Action run from VCF Operations against a VCF domain when SDDC Manager's records and vCenter disagree, bringing the two back into line. It is unrelated to detecting configuration drift.
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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.
- VCF domain
A single vCenter together with the storage, switching, NSX Manager and clusters it controls. Every VCF Instance has one for management, plus optional extra ones for workloads.
- 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.
- vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.
- Configuration drift
Mismatch, flagged by VCF Operations, between how vCenter or cluster settings actually look and the desired state stored in a template. Checks can run on a schedule or on request, from the Configuration Drifts page in Fleet Management.
Related terms
- inventory drift
Happens when people edit vCenter or NSX Manager directly, so SDDC Manager's picture of the environment stops matching vCenter's. Running Sync Inventory for the domain in VCF Operations clears the block it puts on some VCF workflows.
- Trigger Inventory Sync
Under Fleet Management > Lifecycle, an action for a management component (VCF Operations, VCF Operations for logs, VCF Identity Broker and so on) that updates the fleet's stored details of it. Try it prior to upgrades, following restores, or if logs go missing. Domain-level Sync Inventory is a different thing.