Subject Alternative Name (not a storage area network): the certificate field naming everything the certificate is valid for. A clustered VCF Operations certificate needs every node's FQDN in it, plus any load balancer's, so adding nodes means reissuing the certificate first.
Also called subject alternative name.
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Terms in this definition
- SAN
Block storage carried over its own dedicated network, typically iSCSI or Fibre Channel, which gives ESX hosts LUNs to format as VMFS datastores.
- Certificate
Key Vault object holding an X.509 certificate, whose associated key and secret are managed alongside it.
- 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.
- FQDN
The full DNS name of a host, zone included, for example www.contoso.com.
- ELT
Extract, load, transform: raw data lands in the target system first and is transformed there. See ETL for the opposite order.
- FIRST
A DAX function available only inside visual calculations. It fetches the value at the start of one axis of the visual's matrix, which makes it handy for comparing each point with the first; its opposite is LAST.