Fleet-level VCF components, among them VCF Identity Broker, VCF Automation, VCF Operations and the VCF Operations fleet management, logs and networks components. A single set can look after multiple VCF Instances; for upgrades the fleet management appliance goes first, followed by VCF Operations.
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Terms in this definition
- 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.
- VCF Identity Broker
Identity service introduced with VCF 9.0 that signs in users of fleet components by linking VCF Single Sign-On with the company's identity provider. It runs either embedded within vCenter or as a cluster of three appliance nodes.
- VCF Automation
Self-service platform in VCF for provisioning VM, Kubernetes and AI workloads. Providers manage regions and tenants in one portal, while tenants handle projects and consumption in theirs.
- 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 Operations fleet management
Replaces VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. Delivered through the fleet management appliance, this VCF Operations capability looks after deployment and lifecycle of fleet-level components along with certificates, passwords, identity and licences, all in one place.
- Set
Secret permission in Key Vault for writing secrets; some older material refers to it as Create.
- Fleet management
VCF Operations area, running on its own appliance, that centrally looks after licences, lifecycle, identity, certificates, passwords, tags and drift for an entire fleet. Aria Suite Lifecycle is not upgraded into it but replaced by it.
- FIRST
A DAX function available only inside visual calculations. It fetches the value at the start of one axis of the visual's matrix, which makes it handy for comparing each point with the first; its opposite is LAST.
Related terms
- IPv4
IP addressing with 32-bit addresses. Statically assigned IPv4 addresses and host names, ideally from RFC 1918 space, are needed for all VCF management components, and every infrastructure network (management, vMotion, storage and so on) must run on it.
- VCF core components
ESX, vCenter, NSX Manager and SDDC Manager: the instance-level parts of VCF, lifecycle-managed per domain and VCF Instance. Fleet-level parts are the VCF management components.