Browser console on port 5480 for looking after the vCenter appliance itself: health, patches, backups, time, networking and access.
Also called vCenter Management Interface.
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Terms in this definition
- vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.
Related terms
- Automatic LVM snapshot
Before a patch is applied to the vCenter appliance, the patch process snapshots its logical volumes. If patching fails, this lets you resume or roll back from the VAMI.
- File-based backup
Started from the VAMI, this vCenter protection method streams inventory, configuration and any chosen historical data to a remote server. Recovery involves a newly deployed appliance receiving that data.
- Log forwarding
Passing logs along to a further destination. vCenter does this from the Syslog page in the VAMI, for a maximum of three hosts, and VCF Operations for logs can target a syslog server or a second logs instance from its own UI.
- RELP
A protocol vCenter can choose when sending its logs to a syslog server configured in the VAMI. The alternatives are TLS, TCP and UDP.
- SEAT
Stats, events, alarms and tasks: the history stored in the vCenter database. Trends for SEAT, DB log and core space appear under Monitor > Database in the VAMI.