SAP Landscape Management 3.0, Enterprise Edition

Virtualization Elements

This section provides an overview of virtualization elements.

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Element Type

Description

Virtualization Manager

Virtualization Manager

A function that manages a set of virtual host providers or virtual hosts.

Virtual Host Provider Cluster

Virtual Host Provider Cluster

A group of virtual host providers.

Virtual Host Provider

Virtual Host Provider

A hypervisor, a virtualization container, or an OS zone that provides a set of virtual hosts.

OS Resource Pool

OS Resource Pool

A set of operating system resources, such as a set of CPUs or a specified amount of CPU cycles or RAM.

Virtual Host

Virtual Host

A virtualized server or virtual machine usually used together with an installed OS or an OS zone within an OS.

Virtual Host Template

Virtual Host Template

A passive entity that can be used to instantiate virtual hosts.

Virtual Disk

Virtual Disk

An entity that abstracts storage space for virtual hosts.

Datastore

Datastore

A storage container for virtual host files.