- Industry: Software
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VMware, Inc. provides virtualization infrastructure software solutions and related support and services for worldwide market.
In ESX server 2.x, a disk 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 disk to its previous state; or keep the changes, so that further changes from future sessions can be added to the log. See also disk mode.
Industry:Software
A virtual disk 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
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 disk 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
