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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 monitor (VMM)

Software; Virtualization

Software that is responsible for virtualizing the CPUs. One VMM runs in kernel space for each running virtual machine.

virtual rights management (VRM)

Software; Virtualization

Centralized management of security policies and access rights applied to VMware ACE running on an end-user PC.

world

Software; Virtualization

A logical partition of processes supporting virtual machines. For example, World 0 contains vmx, mks, and aio processes for all virtual machines. Subsequent worlds each contain a single vmm ...

zoning

Software; Virtualization

Provides access control in the SAN topology. Zoning defines which HBAs can connect to which storage processors. You can have multiple ports to the same storage processor in different zones to reduce ...

administrative lockout

Software; Virtualization

A global setting that provides password protection for Windows hosts. Administrative lockout restricts users from creating new virtual machines, editing virtual machine configurations, and changing ...

admission control

Software; Virtualization

When you power on a virtual machine, the system checks the amount of CPU and whether memory resources are reserved. Based on the available unreserved resources, the system determines whether it can ...

alarm

Software; Virtualization

An entity that monitors one or more properties of a virtual machine, such as CPU load. Alarms send notifications as directed by the configurable alarm definition.

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