VM components

A VM behaves in exactly the same way a physical computer does, but it's actually a software computer that runs an OS and applications supported by the host's provided resources. A VM supports all the functionalities and presents the same devices as a physical machine, but it's easier to manage and more secure.

Typically, a VM can be configured to run on ESXi hosts, datacenters, clusters, or resource pools and includes three main core components:

• Virtual and hardware resources
• OS
• VMware Tools

Virtual hardware

When you create a VM, the ESXi host presents the hardware as a specific set of resources to the VM. The hardware type provided by the configuration wizard has been selected by VMware to ensure...