Supportability and Serviceability: run ./sos in /opt/vmware/sddc-support on SDDC Manager, or on the VCF Installer prior to completed deployment. It verifies health across a VCF Instance and gathers component log bundles, though debugging is outside its remit.
Also called Supportability and Serviceability utility.
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Terms in this definition
- SDDC Manager
Per-instance VCF appliance that automates jobs such as workload domain deployment, lifecycle of ESX, NSX and vCenter, importing vCenter, stretching clusters, and handling passwords and certificates. VCF 9.0 positions it within VCF Operations, whose console is replacing its separate UI.
- VCF Installer
Successor to Cloud Builder: either converges an existing vSphere environment into VCF or deploys from scratch a new VCF Instance or fleet, with its management domain and core components.
- Model deployment
Inside a resource, each deployment is a named copy of a Foundry model with its own TPM quota and deployment type. Requests identify the model by this deployment name.
- VCF Instance
Combination of a management domain with any number of workload domains, each instance having its own NSX, SDDC Manager and vCenters. A VCF fleet is made up of one or more of them.
- Azure Machine Learning component
Reusable building block for a pipeline, versioned and self-contained, much like a function: it declares a name, inputs and outputs, and bundles the command, code and environment it runs.
- log
Text written by a component to record something that happened. VCF Operations for logs takes these in, and after integration with VCF Operations they can be searched from its Analyze page and Log Analysis widget.