This guide introduces Novell® ZENworks® Virtual Machine Management, including its basic administration environment, which is accessed through an Eclipse* rich client console. This guide provides an introductory overview of Virtual Machine Management, explains how to install, monitor, and manage VMs and coordinate their management with applications running on Orchestrator. For additional information about ZENworks and other Novell products, visit www.novell.com.
The guide is organized as follows:
This book is for data center administrators, job managers, and job developers. It assumes that users of the product have the following background:
General understanding of network operating environments and systems architecture.
Knowledge of basic UNIX* shell commands, the Windows* command prompt, and text editors.
General ZENworks Orchestrator Server knowledge
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