Connects VCF Operations to a vCenter as an adapter instance, bringing in its objects, events and metrics; with vCenter 9 it also takes care of licensing and plug-ins.
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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.
- vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.
- 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.
Related terms
- Action credentials
If you want vCenter actions launched from VCF Operations to use a different identity from the data-collection account, you can add these optional credentials to the vCenter account; otherwise the collector's identity is used.