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What is used to customize Windows based guest OS installaions? |
Microsoft’s Sysprep tool. Allows a single Windows installation to be cloned many times over, each time with a unique identity. This ensures that you have to install Windows only once, but you can reuse that Windows installation over and over again, each time using Sysprep to create a new computer name, new IP address, and new security identifier (SID).
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What is vCenter's customization specification? |
Allows you to provide all the information only once and then apply it as needed when cloning a VM. |
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What is an OVF Template and what does it stand for? |
Open Virtualization Format is a Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standard format for describing the configuration of a VM. Allows an easy way to package and deploy VM's
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What's the difference in OVF and OVA templates? |
The Folder Of Files (OVF) format puts the separate components of an OVF template— the manifest (MF) file, the structural definition (OVF) file, and the virtual hard disk (VMDK) file— as separate files in a folder.
The Single File (OVA) format combines the separate components into a single file. You might find this format easier to transport or distribute. |
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What are Content Libraries? |
A way of storing VMware templates, OVF templates, ISO/ FLP media files, or any file that you may want cataloged separate from your deployed VMs.
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What is a vApp? |
The combination of multiple VM's into a single unit. For example, a certain app may have multiple web servers, an application server, and database server. A vApp would allow you to combine all of these VM's for the application into a single unit. |
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What is VMware Converter? |
a stand-alone free product to help you take OS installations on physical hardware and migrate them— using a process called a physical-to-virtual (P2V) migration— into a virtualized environment running vSphere. Not only does VMware Converter provide P2V functionality, but it also provides virtual-to-virtual (V2V) functionality. The V2V functionality allows VMs created on other virtualization platforms to be imported into VMware vSphere.
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