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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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Virtual machine group
Software; Virtualization
An optional grouping structure and a subset of a farm. vCenter Server supports multiple virtual machine groups. Virtual machine groups contain virtual machines and other virtual machine groups.
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.
Virtual machine file system (VMFS)
Software; Virtualization
A file system that is optimised for storing virtual machines. One VMFS partition is supported for each SCSI storage device or LUN.