Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Overview
VMware VMotion technology moves an entire running VM instantaneously from one server to another. The VMware vCenter Server exposes a management interface that can be used by DFM to:
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Connect to vCenter Server using the VIM protocol, to discover its topology (Datacenters, Clusters, ESX Servers, Resource Pools, Virtual Machines, and so on).
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Connect to ESX Server and discover its full topology. This discovery is limited to the server itself.
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Listen for events that occur in the inventory structure. Currently two types of events are tracked and reported:
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VMotion events, when the VM migrates from server to server.
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VM powering-on event, when the VM is turned on.
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VMware provides an SDK describing this interface, which includes documentation, API reference, libraries, and examples. VMware Infrastructure SDK can be downloaded from http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/.
