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Virtualization

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

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Virtualization

virtual machine settings editor

Software; Virtualization

A point-and-click control panel used to view and modify the settings of a virtual machine setting.

virtual memory

Software; Virtualization

An extension of a system’s physical memory, enabled by the declaration of a page file. See also page file.

virtual network

Software; Virtualization

A network connecting virtual machines that does not depend on physical hardware connections. For example, you can create a virtual network between a virtual machine and a host that has no external ...

virtual switch

Software; Virtualization

A virtualized network switch used by ESX/ESXi to manage traffic between virtual machines, the service console (ESX only), and the physical network adapters on the ESX/ESXi host.

virtual local area network (VLAN)

Software; Virtualization

A software-managed logical segmentation of a physical LAN. Network traffic within each segment is isolated from traffic in all other segments.

acronym for virtual machine (VM)

Software; Virtualization

An acronym for virtual machine.

virtual machine file system (VMFS)

Software; Virtualization

A file system that is optimized for storing virtual machines. One VMFS partition is supported for each SCSI storage device or LUN.

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