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VMware, Inc. provides virtualization infrastructure software solutions and related support and services for worldwide market.
To restore the status of the active virtual machine to its immediate parent snapshot. See also Go to snapshot, Snapshot Manager.
Industry:Software
A defined set of privileges that can be assigned to users and groups to control access to VMware vSphere objects.
Industry:Software
In vCenter Server, an activity that is configured to occur at designated times. In VMware Converter, scheduled tasks consist of migrations and configurations of virtual machines.
Industry:Software
(1) A system capable of managing and running virtual machines. (2) A process capable of accepting and running instructions from another process.
Industry:Software
In VMware Infrastructure 3, a mode of licencing VMware software in which all licence keys are administered by a licence server, which manages a central licence pool. Feature entitlement is checked out and returned on demand. See also host-based licensing.
Industry:Software
The command-line interface for an ESX server system that enables administrators to configure the system. The service console is installed as the first component and used to bootstrap the ESX server installation and configuration. The service console also boots the system and initiates starting the virtualization layer and resource manager. You can open the service console directly on an ESX server system. If the ESX server system’s configuration allows Telnet or SSH connections, you can also connect remotely to the service console.
Industry:Software
In the VMware vSphere SDK, the managed entity that provides access to all other managed entities. Clients must access the service instance to begin a session.
Industry:Software
Amount of used storage minus the not-shared storage. Applies to virtual machines that can share storage with any other virtual machine, including linked clones.
Industry:Software
To reclaim unused space in a virtual disk. If a disc has empty space, shrinking reduces the amount of space the virtual disc occupies on the host drive. Shrinking virtual discs is a way to update an older virtual disc to the format supported by the current version of vCenter Server. You cannot shrink preallocated virtual discs or physical disks.
Industry:Software
A unit of CPU and memory that can accommodate the CPU and memory reservation requirements of the largest virtual machine in your cluster. Spare capacity for failover is maintained on hosts in the cluster in slot sizes, so that any virtual machine in the cluster can fit in the slot size and be able to be failed over. Represents potential computing capacity on a node. A virtual machine can run in an empty slot in the event of failover.
Industry:Software
