Using vApps to organize virtualized applications
vApps can be used to group individual virtual machines with interdependencies into a single application. A common use case for this would be a multitier web application that requires a web server frontend, an application server, and a supporting database server. The application can then be managed as a single inventory object.
How to do it…
The following steps can to be performed to use vApps to organize virtual machine workloads:
- Create a new vApp by launching the New vApp wizard, as shown in the following screenshot:
- The method to create the vApp (either creating a new vApp or cloning an existing vApp), ...
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