Chapter 4. Deploying and Administering Virtual Machine and vApps

This chapter covers the following subjects:

Creating and Deploying Virtual Machines

Creating and Deploying vApps

Managing Virtual Machine Clones and Templates

Administering Virtual Machines and vApps

None of the virtual networking or the datastores would be necessary if it weren’t for the fact that you want to create and deploy virtual machines (VMs). In other words, everything else that I discuss in the book, besides the VMs themselves, is just a “life support system” for the VMs. In this section, I will discuss creating, deploying, managing, and administering VMs. In addition, I will define a relatively new concept that combines multiple VMs, referred to as a vApp, and ...

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