Adds features to vCenter and its client. The VCF Operations orchestrator plug-in of the same name, once set up, lets workflows call the vCenter API.
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Terms in this definition
- Document Intelligence add-on capabilities
Extra Document Intelligence options switched on with the features query parameter: barcodes, formulas, keyValuePairs, languages, ocrHighResolution, queryFields and styleFont.
- vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.
- VCF Operations orchestrator
Engine for running workflows, previously Aria Automation Orchestrator; VCF Automation relies on it to extend its capabilities and to connect to vSphere and further systems.
- Once flow
A flow that executes a single time and repeats only if the pipeline is fully refreshed. It's a common choice for a first full load ahead of a change feed, and that refresh becomes dangerous once the original files no longer exist.
- Set
Secret permission in Key Vault for writing secrets; some older material refers to it as Create.
- Lakeflow Jobs
The orchestration product in Databricks, previously called Workflows. Each job contains at least one task, and the links between tasks make up a directed acyclic graph.
- API
Short for application programming interface: a contract that client code calls programmatically, for example a web API secured with tokens or the Files, Images or Responses APIs.
Related terms
- HSM
Two terms share these letters in VCF. As a hardware security module it is tamper-resistant hardware holding keys, which vSphere Native Key Provider cannot use and only a third-party key server behind a standard key provider can offer; as a hardware support manager it is the OEM's vCenter plug-in from whose depot vSphere Lifecycle Manager draws firmware and driver add-ons for a cluster image.
- VCF Operations orchestrator plug-in for vSphere Web Client
Makes orchestrator workflows available inside the vSphere Client so people can start them, schedule them and respond to their prompts. The separate vCenter plug-in, by contrast, is how workflows take action on vCenter.