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VM files and live state

VM files and live state

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VM files and live state

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- [Instructor] One more thing about our virtual machines that's important to understand at this point. A virtual machine is made up of two major pieces. We have the virtual machine files and the live state of the virtual machine. So let's talk about the live state first. Every virtual machine that's running is going to have contents in memory. Right, this is all the programs that are running and the current state of the virtual machine. The virtual machine's going to be using time slots on processors. It's going to have a virtual nic that's connected to a port on a virtual switch. And it's going to send SCSI commands that are intercepted by the ESXI host and passed along to a storage adapter. So this is what's happening in my virtual machine right now at this given moment, the virtual hardware that we're providing it. And the contents of memory at any given moment. That's what's running on the ESXI host. But the virtual machine is also made up of a set of files. Some of these files…

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