A copy of a VM at a moment in time, created from the VM dashboard in Prism Element. Recovery points in Prism Central are similar in part but not the same thing.
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Terms in this definition
- Dashboard
Page in VCF Operations built from widgets that display object metrics, properties, alerts and relationships. Predefined and custom dashboards exist, and either kind can be shared.
- Prism Central
A standalone instance, made up of either one VM or three in scale-out form, for monitoring and managing many clusters centrally.
Related terms
- RDM
Lets a VM use a physical LUN directly, through a mapping file stored on VMFS. Physical compatibility mode passes SCSI commands straight to the device, at the cost of VM snapshot support.
- Recovery point
Prism Element says VM snapshot; Prism Central uses this term for the point-in-time image a protection policy captures from a protected VM or volume group and sends to the recovery AZ.