User`s guide

VMware Stage Manager User’s Guide
188 VMware, Inc.
B basedisk
Theoriginalvirtualharddiskfromwhichavirtualmachineisderived.Virtual
machinescreatesbylinkedclonesinStageManagerarecomprisedofabasedisk
andchainofdeltadisksthatstorethechangesmadetotheoriginal.This
“referentialprovisioning”processaddressesthepotentialdiskconsumption
difficultiesthatcomewithvirtualmachineproliferation.
Whenyoumakealinkedcloneofavirtualmachine,boththecloneandtheoriginal
usethesamebasedisk.Whenyoumakeadeepcloneofavirtualmachine,Stage
Managerconsolidatestheoriginalbasediskanditsdeltadiskstocreate
anewbase
disk.Inthiscase,theoriginaldisksremainunchanged.
Seealsochainlength,clone,deltadisk.
C chainlength
Thenumberofdeltadisksassociatedwithavirtualmachine.Thechainlength
indicateshowdistributedavirtualmachineimageisacrossthedirectoriesofa
datastore.Seealsobasedisk,consolidate,deltadisk.
clone
Seelinkedclone,fullclone.
cluster
Aservergroupinthevirtualenvironment.
compute
resource
Acomputeresourceistheclusterorhostprovidingcomputepowertoaresource
pool.ThecomputeresourcerepresentsthesumofallCPUandmemoryofallhosts
underit.
configuration
AgroupofvirtualmachinesthatStageManagercontrolsasaunit.
StageManagerconfigurationsarecomprisedofthecomponents
oftheIT
applicationsthatStageManagermanages.Eachconfigurationresidesinastageof
aserviceandcontainsoneormorevirtualmachines.Stage Managercanreplicate
theseconfigurationsondemand.
console
SeeStageManagerWebconsole,virtualmachineconsole.