Branch offices and similar small outlying sites. In vSphere estates they commonly run on two-node vSAN clusters or single hosts, and depot overrides in vSphere Lifecycle Manager allow them to update from a depot kept on site.
Also called remote office and branch office.
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Terms in this definition
- vSphere
VMware's platform for virtualisation, made up of vCenter and ESX hosts, supplying compute for VCF clusters.
- vSAN
VMware's software-defined storage, which combines local devices across a cluster's ESX hosts into one shared datastore. Available as OSA or ESA, VCF can use it as principal storage.
- Depot
Binary source for VCF upgrades and installs. Choices: Broadcom's online service, via a download token and optionally a proxy; a local offline web server; or files pulled by the VCF Download Tool. Just one is active.
- vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Service in vCenter for installing, updating and upgrading ESX hosts and clusters based on a desired image. From 9.0, host upgrades cannot be done with baselines.
- CRUD
Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.
- LSDOU
The sequence in which Group Policy is processed: the local policy first, followed by site, domain and organisational unit policies. The nearest, last-processed setting takes effect unless Enforced or Block Inheritance alters that.