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Glossary
L–M LANsegment
Aprivatevirtualnetworkthatisavailableonlytovirtualmachineswithinthesame
team.Seealsovirtualnetwork,team.
linkedclone
Acopyoftheoriginalvirtualmachinethatmusthaveaccesstotheparentvirtual
machine’svirtualdisks.Thelinkedclonestoreschangestothevirtualdisksina
separatese
toffiles.See
alsofullclone.
N–O nonpersistentmode
Adiskmodeinwhichalldiskwritesissuedbysoftwarerunninginsideavirtual
machineappeartobewrittentotheindependentdiskbutareinfactdiscarded
afterthevirtualmachineispoweredoff.Asaresult,avirtualdiskorphysicaldisk
inindependent‐nonpersistentmodeisno
tmodifiedbyac
tivityinthevirtual
machine.Seealsodiskmode,persistentmode.
P parent
Thesourcevirtualmachinefromwhichyoutakeasnapshotormakeaclone.Afull
clonehasnocontinuedlinktoitsparent,butalinkedcloneandasnapshotmust
haveaccesstotheparent’svirtualdiskfiles.Ifyoudeletetheparentvirtual
machine,anylinkedcloneorsnaps
hotbecomespermanentlydi
sabled.Toprevent
deletion,youcanmaketheparentatemplatevirtualmachine.Seealsofullclone,
linkedclone,snapshot.
persistentmode
Adiskmodeinwhichalldiskwritesissuedbysoftwarerunninginsideavirtual
machineareimmediatelyandpermanentlywrittentoavirtualdiskthathasbee
n
configur
edasanindependentdisk.Asaresult,avirtualdiskorphysicaldiskin
independent‐persistentmodebehaveslikeaconventionaldiskdriveonaphysical
computer.Seealsodiskmode,nonpersistentmode.
physicaldisk
Aharddiskinavirtualmachinethatismappedtoaphysicaldi
skdriv
eorpartition
onthehostmachine.Aphysicaldiskisalsoreferredtoasarawdisk.Avirtual
machine’sdiskcanbestoredasafileonthehostfilesystemoronalocalharddisk.
Whenavirtualmachineisconfiguredtouseaphysicaldi
sk,Workstationdirectly
accessesthelocaldiskorpartitionasaphysicaldevice(notasafileonafile
system).Seealsovirtualdisk.
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