When cloning or deploying from a template, giving the new VM's OS its own name, network and licence details so it does not collide with others. VCF Operations HCX can apply it in Bulk Migration too.
Also called guest operating system customization.
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Terms in this definition
- Template
A golden image for deploying VMs that cannot itself be started or edited; to change one, turn it back into a VM, update it and convert again, or clone it.
- Licence
What entitles one particular user to the services a subscription offers. Each product licence is made up of several service plans (one per app or service), and before giving it to someone an admin has to record that user's usage location.
- VCF Operations HCX
Add-on licensed for moving workloads inside and between VCF private clouds and linking those environments, offering bulk or live migration plus network extension so IP addresses can stay the same.
- APPLY
Evaluates a table-valued expression for every row on its left, inside
FROM. Think ofOUTER APPLYas a left outer join andCROSS APPLYas an inner join. - Bulk migration
Not a zero-downtime option: with this VCF Operations HCX method, a live VM is copied through host-based replication and then, at an optionally scheduled switchover, the original is shut down, final changes are synchronised and the replica started, costing roughly a reboot's worth of outage.