Virtualization

Virtualization

Of or relating to many techniques, methods, or approaches in order to make a virtual version of something.

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managed object reference

Software; Virtualization

A data object created to uniquely identify a managed object.

A disk mode in which all disk writes that are issued by software running inside a virtual machine appear to be written to the independent disk. In fact, they are discarded after the virtual machine ...

not-shared storage

Software; Virtualization

Amount of storage that is used only by a virtual machine and is not shared with other virtual machines. (This terms was formerly called unshared storage.) Also, the amount of guaranteed storage that ...

nvram (nonvolatile RAM)

Software; Virtualization

The file name used for storing BIOS settings belonging to a virtual machine.

headless

Software; Virtualization

Describes a program that runs in the background without any interface connected to it. A running virtual machine that has no console connections is running headless.

heartbeat

Software; Virtualization

A signal emitted at regular intervals by software to demonstrate that it is still active. The signal emitted by a Level 2 Ethernet transceiver at the end of every packet to show that the ...

host

Software; Virtualization

A computer that uses virtualization software to run virtual machines. Also called the host machine or host computer. The physical computer on which the virtualization (or other) software is ...