A VCF Operations adapter that maps the services running inside VMs and how services on separate VMs depend on one another, helping show what would be affected if a VM is moved or powered off.
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Terms in this definition
- 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.
- MAPS
Short for Microsoft Active Protection Service. It gives Microsoft Defender Antivirus cloud verdicts on suspect files in seconds, and features like file indicators stop working if it is turned off or blocked.
- 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.
Related terms
- CoreDNS
AKS's default cluster DNS, running as pods in kube-system, that resolves internal names and enables service discovery; its service IP can only be reached within the cluster.