The following terms are commonly used to discuss VM Manager and its
integrated components:
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| APA | | Automatic Port Aggregation. A combination of LAN ports that can be accessed
through a single interface name.
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D |
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| dedicated vswitch | | A vswitch that is dedicated to use by a certain virtual machine. This
type of vswitch cannot be shared by multiple virtual machines running at the
same time.
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H |
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| host | | The controlling operating system that allows multiple Virtual Machines
(VMs) to be booted on a single server or nPartition.
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| HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager | | The management application responsible for managing and configuring
HP Integrity Virtual Machines. Also called VM Manager.
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M |
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| managed node | | A system running under SIM.
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| managed system | | See managed node.
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N |
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| NIC | | Network Interface Card. Also called LAN card or PPA.
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S |
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| shared vswitch | | A vswitch than can be used by more than one virtual machine.
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V |
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| virtual machine | | Virtual hardware system.
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| Virtual Machine console | | The user-mode application that provides console emulation for virtual
machines. Each instance of the Virtual Machine console is one console session
for its associated virtual machine.
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| vswitch | | Virtual switch.
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W |
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| WBEM | | Web-Based Enterprise Management. A set of Web-based information services
standards developed by the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. A WBEM
provider offers access to a resource. WBEM clients send requests to providers
to get information about, and access to, the registered resources.
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