- Industry: Software
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VMware, Inc. provides virtualization infrastructure software solutions and related support and services for worldwide market.
A logical partition of processes supporting virtual machines. For example, World 0 contains vmx, mks, and aio processes for all virtual machines. Subsequent worlds each contain a single vmm implementing a single virtual machine. It is similar to a process or thread in a traditional operating system.
Industry:Software
Provides access control in the SAN topology. Zoning defines which HBAs can connect to which storage processors. You can have multiple ports to the same storage processor in different zones to reduce the number of presented paths.
Industry:Software
A global setting that provides password protection for Windows hosts. Administrative lockout restricts users from creating new virtual machines, editing virtual machine configurations, and changing network settings.
Industry:Software
When you power on a virtual machine, the system cheques the amount of CPU and whether memory resources are reserved. Based on the available unreserved resources, the system determines whether it can guarantee the Reservation for which the virtual machine is configured.
Industry:Software
An entity that monitors one or more properties of a virtual machine, such as CPU load. Alarms send notifications as directed by the configurable alarm definition.
Industry:Software
In Capacity Planner, an indicator that server performance is significantly different from the industry performance averages of like servers. Capacity Planner notes an anomaly when it detects performance that is more than three standard deviations from the industry average.
Industry:Software
In ESX Server 2.x, a disc mode in which software running in the virtual machine appears to write changes to the disk. Changes are stored in a temporary .REDO file. If a system administrator deletes the redo-log file, the virtual machine returns to the state it was in the last time it was used in persistent mode. See also disc mode.
Industry:Software
Replication of a virtual machine that is managed and executed by the storage subsystem rather than from inside the virtual machine, the vmkernel, or the service console.
Industry:Software
A set of privileges grouped for convenient identification under names such as Administrator.
Industry:Software
In hosted products, a type of network connexion between a virtual machine and the host’s physical network. With bridged networking, a virtual machine appears to be an additional computer on the same physical Ethernet network as the host. See also custom networking, host-only networking.
Industry:Software
