one external NVMe client access to a volume group across TCP, configured in Prism Central. It carries much tighter restrictions than iSCSI access and is unavailable where network segmentation is in use.
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Terms in this definition
- External
API Management virtual network mode in which the gateway stays public but can call private back ends inside the VNet.
- NVMe
Flash Optimized Azure Managed Redis keeps keys and hot values in memory while moving colder values, roughly 80 percent of capacity, onto this high-speed flash storage.
- Volume group
Related vDisks managed together as a single unit, separately from the VMs they connect to, whether directly or by iSCSI.
- TCP
A transport protocol that is connection-oriented.
- Prism Central
A standalone instance, made up of either one VM or three in scale-out form, for monitoring and managing many clusters centrally.
- iSCSI
Protocol that carries block storage over TCP on port 3260. When recovering files, Azure Backup's script mounts recovery point disks as local volumes using it.
- WHERE
Limits a SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE to just the rows meeting a condition. Omit it, and the statement hits every row.
- Network segmentation
Moves part of the CVM traffic, for example backplane or Volumes, onto a separate network. Unless there is a specific need, Nutanix advises keeping the unsegmented default.
Related terms
- NQN
Names an NVMe client. Attaching one over NVMeoF/TCP to a volume group means giving Prism Central this identifier.
- Nutanix Volumes
Presents storage straight to physical hosts or guest operating systems, in the form of volume groups, using iSCSI or NVMeoF/TCP.