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group

Software; Virtualization

A set of users who are assigned a common set of privileges. A group can contain other groups. See also service console.

growable disk

Software; Virtualization

A type of virtual disk in which the disk space is not preallocated to its full size. The disk files begin small and increase as data is written to the disk. See also preallocated ...

guest operating system

Software; Virtualization

An operating system that runs inside a virtual machine. See also host operating system.

guest user

Software; Virtualization

An unauthenticated user who can log in to a system with a temporary user name and password. A guest user has restricted access to files and folders and has a set of restricted ...

handle

Software; Virtualization

A temporary token used by a Web service client to invoke Web service operations that require a reference to an object. Like a file handle, an object handle is a temporary handle ...

vDS (distributed virtual switch)

Software; Virtualization

An abstract representation of multiple hosts defining the same vSwitch (same name, same network policy) and port group. These representations explain the concept of a virtual ...