Successor to VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle, which cannot be upgraded to 9.0. This appliance underpins VCF Operations fleet management, looking after lifecycle and binaries for VCF Operations, VCF Automation, VCF Identity Broker and add-ons.
Also called formerly VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle, Aria Suite Lifecycle.
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Terms in this definition
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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 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.
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