A distributed port group setting controlling when ports are allocated. With static binding a port is assigned as a VM connects; with ephemeral (no binding) ports are created as needed, so VMs can connect via a host managed directly even when vCenter is down.
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Terms in this definition
- Distributed port group
Configures settings like teaming, VLAN, port binding and security for VMkernel adapters and VMs that connect to it, applied identically on all hosts joined to the vSphere Distributed Switch it lives on.
- Binding
A declarative way to bring data into a function as an input or to write results out as an output. None are required: the code is always free to talk to the target service by using an SDK client from Azure.
- 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.
- CONNECT
In SQL Server, the right to open a connection to a database. Fabric's equivalent is Read permission on an item, which allows connecting to a warehouse or SQL endpoint but not querying anything in it.
- Veeam Infrastructure Appliance
A hardened, minimal Linux (JeOS) ISO for running backup proxies, repositories and hardened repositories. It connects to a backup server but does not host one.
- vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.