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VMware Server User’s Guide
328 VMware, Inc.
customnetworking
Anytypeofnetworkconnectionbetweenvirtualmachinesandthehostthatdoes
notusethedefaultbridged,hostonly,ornetworkaddresstranslation(NAT)
configurations.Forinstance,differentvirtualmachinescanbeconnectedtothe
hostbyseparatenetworksorconnectedtoeachotherandnottothe
host.Any
networktopologyispossible.Seealsobridgednetworking,hostonlynetworking,
NAT(networkaddresstranslation).
D–E datastore
Virtualrepresentationsofcombinationsofunderlyingphysicalstorageresources.
Adatastoreisthestoragelocationforvirtualmachinefiles.Thestoragelocation
canbethelocalfilesystem,aCIFSstore(Windowsonly),oranNFSmountedfile
system(Linuxonly).
diskmode
Apropertyofavirtualdiskthatdefines
itsexternalbehavior(howthe
virtualizationlayertreatsitsdata)butiscompletelyinvisibletotheguestoperating
system.Availablemodesvarybyproductandincludepersistentmode(changesto
thediskarealwayspreservedacrosssessions)andnonpersistentmode(changes
areneverpreserved).
F folder
Amanagedentityusedtogroupothermanagedentities.Foldertypesare
determinedbythekindsofchildentitiestheycontain.Seealsochild.
FQDN(fullyqualifieddomainname)
Thenameofahost,includingboththehostnameandthedomainname.For
example,theFQDNofahostnamed
esx1inthedomainvmware.comis
esx1.vmware.com.
fullscreenmode
Adisplaymodeinwhichthevirtualmachine’sdisplayfillstheentirescreen.
G group
Asetofusersassignedacommonsetofprivileges.Agroupmaycontainother
groups.
growabledisk
Atypeofvirtualdiskinwhichthediskspaceisnotpreallocatedtoitsfullsize.Its
filesstartoutsmallinsizeandgrowasdataiswrittentothedisk.
Seealso
preallocateddisk.