Original equipment manufacturer: a server vendor like Dell or HPE, supplying custom ESX images and add-ons that go into vLCM images.
Also called original equipment manufacturer.
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains OEM in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- LIKE
Compares strings with a pattern that can contain the % and _ wildcards. Because it only understands character patterns, searching big volumes of text this way is much slower than using full-text search.
- ESX
VMware's bare-metal hypervisor, installed on each host in a VCF fleet. Up to version 9.0 it was known as ESXi.
- vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Service in vCenter for installing, updating and upgrading ESX hosts and clusters based on a desired image. From 9.0, host upgrades cannot be done with baselines.
Related terms
- Technician flow
Autopilot pre-provisioning begins here. Pressing the Windows key five times at OOBE lets IT, an OEM or a reseller install device-targeted content, and Reseal then passes the PC on for the user stage.