Chapter 9
Using vApps
In this chapter, you will learn to:
- Import Virtual Appliances
- Create Your Own vApps
- Maintain vApps
- Setting the Start Order
- Using IP Pools
- Using IP Assignment
- Modifying vApp Product Information
As vSphere has developed, the term vApp has come to mean many different things. Some refer to any virtualized workload as a virtual application, or vApp, whereas others use vApp to refer to a VM that has been exported to an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) template. With the release of vSphere 4.1, VMware extended the vApp concept to a next level. A vApp is now a virtual container similar to a resource pool. A vApp can contain one or more VMs and is managed as a single logical unit. The modern vApp can be powered on or off and ...
