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Glossary

vlance

One of the virtual network adapters available in a virtual machine running in ESX. The vlance adapter

emulates an AMD PCnet32 device. Note that in some cases NIC morphing can automatically convert a

vlance device into a VMXNET device. See also NIC Morphing, E1000, and VMXNET.

VMFS (Virtual Machine File System)

A high performance cluster file system.

VMI (Virtual Machine Interface)

A paravirtualization interface supported by ESX. See also Paravirtualization.

VMotion

A feature allowing running virtual machines to be moved from one physical server to another with no

downtime.

VMware Infrastructure Client (VI Client)

A graphical user interface used to manage ESX hosts or VirtualCenter servers. Renamed vSphere Client

in vSphere 4.0.

VMware Tools

A suite of utilities and drivers that enhances the performance and functionality of your guest operating

system. Key features of VMware Tools include some or all of the following, depending on your guest

operating system: an SVGA driver, a mouse driver, the VMware Tools control panel, and support for such

features as shared folders, shrinking virtual disks, time synchronization with the host, VMware Tools

scripts, and connecting and disconnecting devices while the virtual machine is running.

VMXNET

One of the virtual network adapters available in a virtual machine running in ESX. The VMXNET adapter

is a high-performance paravirtualized device with drivers (available in VMware Tools) for many guest

operating systems. See also Enhanced VMXNET, VMXNET3, E1000, vlance, and NIC Morphing.

VMXNET3 (VMXNET Generation 3)

The latest in the VMXNET family of paravirtualized network drivers. Requires virtual hardware version

vSphere Client.

A graphical user interface used to manage ESX hosts or VirtualCenter servers. Previously called the

VMware Infrastructure Client (VI Client).

W Wake-on-LAN

A feature allowing a computer system to be powered on or brought out of suspend by sending a

command over Ethernet.

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