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VMware, Inc.
Industry: Software
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VMware, Inc. provides virtualization infrastructure software solutions and related support and services for worldwide market.
The virtual machines that ACE administrators create, associate to virtual rights management (VRM) policies, and package for deployment to users. See also VRM (Virtual Rights Management), disk mode.
Industry:Software
A step in an ACE instance setup that includes package protection and the set up of the ACE instance’s runtime authentication policy. Complete the activation to make the packaged virtual machine, with its policies and other settings, into an ACE instance. See also authorization role.
Industry:Software
In GSX and Workstation, a process that handles blocking system calls for asynchronous I/O, or nonblocking I/O. AIO is a form of input and output processing that permits other processing to continue before the transmission finishes. VMware, Inc.
Industry:Software
Ability of an ESX server system to load its operating system over a storage area network (SAN). The boot image is stored on a remote storage array, rather than on a disk directly attached to the system. Diskless servers require the use of boot from SAN technology.
Industry:Software
A component that stores class definitions and populates requests for CIM operations with information returned from specific data providers.
Industry:Software
A port on a vDS that connects to a host’s service console or VMkernel or to a virtual machine’s network adapter.
Industry:Software
A dvPort group is a port group associated with a vDS. The port group specifies port configuration options for each member port. A dvPort group defines how a connection is made through the vDS to the network.
Industry:Software
list to start a virtual machine or to connect to the configuration file and make changes in the virtual machine settings.
Industry:Software
An API for controlling virtual machines.
Industry:Software
In ESX/ESXi server, any form of storage that uses TCP/IP network communication as its foundation. Both Network File System (NFS) and iSCSI storage can be used as virtual machine datastores. NFS can also be used for direct mounting of .ISO files for presentation to virtual machines as CD-ROM discs.
Industry:Software