Multi-tenant cloud software from VMware, layered over vSphere. Once its servers are connected, Veeam ONE watches organisations, provider and organisation VDCs, vApps and VMs, as well as the vSphere beneath.
Also called vCloud Director, vCloud Director.
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Terms in this definition
- OVER
Gives a T-SQL window function its window: PARTITION BY, ORDER BY and, if wanted, a ROWS or RANGE frame. Rankings and running totals can then be worked out while every row is kept.
- vSphere
VMware's platform for virtualisation, made up of vCenter and ESX hosts, supplying compute for VCF clusters.
- Once flow
A flow that executes a single time and repeats only if the pipeline is fully refreshed. It's a common choice for a first full load ahead of a change feed, and that refresh becomes dangerous once the original files no longer exist.
- Veeam ONE
A standalone Veeam product that monitors and reports on Veeam Backup & Replication and virtual environments in real time and documents them for the business. It can also measure how quickly VMs change, which helps with sizing.
- Provider
The organisation that shares data in OpenSharing. Recipients also see a provider as a Unity Catalog securable, from which shares can be mounted as catalogs.
- Virtual machines
Infrastructure-as-a-service compute giving complete control of the operating system, making it a fit for lift-and-shift moves and for software relying on OS-level pieces like COM.
Related terms
- Chargeback
Replacing the pricing and billing once done in VMware Cloud Director, this VCF Operations feature in VCF 9.0 bills VCF Automation tenants using rate cards the provider sets per organization or region quota. Usage data arrives through the NSX, vCenter and VCF Automation management packs.
- VDC
Virtual data centre: capacity carved out in VMware Cloud Director. Provider VDCs offer vSphere resources up to the cloud as a whole, and organisation VDCs give a slice of those resources to one tenant. Both kinds appear in Veeam ONE.