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The following table provides definitions for some of the terms that are used in this document.
Term | Definition |
ALB | NSX Advanced Load Balancer |
ITOM | IT Operational Management |
LCM | Life Cycle Management |
MDM | Meta Data Manager |
SDC | Storage Data Client |
SDS | Storage Data Server |
SDT | Storage Data Target (TCP) |
VM | Virtual Machine |
K8S | Kubernetes |
LCM | Lifecycle management including Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 operations |
TKGS | Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service aka vSphere with Tanzu |
Namespaces | vSphere Namespace, introduced in vSphere 7, creates multitenancy. vSphere Namespace is a vSphere concept to provide multitenancy, and separation of resources belongs to one particular tenant. When a Namespace is created on a Supervisor Cluster, that namespace is created in the cluster itself (kubectl get namespaces). |
TKG Cluster | Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Cluster, an upstream K8S cluster created for DevOps workloads using the TKG Service |
TKC | The synonym for TKG Cluster, stands for Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster. |
Guest Cluster | The synonym for TKGS Cluster, a term to indicate that the cluster is outside of vSphere primitives, and life cycle management is independent of vSphere LCM. |
VDS | vSphere Distributed Switch (defined and managed by vCenter) |
VSI | Dell Virtual Storage Integrator |