Utility Server
A component of Oracle VM Agent. An application that handles I/O intensive operations for virtual machines, server pools and servers, for example, copying, moving and renaming files.
There can be more than one Utility Server in a server pool. A physical server can perform as the Server Pool Master, Utility Server and Virtual Machine Server simultaneously.
vif
A virtual network interface for bridging network interfaces between domUs and dom0. When a domU is started it is assigned a number. This number is used to bridge the network interface from ethn to vifn.0.
Virtual disk
A file or set of files, usually on the host file system although it may also be a remote file system, that appears as a physical disk drive to the guest operating system.
Virtual Machine (VM)
A guest operating system and the associated application software that runs within Oracle VM Server. May be paravirtualized or hardware virtualized machines. Multiple virtual machines can run on the same Oracle VM Server.
Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
See Hypervisor.
Virtual Machine Server
A component of Oracle VM Agent. An application which runs Oracle VM Server virtual machines. It can start and stop virtual machines, and collect performance data for the host and guest operating systems. Enables communication between the Server Pool Master, Utility Server and Virtual Machine Servers.
There can be more than one Virtual Machine Server in a server pool. A physical server can perform as the Server Pool Master, Utility Server and Virtual Machine Server simultaneously.
Virtual Machine Template
A template of a virtual machine. Contains basic configuration information such as the number of CPUs, memory size, hard disk size, and network interface card (NIC). Create virtual machines based on a virtual machine template using Oracle VM Manager.
VMM
See Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).
Xen™
The Xen hypervisor is a small, lightweight, software virtual machine monitor, for
