Reference Guide

vConverter v4.1 Chapter 1 Introduction 15
Term or
Acronym
Definition
RCC Remote Cold Cloning
RDM Raw Device Mapping—A file that resides on a datastore (vmfs
volume). Using RDM, all source volumes to be converted are placed
in a single device. RDM file has a .vmdk extension.
RPC/DCOM Remote Procedure Call/Distributed Component Object Model
SAN Storage Area Network
SSCD Source Server Capture Driver
SFTP Secure File Transfer Protocol
SMP Symmetrical Multi-Processing
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Source
Machine
The machine to be captured and converted to the target.
Source Server Refers to the physical system with the host OS that is to be converted
to a VM. The source server is dynamically converted into a guest OS.
SSH Secure Shell Access; a network protocol used to exchange data
between CPUs across a secure channel.
su switch user
Target
Machine
The machine to which the source’s conversion is written directly.
Target Server Refers to disk space on a physical server, where the host OS from the
source server is sent and stored.
Target Server
Agent for ESX
Server
An application that manages incoming requests such as reading and
writing data and creating and resizing disk images; It is run on the
COS of an ESX Server by xinetd daemon.
Target Server
Agent for
Windows
Runs on a target system and increases performance in writing disk
image. Especially effective for capturing images in flat format, where
initial allocation of disk space can take significant time when done
over the network. Also the agent allows for basic data compression to
reduce traffic usage.
Target Server
Agent for
XenServer or
ESX Server
Runs either in “ring 0” level in XenServer or in VA deployed on ESX
Server/XenServer. The only way to store images on VMware ESX 3i
servers is to use VA and TSA. All TSAs use a simplified version of
SFTP protocol to transfer the data. The simplification removes the
underlying SSH connection to speed data transfer, and adds its own
authentication to prevent unauthorized access.
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol