User`s guide

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Glossary
consolidate
Tocombineanexistingbasediskanditschainofdeltadisksintoasinglebasedisk.
Useconsolidationtomoveavirtualmachineorconfigurationtoanewdatastore.
Seealsobasedisk,chainlength,deltadisk.
D datastore
Virtualrepresentationofcombinationsofunderlyingphysicalstorageresourcesin
thedatacenter.Adatastoreisthestoragelocation(forexample,aphysicaldisk,a
RAID,oraSAN)forvirtualmachinefiles.
StageManagerusesVMFSdatastoresforvirtualmachinesandNFSdatastoresfor
mediafilesandvirtualmachines.
deltadisk
“Differencing”
diskcreatedduringthecloningprocess.Avirtualmachinecreated
asalinkedcloneconsistsofabasedisk,plusachainofoneormoredeltadisksthat
storethedifferencesbetweentheclonedvirtualmachineandtheoriginalvirtual
machine.Seealsobasedisk,chainlength,clone.
demote
Tomoveaconfigurationintoanearlierstageoftheservicelifecycle.
deploy
ToregisteravirtualmachineorconfigurationonanESXServerhost.Thishost
musthavetheproperCPUtype,CPUnumbers,and64‐bitcapabilityifnecessary.
StageManagermanagestheselectionofhostswhendeployingvirtual
machines
andconfigurations.
deploymentlease
TheamountoftimeatemplateorconfigurationisdeployedbeforeStageManager
isscheduledtoundeployit.
DHCP(DynamicHostConfigurationProtocol)
Acommunicationsprotocolthatenablesdynamicaddressing.Thesoftware
relievesadministratorsofthetaskofassigninganIPaddresstoeachdevicethat
connectsto
anetwork.
DNS(DomainNameSystem)
AnInternetdataqueryservicethattranslateshostnamesintoIPaddresses.Also
called“DomainNameServer”or“DomainNameService.”