workload domain

In the Ultra Transcenders books

2V0-17.25

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

Terms in this definition

• Domain

  A way of grouping workspaces by area of the business, in support of a data mesh approach. Items take on their workspace's domain, letting you filter the OneLake catalog by it, and certain tenant settings can be passed to domain admins; domains have no effect on access permissions.

• VMware Cloud Foundation

  Broadcom's platform for private cloud. It unifies management of NSX, vSAN, vSphere, VCF Automation and VCF Operations as one fleet; VVF, by contrast, lacks automation and cloud management.

• Dedicated

  Running Azure Functions on an App Service plan, which removes the execution time limit and offers VNet integration on Basic and higher tiers.

• vCenter

  Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.

• NSX

  Software that handles networking and security across VCF, covering firewalling, load balancing, NAT, VPCs, overlay segments and Tier-0/1 gateways.

• management domain

  VCF domain built by the VCF Installer to host a VCF Instance's management components, plus fleet-wide components such as VCF Operations and VCF Automation in the first instance. Business workloads may run there too.

Related terms

• NSX Edge cluster

  Pool of Edge nodes that runs centralised gateway services, for example VPN, NAT, load balancing and north-south routing. VCF adds it to a workload domain after that domain has been built.

• SDDC Manager

  Per-instance VCF appliance that automates jobs such as workload domain deployment, lifecycle of ESX, NSX and vCenter, importing vCenter, stretching clusters, and handling passwords and certificates. VCF 9.0 positions it within VCF Operations, whose console is replacing its separate UI.