Diagnostics in VCF Operations that keeps watch over VCF capabilities and components and spots frequent problems, for instance expiring certificates, NTP or DNS. It needs both a VCF licence and an environment deployed by the installer.
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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.
- OVER
Gives a T-SQL window function its window: PARTITION BY, ORDER BY and, if wanted, a ROWS or RANGE frame. Rankings and running totals can then be worked out while every row is kept.
- 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.
- NTP
The Network Time Protocol, on UDP port 123, which the Windows Time service relies on. Domain members take time from the domain hierarchy, which leads up to the PDC emulator in the forest root, and that server should sync with an outside source.
- DNS
The system that turns names into addresses. In Azure, private endpoints depend on private DNS zones, which are queried through 168.63.129.16.
- Licence
What entitles one particular user to the services a subscription offers. Each product licence is made up of several service plans (one per app or service), and before giving it to someone an admin has to record that user's usage location.
- Azure Machine Learning environment
Versioned asset that pairs a Docker image with a pip or conda specification, so every job or deployment using it gets identical dependencies. You point to it by name plus a version number, or by name with @latest.
Related terms
- Certificate Alerts
Within VCF Operations, the screen that gathers alerts about certificates on VCF components, such as ones about to lapse. You can reach it from the Certificates card on VCF Health.