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Glossary
template
Amasterimageofavirtualmachine.Thistypicallyincludesaspecifiedoperatingsystemanda
configurationthatprovidesvirtualcounterpartstohardwarecomponents.Optionally,atemplatecan
includeaninstalledguestoperatingsystemandasetofapplications.Settingavirtualmachineasa
templateprotectsanylinkedclones
orsnapshotsthatdependonthetemplatefrombeingdisabled
inadvertently.TemplatesareusedbyVirtualCentertocreatenewvirtualmachines.Seealsolinkedclone.
V virtualappliance
Asoftwaresolutionthatiscomposedofoneormorevirtualmachines,ispackagedasaunitbyan
appliancevendor,andisdeployed,managed,andmaintainedasaunit.
virtualdisk
Afileorsetoffilesthatappearsasaphysicaldiskdrivetoaguestoperatingsystem.
Thesefilescanbeon
thehostmachineoronaremotefilesystem.Seealsogrowabledisk,physicaldisk.
virtualhardware
Thedevicesthatmakeupavirtualmachine.Thevirtualhardwareincludesthevirtualdisk,removable
devicessuchastheDVDROM/CDROMandfloppydrives,andthevirtual
Ethernetadapter.
virtualmachine
Avirtualizedx86PCenvironmentinwhichaguestoperatingsystemandassociatedapplicationsoftware
canrun.Multiplevirtualmachinescanoperateonthesamehostsystemconcurrently.
virtualmachineconfiguration
Thespecificationofwhichvirtualdevices,suchas disksandmemory,arepresentinavirtualmachine
and
howtheyaremappedtohostfilesanddevices.InVMwareConverter,VMwarevirtualmachineswhose
diskshavebeenpopulatedbyrestoringfromabackuporbysomeotherdirectmeansofcopyingundergo
configurationtoenablethemtobootinVMwareproducts.Seealsovirtualmachine.
virtualmachine
configurationfile
A.vmxfilecontainingavirtualmachineconfiguration,whichiscreatedwhenyoucreatethevirtual
machine.Itisusedtoidentifyandrunaspecificvirtualmachine.
virtualmemory
Anextensionofasystem’sphysicalmemory,enabledbythedeclarationofapagefile.
VirtualSMP
Thetechnologythatenables
avirtualmachinetodosymmetricmultiprocessing.VirtualSMPenablesyou
toassigntwovirtualprocessorstoavirtualmachineonanyhostmachinethathasatleasttwological
processors.
VMotion
AfeaturethatenablesyoutomoverunningvirtualmachinesfromoneESXServersystemtoanother
withoutinterruptingservice.
Itrequireslicensingonboththesourceandtargethosts.VMotionis
activatedbytheVirtualCenteragent,andtheVirtualCenterservercentrallycoordinatesallVMotion
activities.SeealsomigrationwithVMotion.
VMwareInfrastructure
Asoftwaresuite,includingESXServerandVirtualCenter,thatvirtualizesservers,storage,and
networkingandenablesmultipleunmodified
operatingsystemsandtheirapplicationstorun
independentlyinvirtualmachineswhilesharingphysicalresources.Thesuitedeliverscomprehensive
virtualization,management,resourceoptimization,applicationavailability,andoperationalautomation
capabilities.SeealsoEthernetswitch.
VMwareTools
Asuiteofutilitiesanddriversthatenhancestheperformanceandfunctionalityofyourguestoperating
system.KeyfeaturesofVMwareToolsincludesomeorallofthefollowing,dependingonyourguest
operatingsystem:anSVGAdriver,amousedriver,theVMwareToolscontrolpanel,andsupportforsuch