Top tier of VCF consumption and management: a set of one or more fleets that have nothing in common within VCF, linked only through outside things such as racks, networking kit or data centres.
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Terms in this definition
- Archive
Offline access tier for blobs, cheapest to store yet dearest to access. Reading a blob means rehydrating it first, which can take as long as 15 hours.
- 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.
- Consumption
Serverless, event-driven Azure Functions hosting plan charged per execution; runs are capped at 10 minutes and VNet integration isn't available.
- Set
Secret permission in Key Vault for writing secrets; some older material refers to it as Create.