VCenter's VMware Endpoint Certificate Store host, also handling other authentication tasks; its log lives in /var/log/vmware/vmafdd. A certificate with non-UTF-8 characters makes its first boot fail mid-upgrade.
Also called VMware Authentication Framework Daemon.
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Terms in this definition
- vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.
- VECS
Every vCenter keeps its certificates, private keys and trusted roots here, VMCA-signed or otherwise; vecs-cli is the tool for managing it.
- Authentication
Checking an identity claim made by a person, device or app, for instance by asking for a password plus an extra factor. Authorisation only happens once this step has succeeded.
- 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.
- Certificate
Key Vault object holding an X.509 certificate, whose associated key and secret are managed alongside 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.