What is NVRAM? · Ultra Transcenders glossary

Non-volatile memory that keeps firmware settings when power is removed. For a VMware VM, these settings live in a .nvram file in the VM's home folder, one of the files encrypted when a vTPM is added.

In the Ultra Transcenders books

2V0-16.25 VBR-13

Each book explains NVRAM in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

vTPM
A virtualised Trusted Platform Module within a VM. On confidential VMs, the OS disk keys are bound to it by confidential disk encryption.

See NVRAM in the full glossary