A standalone instance, made up of either one VM or three in scale-out form, for monitoring and managing many clusters centrally.
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Related terms
- AD
Microsoft's directory service. Users held in it can sign in to Prism Central and Prism Element, with their permissions coming from role mappings or authorization policies.
- ADFS
Federation service from Microsoft. Prism Central accepts it as a SAML 2.0 identity provider for single sign-on.
- Alert policy
Defines the conditions under which Prism Central produces an alert. It comes in three kinds (system-defined, user-defined or custom, and external), while Prism Element is limited to adjusting the default ones.
- Anomaly detection
Prism Central uses machine learning to work out what is normal for each VM, and logs an event when its performance or resource use strays beyond that baseline.
- Authorization policy
Until one of these applies, a user can do nothing. In Prism Central IAM, it gives a user or user group a built-in or custom role over a global or customised scope.
- Availability zone
A site that Nutanix Disaster Recovery treats as physically isolated, with a single Prism Central instance standing for it. Recovery points replicate from the primary site to its paired recovery sites, which may be NC2, Nutanix Cloud AZ or on-premises.
- Bandwidth throttling policy
A cap, set in Prism Central, on the bandwidth consumed by creating images from a URL or moving them between clusters. Nutanix Move throttles separately, with a setting for each source provider.
- Behavioural learning tools
Efficiency reports, smart alerts, anomaly detection and right sizing for VMs, all driven by machine learning in Prism Central that examines how resources are consumed.