- Industry: Software
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VMware, Inc. provides virtualization infrastructure software solutions and related support and services for worldwide market.
In Capacity Planner Dashboard, a server that does not meet minimum CPU speed requirements, as defined in the Dashboard consolidation scenarios by the Information Warehouse Administrator, company Administrator, or company Power User. See also instance customization.
Industry:Software
A software solution that is composed of one or more virtual machines. A virtual appliance is packaged as a unit by an appliance vendor and is deployed, managed, and maintained as a unit. Converting virtual appliances allows you to add preconfigured virtual machines to your vCenter Server, ESX/ESXi server, Workstation, or Player inventory.
Industry:Software
A file or set of files that appears as a physical disc drive to a guest operating system. These files can be on the host machine or on a remote file system. See also growable disk, physical disk, preallocated disk.
Industry:Software
The devices that make up a virtual machine. The virtual hardware includes the virtual disk, removable devices such as the DVD-ROM/CD-ROM and floppy drives, and the virtual Ethernet adapter. See also virtual machine settings editor.
Industry:Software
A virtual machine is a software computer that, like a physical computer, runs an operating system and applications. Multiple virtual machines can operate on the same host system concurrently.
Industry:Software
A role in which the user can perform all the virtual machine management functions.
Industry:Software
A set of virtual machines that can be operated on collectively. Currently called a VM Group or VM Folder in vCenter Server.
Industry:Software
An infrastructure that provides communication between a virtual machine and the host operating system and between two or more virtual machines on the same host.
Industry:Software
The specification of which virtual devices, such as discs and memory, are present in a virtual machine and how they are mapped to host files and devices. In vCenter Converter, VMware virtual machines whose discs have been populated by restoring from a backup or by some other direct means of copying undergo configuration to enable them to boot in VMware products. See also virtual machine.
Industry:Software
