Novell ZENworks Orchestrator 1.2 Virtual Machine Management Guide

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:

Audience

This book is for data center administrators, job managers, and job developers. It assumes that users of the product have the following background:

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