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ARM

Microsoft Azure Resource Manager. Technology to administer assets using Resource Group.

AWS

Amazon Web Services. Public cloud platform that offers global compute, storage, database, application and other cloud services.

AWS Region

In AWS, a geographic area to place resources. Each region has multiple, isolated locations known as Availability Zones.

AWS VPC

AWS Virtual Private Cloud. A private cloud that exists in the public cloud of Amazon. It is isolated from other Virtual Networks in the AWS cloud.

Cisco ACI

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure. Comprehensive SDN architecture, policy-based automation solution for increased scalability through a distributed enforcement system with greater network visibility. Trademark of Cisco.

Cisco APIC

Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller. Automation and management point for the Cisco ACI fabric. It centralizes access to fabric information, optimizes the application lifecycle for scale and performance, and supports flexible application provisioning across physical and virtual resources.

CloudGuard Controller

Provisions SDDC services as Virtual Data Centers that provide virtualized computer networking, storage, and security.

CloudGuard Gateway

Check Point Virtual Security Gateway that protects dynamic virtual environments with policy enforcement. CloudGuard Gateway inspects traffic between Virtual Machines to enforce security, without changing the Virtual Network topology.

Contract

In Cisco ACI SDN, a policy between Endpoint Groups (EPGs), with one EPG providing and one EPG consuming, to virtualize a physical network cable connection.

Data Center

Virtual centralized repository, or a group of physical networked hosts, Virtual Machines, and datastores. They are collected in a group for secured remote storage, management, and distribution of data.

ESXi

A VMware physical hypervisor server that hosts one or more Virtual Machines and other virtual objects. All references to ESX are also relevant for ESXi unless specifically noted otherwise. Trademark of VMware, Inc.

GCP

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of products and services that includes hosting, cloud computing, database services and more.

GCP Project

GCP Projects form the basis for creating, enabling, and using all Cloud Platform services. This includes managing APIs, enabling billing, adding and removing collaborators, and managing permissions for Cloud Platform resources.

GCP Regions and Zones

A region is a specific geographical location where you can run resources. Each region has one or more zones.

GCP VPC Network

A Virtual Private Cloud is a global private isolated Virtual Network partition that provides managed networking functionality for your GCP resources.

Microsoft Azure

Collection of integrated cloud services that developers and IT professionals use to build, deploy, and manage applications through a global network of data centers managed by Microsoft.

NSX Manager

Basic network and security functionality for virtual computer environments. A VMware product family for SDN of Virtual Machines on the cloud (previously known as vShield). Trademark of VMware, Inc.

OpenStack

An open source cloud-computing infrastructure for service providers and enterprises. It includes modules for administration, storage, networking and Virtual Machine deployment and control.

Private Network (L3)

Separates routing instances, and can be used as an administrator separation.

Resource Group for Microsoft Azure

Object used in ARM to monitor, control access, provision and manage billing for collections of assets that are required to run an application, or used by a client or company department.

SDDC

Software-Defined Data Center. Data Center infrastructure components that can be provisioned, operated, and managed through an API for full automation.

SDN

Software-Defined Network. Virtualization of topology, traffic, and functionality.

Security Group for AWS

Acts as a virtual firewall that controls the traffic for one or more instances in AWS. Security Groups are associated with network interfaces.

Security Group for NSX

A collection of virtual objects that defines the Distributed Firewall protection policy in VMware NSX.

Service Graph

Ordered set of function nodes between terminals, which identifies network service functions required by an application. Required for CloudGuard integration.

Service Manager

Component that manages the communication between Check Point products, CloudGuard Controller and the VMware NSX, through the VMware REST API.

Tenant for ACI

Group of users, to isolate access to resources in Cisco ACI. Also known as project.

vCenter Server

Centralized management tool for VMware vSphere. It manages many ESX servers and Virtual Machines from different ESX servers, from one console application.

Virtual Network

Environment of logically connected Virtual Machines on an ESX host.

vNIC

Virtual Network Interface Card. Software-based abstraction of a physical interface that supplies network connectivity for Virtual Machines.

vSphere

VMware cloud computing virtualization operating system. The vSphere Web Client is the GUI to manage Virtual Machines and their objects.

VSX

Virtual System Extension. Check Point virtual networking solution, hosted on a computer or cluster with virtual abstractions of Check Point Security Gateways and other network devices. These Virtual Devices provide the same functionality as their physical counterparts.

VSX Virtual System

VSX Virtual Device with the functionality of a physical Security Gateway with all supported Software Blades.