VMware VC-VLM4-C - vCenter Lab Manager User Manual page 170

Lab Manager User's Guide
SMB (Server Message Block)
A network protocol for exchanging files between computers. You can use SMB with Windows and Linux
operating systems.
SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing)
The technology that enables you to assign two virtual processors to a virtual machine on any host machine
that has at least two logical processors.
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
A protocol that facilitates email transmissions between servers.
SMTP Server
A system running email server software that accepts email from within your enterprise. Lab Manager
must connect to an SMTP server to send email alerts.
snapshot
A reproduction of the virtual machine or configuration as it was when you took the snapshot, including
the state of the data on all the virtual disks and power state (on, off, or suspended).
Lab Manager stores the snapshot with the configuration or virtual machine image. Only one snapshot is
active at a time. The most recent snapshot replaces the previous one.
You can revert the configuration or virtual machine to a snapshot. If you undeploy a virtual machine and
deploy it, the snapshot remains.
storage lease
The amount of time an unused virtual machine template or configuration exists on a datastore before Lab
Manager deletes it or marks it for deletion. This affects only unpublished virtual machine templates.
Sysprep
See Microsoft Sysprep.
Suspend
A state in which settings are preserved and actions are no longer performed. To turn off a virtual machine
while preserving the current state of a running virtual machine. See also resume.
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TCP/IP
The set of protocols that is the language of the Internet, designed to enable communication between
networks regardless of the computing technologies that they use. TCP connects hosts and provides a
reliable exchange of data streams with guaranteed delivery. IP specifies the format of packets and handles
addressing.
template
See virtual machine template.
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undeploy
To unregister a virtual machine or configuration from an ESX host. This operation makes the resources
associated with that virtual machine available for use by the rest of the virtual environment.
unprepare
To remove an ESX host from use in the Lab Manager environment. This operation uninstalls the Lab
Manager agent.
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vCenter
See VMware vCenter (vCenter), virtual machine disk (.vmdk).
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