VMware VC-VLM4-C - vCenter Lab Manager User Manual page 166

Lab Manager User's Guide
cluster
A server group in the virtual environment. Clusters enable a high‐availability solution.
compute resource
A compute resource is the cluster or host providing compute power to a resource pool. The compute
resource represents the sum of all CPU and memory of all hosts under it.
configuration
A group of virtual machines that Lab Manager controls as a unit. Lab Manager can replicate these
configurations on demand.
console
See Lab Manager Web console, virtual machine console.
consolidate
To combine an existing base disk and its chain of delta disks into a single base disk. Use consolidation to
move a virtual machine or configuration to a new datastore.
See also base disk, chain length, delta disk.
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datastore
Virtual representation of combinations of underlying physical storage resources in the datacenter. A
datastore is the storage location (for example, a physical disk, a RAID, or a SAN) for virtual machine files.
Lab Manager stores media files and virtual machines on VMFS and NFS datastores.
delta disk
"Differencing" disk created during the cloning process. A virtual machine created as a linked clone
consists of a base disk, plus a chain of one or more delta disks that store the differences between the cloned
virtual machine and the original virtual machine.
See also base disk, chain length, clone.
deploy
To register a virtual machine or configuration on an ESX host. This host must have the proper CPU type,
CPU numbers, and 64‐bit capability, if necessary. Lab Manager manages the selection of hosts when
deploying virtual machines and configurations.
deployment lease
The amount of time a virtual machine template or configuration is deployed before Lab Manager is
scheduled to undeploy it.
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
A communications protocol that enables dynamic addressing. The software relieves administrators of the
task of assigning an IP address to each device that connects to a network.
DNS (Domain Name System)
An Internet data query service that translates host names into IP addresses. Also called Domain Name
Server or Domain Name Service.
DRS (VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler)
See VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
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ESX
See VMware ESX.
export
To move a configuration or virtual machine to an SMB share.
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