- المجال: Software
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VMware, Inc. provides virtualization infrastructure software solutions and related support and services for worldwide market.
A disc mode in which all disc writes that are issued by software running inside a virtual machine are immediately and permanently written to a virtual disc that is configured as an independent disk. As a result, a virtual disc or physical disc in independent-persistent mode behaves like a conventional disc drive on a physical computer. See also disc mode, nonpersistent mode.
Industry:Software
In hosted products, a hard disc in a virtual machine that is mapped to a physical disc drive or partition on the host machine. A virtual machine’s disc can be stored as a file on the host file system or on a local hard disk. When a virtual machine is configured to use a physical disk, vCenter Server directly accesses the local disc or partition as a raw device (not as a file on a file system). See also virtual disk.
Industry:Software
A network of physical machines (plus cabling, switches, routers, and so on) that are connected so that they can send data to and receive data from each other. See also virtual network.
Industry:Software
The process of recovering a usable copy of a defined data set from a specified time in the past.
Industry:Software
A file that contains an exact image of a raw disk. VMware plain discs can also concatenate more than one raw disc into a single plain disk.
Industry:Software
A set of system enforced rules that automatically run or inhibit actions upon entities such as virtual machines, processes, and users.
Industry:Software
A construct for configuring virtual network options such as bandwidth limitations and VLAN tagging policies for each member port. Virtual networks that are connected to the same port group share network policy configuration. See also virtual network, VLAN (virtual local area network).
Industry:Software
The process of disconnecting power from the computer and then adding power again. A power cycle generally has the effect of restarting the system.
Industry:Software
A type of virtual disc in which all disc space for the virtual machine is allocated at the time the disc is created.
Industry:Software
Authorization to perform a specific action or set of actions on a managed object or group of managed objects.
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