Specifications

Basic System Administration
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Intended Audience
Theinformationpresentedinthismanualiswrittenforsystemadministratorswhoare
experiencedWindowsorLinuxsystemadministratorsandwhoarefamiliarwith
virtualmachinetechnologyanddatacenteroperations.
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VirtualCenterandESXServerdocumentationset.
Abbreviations Used in Figures
ThefiguresinthismanualusetheabbreviationslistedinTable 1.
Table 1. Abbreviations
Abbreviation Description
database VirtualCenterdatabase
datastore Storageforthemanagedhost
dsk# Storagediskforthemanagedhost
hostn VirtualCentermanagedhosts
SAN Storageareanetworktypedatastoresharedbetweenmanagedhosts
tmplt Template
user# Userwithaccesspermissions
VC VirtualCenter
VM# Virtualmachinesonamanagedhost