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VMware, Inc. provides virtualization infrastructure software solutions and related support and services for worldwide market.
When you power on a virtual machine, a process in which a corresponding swap file is created and placed in the same location as the virtual machine configuration file (.vmx file). The virtual machine can power on only when the page (swap) file is available. ESX/ESXi hosts use swapping to forcibly reclaim memory from a virtual machine when no vmmemctl driver is available.
Industry:Software
A group of virtual machines configured to operate as one object. You can power on, power off, and suspend a team with one command. You can configure a team to communicate independently of any other virtual or real network by setting up a LAN segment. See also LAN segment, NIC teaming, virtual network.
Industry:Software
A master image of a virtual machine. The template typically includes a specified operating system and a configuration that provides virtual counterparts to hardware components. Optionally, a template can include an installed guest operating system and a set of applications. Templates are used by vCenter Server to create new virtual machines. See also linked clone, parent, snapshot.
Industry:Software
A list of virtual machines that provides a means to import and store virtual machines as templates. You can deploy the templates at a later time to create new virtual machines.
Industry:Software
In VirtualCenter server 1.x, a directory that stores copies of the original virtual machine's virtual disks. Copies of the original virtual machine’s virtual discs are placed in the directory you specify as the template upload directory. This directory is used when you create templates from virtual machines that are stored locally on the Virtual centre Server 1.x rather than on an ESX Server or GSX Server system.
Industry:Software
Amount of provisioned storage minus used storage. Uncommitted storage is a general term that can refer to unused physical capacity and unused logical capacity. Uncommitted storage includes unused logical capacity.
Industry:Software
In ESX server 2.x, a disc mode in which all write operations that are issued by software running inside the virtual machines appear to be written to the disk, but, in fact, are stored in a temporary file (.REDO) for the duration of the session. When the virtual machine is powered off, the user has these choices: permanently apply all changes to the disk; discard the changes, and restore the disc to its previous state; or keep the changes, so that further changes from future sessions can be added to the log. See also disc mode.
Industry:Software
A virtual disc partition that VMware Tools cannot prepare for shrinking. Unsupported partitions include read-only drive partitions, partitions on remote devices, and partitions on removable devices. See also shrink.
Industry:Software
The total elapsed time since the host or virtual machine was last restarted.
Industry:Software
Refers to used storage at the virtual machine or datastore level. (This term was formerly called committed storage.) At the virtual machine level, used storage refers to the space used by disks, swap, logs, cores, and so on.
Industry:Software
