Extra storage attached to an existing VCF cluster, holding workloads or items like ISO images, templates and backups, as opposed to principal storage chosen while the cluster is being built. Some types, NFS 4.1 among them, are limited to this role.
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Terms in this definition
- General-purpose v1
The older storage account kind (
Storage), which lacks access tiers, Archive and premium file shares and retires on 13 October 2026. Converting to ZRS requires first upgrading to GPv2, a one-way change. - VMware Cloud Foundation
Broadcom's platform for private cloud. It unifies management of NSX, vSAN, vSphere, VCF Automation and VCF Operations as one fleet; VVF, by contrast, lacks automation and cloud management.
- LIKE
Compares strings with a pattern that can contain the % and _ wildcards. Because it only understands character patterns, searching big volumes of text this way is much slower than using full-text search.
- ISO
The International Organization for Standardization. SQL became an ISO standard in 1987, twelve months after ANSI adopted it.
- principal storage
Fixed at cluster creation and impossible to switch later: vSAN (ESA or OSA), VMFS over FC, or NFS v3. Supplemental storage, by contrast, can be added afterwards.
- NFS
Network File System, a file-sharing protocol from the Unix world, available on Azure Files, Azure NetApp Files and Blob Storage (as NFSv3).
- Role
How an actor normally or expectedly behaves, or the part a person takes in a process. A single actor may hold more than one role.