User`s guide

VMware Stage Manager User’s Guide
190 VMware, Inc.
DRS(VMwareDistributedResourceScheduler)
SeeVMwareDistributedResourceScheduler(DRS).
E ejectCD
ToejecttheCDaftertheInsertCDoperationinthevirtualmachineconsole.
ejectfloppy
ToejectthefloppyfileaftertheInsertFloppyoperationinthevirtualmachine
console.
enabled
Userflagtomarkanobjectasavailableforuse.
ESXServer
SeeVMwareESXServer.
export
Tomoveaconfiguration
orvirtualmachinetoanSMBshare.
externalIPaddress
AuniqueIPaddresstemporarilyassignedtoeachvirtualmachinedeployedwith
networkfencing.Throughtheseexternaladdresses,virtualmachinesbothinside
andoutsidethefencecancommunicatewitheachother.
StageManagerassignsexternalIPaddresseswhendeployingclones.Thisis

differentfromtheinternalIPaddressesthatremainstaticacrosscloningactivity.
F fencing
Anarchitecturethatisolatesor“fences”virtualmachineconfigurationswhile
allowingfullnetworkaccess.Fencingenablesyoutoworkwithliveinstancesof
identicalconfigurationsonthesamenetworksimultaneously.
forcedelete
ToforcefullydeleteavirtualmachinewhenanESXhostfailurepreventstheStage
Manageradministratorfromdeletingthe
virtualmachine.
TheoperationcleansthevirtualmachinefromtheStage Managerdatabasebutnot
fromtheVirtualCenterinventory.Youcanmanuallyremovethevirtualmachine
fromtheVirtualCenterinventory.