Lightweight Supervisor option for vSphere, quicker and cheaper to deploy because there is just one VM for the control plane, with one network interface, VM Service as its sole service, no load balancer, and full features available to add afterwards. Foundation Load Balancer in its single-NIC, one-arm layout is supported only with this option.
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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.
- Control plane
Management layer used to create, configure and remove resources, as distinct from the data plane where they are used. Azure Resource Manager fills this role for Azure, and in AKS Azure operates the Kubernetes control plane on your behalf.
- VM Service
Runs on the Supervisor and gives DevOps teams declarative virtual machines through kubectl, each defined by a class, an image and a storage class. It is also where VKS clusters get their control-plane and worker-node machines.
- ELT
Extract, load, transform: raw data lands in the target system first and is transformed there. See ETL for the opposite order.
- Document Intelligence add-on capabilities
Extra Document Intelligence options switched on with the features query parameter: barcodes, formulas, keyValuePairs, languages, ocrHighResolution, queryFields and styleFont.
- Architecture Definition Document
A key deliverable bringing together the main architecture artifacts across the four domains for every relevant state: baseline, transition and target. It sets out, in qualitative terms, what the architect intends.
- Foundation Load Balancer
Basic L4 balancer bundled with vCenter, serving a vSphere Supervisor and its workloads. Only VDS-networked Supervisors can use it; NSX-networked ones rely on Avi or NSX load balancing.