User`s guide

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Glossary
revert
Toreturnthevirtualmachinetoanearlierstatecapturedinasnapshot.
revertpoint
Thestateofavirtualmachineascapturedbyasnapshotataspecificpointintime.
Youcanrestorethestatusofanactivevirtualmachinetoitsrevertpoint.
S SAN(storageareanetwork)
Alarge‐capacitynetworkstoragedevicethatcanbesharedamongmultiple
VMwareESXServerhosts.Sharedstorage(forexample,SANorNAS)isrequired
forVMotion.
SecurityIdentifier(SID)
AuniquenameinaMicrosoftWindowsenvironmentusedtoidentifyanobject.
SeeMicrosoftWindowsdocumentation.
service
AnIT
deliverable(forexample,anemailserviceforthelargerorganization).A
serviceisenabledbyoneormoresystemsworkingtogetherinproduction.Stage
Managerorganizesallsystemsinvolvedinaservicetogether,andseparatesthem
intostages.
Seealsolifecycle,stage.
serviceadministrator
Anindividualresponsibleforthedeliveryof
aparticularservicetothelarger
organization.Theserviceadministratorcanworkwithconfigurationsinallstages
oftheparticularservice,butcannotaccessservicesoutsidehisadministration.
serviceuser
Adeveloperoranotheruserwhohasaccesstoalimitedsetofstagesinaparticular
service,butdoesnot
havepermissiontoaltertheproductioninfrastructure.
shutdown
Toshutdowntheoperatingsystemfromwithintheguest.
SID
SeeSecurityIdentifier(SID).
SIDgen
AtoolpackagedwithStage ManagerthatchangestheSIDforvirtualmachines.