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VMware Converter User’s Manual
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destinationvirtualmachine
InVMwareConverter,themigratedvirtualmachineatitsfinallocation.
DHCP(DynamicHostConfigurationProtocol)
Acommunicationsprotocolthatenablesdynamicaddressing.Thesoftwarerelievesadministratorsofthe
taskofassigninganIPaddresstoeachdevicethatconnectstoanetwork.
diskmode
Apropertyofavirtual
diskthatdefinesitsexternalbehavior(howthevirtualizationlayertreatsitsdata)
butiscompletelyinvisibletotheguestoperatingsystem.
DNS(DomainNameSystem)
AnInternetdataqueryservicethattranslateshostnamesintoIPaddresses.Alsocalled“DomainName
Serveror“DomainNameService.”
E Ethernetswitch
Aphysicalswitchthatmanagesnetworktrafficbetweenmachines.Aswitchhasmultipleports,eachof
whichcanbeconnectedtoamachineortoanotherswitchonthenetwork.SeealsoVMotion.
EULA(enduserlicenseagreement)
Thesoftwarelicensethatdetailsanyrestrictionsplacedonusers.
F fullclone
Acompletecopyoftheoriginalvirtualmachine,includingallassociatedvirtualdisks.Seealsolinked
clone.
G growabledisk
Atypeofvirtualdiskinwhichthediskspaceisnotpreallocatedtoitsfullsize.Itsfilesstartoutsmallin
sizeandgrowasdataiswrittentothedisk.
guestoperatingsystem
Anoperatingsystemthatrunsinsideavirtualmachine.Seealsohostoperatingsystem.
H host
(1)Aphysicalcomputercapableofrunningvirtualmachines.Alsocalledthe“hostmachine”or“host
computer.”(2)InVMwareConverter,thephysicalcomputeronwhichtheVMwareConvertersoftwareis
installed.
hostagent
Softwarethat,wheninstalledonavirtualmachinehost,performsactionsonbehalfofaremoteclient.
host
basedlicensing
InESXServersoftware,oneoftwomodesforlicensingVMwaresoftware.Licensefilesresideonthehost
andfeatureavailabilityistiedstrictlytothehostinwhichthefileresides.Seealsoserverbasedlicensing.
hostedproducts
VMwareproducts(includingWorkstation,VMwarePlayer,VMwareServer,VMwareACE,
andLab
Manager)thatrunasapplicationsonphysicalmachineswithoperatingsystemssuchasMicrosoft
WindowsorLinux.Bycomparison,ESXServerisa“baremetal”product,wh ichprovidesathinsoftware
layer(thehypervisor)thatenablesittorundirectlyonthephysicalmachine.
hostonlynetworking
Inhostedproducts,
atypeofnetworkconnectionbetweenavirtualmachineandthehost.Withhostonly
networking,avirtualmachineisconnectedtothehostonaprivatenetwork,whichnormallyisnotvisible
outsidethehost.Multiplevirtualmachinesconfiguredwithhostonlynetworkingonthesamehostare
on
thesamenetwork.Seealsobridgednetworking,NAT(networkaddresstranslation).