Content that the VCF Automation provider makes available read-only to every tenant organisation in chosen regions; underneath, vCenter publisher and subscriber libraries handle replication.
Also called shared content library.
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Terms in this definition
- VCF Automation
Self-service platform in VCF for provisioning VM, Kubernetes and AI workloads. Providers manage regions and tenants in one portal, while tenants handle projects and consumption in theirs.
- Provider
The organisation that shares data in OpenSharing. Recipients also see a provider as a Unity Catalog securable, from which shares can be mounted as catalogs.
- Tenant
A trusted, dedicated Microsoft Entra ID instance that stores the users, groups and app registrations of one organisation. A subscription trusts only a single tenant, although a tenant can be trusted by several subscriptions.
- vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.