Alerts notify administrators and monitoring systems of critical configuration changes and threshold limits in the virtual environment. The notification can take the form of either an email or an SNMP trap.
A file identifier in UNIX. Each node is identified by a unique number and contains user and group ownership information, access settings, file type, size, links and modification information.
Instance/Cloud Instance
Instance
A on-demand virtual machine based upon a predefined image and uses a scalable set of hardware resources such as CPU, memory, networking interfaces.
A virtual machine that is connected to a host and exists in the VMDB (Virtual Machine Data Base). Also, a template that is connected to a provider and exists in the VMDB. Note that templates cannot be connected to a host.
A template is a copy of a preconfigured virtual machine, designed to capture installed software and software configurations, as well as the hardware configuration, of the original virtual machine.
Virtual machines utilize the hardware infrastructure of a physical host, or a set of physical hosts, to provide a scalable and on-demand method of system provisioning.
VMDB (Virtual Management Database)
VMDB
Database used to store information about your resources, users, and anything else required to manage your virtual enterprise.
Infrastructure can be organized into zones to configure failover and to isolate traffic. Zones can be created based on your environment. Zones can be based on geographic location, network location, or function. When first started, new servers are put into the default zone.