VLM

In the Ultra Transcenders books

VBR-13

Each book explains VLM in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• log

  Text written by a component to record something that happened. VCF Operations for logs takes these in, and after integration with VCF Operations they can be searched from its Analyze page and Log Analysis widget.

• Job

  A sequence of steps executed together on one agent or runner, or on the server for agentless work. While running, each occupies one of your parallel jobs.

• Metadata

  Describes data rather than being the data itself, for instance how a file is laid out or what rows each chunk contains, so tools can read things efficiently.

• PostgreSQL

  Short for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, a Citus-based distributed relational service that scales writes out horizontally. New projects are steered away from it towards Azure Database for PostgreSQL elastic clusters.

• Microsoft SQL Server

  Microsoft's database engine. It can hold Veeam's configuration database in place of PostgreSQL, and is protected with a dedicated plug-in, Veeam Explorer, and application-aware processing plus log backup.

• NEXT

  Restricted to visual calculations, this DAX function reads the value one step further along an axis of the visual matrix; writing OFFSET with 1 gives the same result.

• VLB

  An incremental log backup file kept alongside the image backup files, holding shipped transaction logs from Microsoft SQL Server, archived logs from Oracle or WAL files from PostgreSQL.

Related terms

• VOM

  Oracle archived log data sits in this file type, kept in the repository together with VLB and VLM files.

• VPM

  PostgreSQL WAL data sits in this file type, kept in the repository together with VLB and VLM files.

• VSM

  SQL Server transaction log data sits in this file type, kept in the repository together with VLB and VLM files.