A VCF Operations package file, an example being Operations-Upgrade-9.0.0.X .pak for upgrading Aria Operations into VCF Operations. Apply it directly to the cluster, or map it in the fleet management appliance under Settings > Binary Mapping.
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Terms in this definition
- 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.
- package
Workflows, actions, policies and other VCF Operations orchestrator elements are exported and imported in bundles of this kind; any dependencies are pulled in automatically, and what is inside is signed.
- APPLY
Evaluates a table-valued expression for every row on its left, inside
FROM. Think ofOUTER APPLYas a left outer join andCROSS APPLYas an inner join. - MAP
A SQL type for storing key-value pairs. Only maps with
STRINGkeys can be turned intoVARIANTthroughto_variant_object. - Fleet management
VCF Operations area, running on its own appliance, that centrally looks after licences, lifecycle, identity, certificates, passwords, tags and drift for an entire fleet. Aria Suite Lifecycle is not upgraded into it but replaced by it.
- BINARY
A SQL type that holds raw bytes.
ai_parse_documentneeds itscontentargument in this type, so passing a file path as a string does not work.