vCenter's built-in HTML5 browser interface and the main tool for administering vCenter, its hosts and virtual machines.
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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.
- Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).
- 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
- Cluster quickstart
Found in the vSphere Client at Configure > Configuration > Quickstart, this guided workflow brings ESX 7.0+ hosts into a new cluster and gives them a uniform setup for networking, cluster services and vSAN.
- Context action
Lets you start a VCF Operations orchestrator workflow directly from the vSphere Client menu of an inventory object, because the workflow has been bound to that object type.
- Custom attributes
Unlike tags, these have no categories: they are plain string key/value pairs, defined in the vSphere Client and set on individual VMs, clusters, hosts or networks, with vCenter rather than the object holding the value.
- Default project
Lets VPCs be used in NSX without setting up any tenant projects. From the vSphere Client, vCenter admins can make VPCs, subnets and external IPs inside it.
- ESX Shell
The ESX host's local command shell, previously called the ESXi Shell. It is off by default, can be turned on from the DCUI, vSphere Client or VMware Host Client, and has its own availability and idle timeout settings.