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| automatic virtual machine activation | attivazione automatica della macchina virtuale (Activation of a guest operating system or application based on properties of a host system or parent partition, including but not limited to the license state of the host) |
| differencing virtual hard disk | disco rigido virtuale differenze (" A virtual hard disk that stores the changes or "differences" to an associated parent virtual hard disk for the purpose of keeping the parent intact. The differencing disk is a separate .vhd file that is associated with the .vhd file of the parent disk. Changes continue to accumulate in the differencing disk until it is merged to the parent disk.") |
| Document Virtual Folder | cartella virtuale Documenti (A feature that allows the user to group files by any criteria and display them in one place) |
| dynamically expanding virtual hard disk | disco rigido virtuale a espansione dinamica (A virtual hard disk that grows in size each time it is modified. This type of virtual hard disk starts as a 3 KB .vhd file and can grow as large as the maximum size specified when the file was created. The only way to reduce the file size is to zero out the deleted data and then compact the virtual hard disk) |
| Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard | Modifica guidata disco rigido virtuale (A wizard that is used by advanced users to perform specific operations on their existing virtual hard disks such as compacting their virtual hard disk, merging it, converting it to another type or expanding its size) |
| expired virtual machine | macchina virtuale scaduta (A virtual machine that can no longer be managed by the self-service user who owns it because the virtual machine's expiration date has passed) |
| external virtual network | rete virtuale esterna (A virtual network configured to use a physical network adapter. External virtual networks are used to connect virtual machines to external networks) |
| fixed-size virtual hard disk | disco rigido virtuale a dimensione fissa (A virtual hard disk with a fixed size that is determined and for which all space is allocated when the disk is created. The size of the disk does not change when data is added or deleted) |
| internal virtual network | rete virtuale interna (A virtual network that is configured to use no network adapter. Internal virtual networks are used to connect virtual machines running on the same instance of Virtual Server. All network traffic is confined to the computer running Virtual Server) |
| linked virtual hard disk | disco rigido virtuale collegato (A virtual hard disk that points to and uses an entire physical disk for the purpose of converting a data disk to a virtual hard disk. You cannot turn on a virtual machine if a linked disk is attached to the virtual machine) |
| Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java | Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (A Microsoft program that interprets and runs java applets and applications within Microsoft Windows) |
| Music Virtual Folder | cartella virtuale Musica (A feature that allows the user to group music files by any criteria and display them in one place. This is similar to making a playlist) |
| New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard | Creazione guidata disco rigido virtuale (A wizard that is used by advanced users to create custom virtual hard disks for virtual machines. The purpose of the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard is to gather the basic information from the user necessary to create a new virtual hard disk) |
| persistent virtual machine | macchina virtuale persistente (A virtual machine that will retain the data indefinitely, even after the reboot) |
| Personal Virtual Assistant | Assistente virtuale personale (A service that implements control of in-conference services for one PSTN user. It listens for request key commands from the user's PSTN device and executes them to control the phone functionality. For example, PVA implements 6 (mute) from the PSTN user) |
| personal virtual desktop | desktop personale virtuale (A virtual machine that is assigned to a specific user account in Active Directory Domain Services and made available to the user by using RemoteApp and Desktop Connection) |
| Personal Virtual Desktop service | servizio Desktop virtuale personale (A service that allows users to connect to their own, personally assigned virtual desktops) |
| physical-to-virtual machine conversion | conversione da macchina fisica a virtuale (" The process by which a functioning physical computer is "converted" to an identical, or nearly identical, virtual machine.") |
| Picture Virtual Folder | cartella virtuale Immagini (A feature that allows the user to group image files by any criteria and display them in one place) |
| primary virtual machine | macchina virtuale primaria (A virtual machine hosted on the primary server and replicated to the machines on the Replica server) |
| relative virtual address An offset from the address of a module that is loaded in memory | indirizzo RVA (Relative Virtual Address) |
| RemoteFX-enabled virtual desktop | desktop virtuale abilitato per RemoteFX (A virtual desktop on which RemoteFX can be run) |
| Replica virtual machine | macchina virtuale di replica (A virtual machine running on the Replica server that receives changes that are detected on the corresponding primary virtual machine) |
| Search Virtual Folder | Ricerca in cartelle virtuali (A feature that allows the user to group search files by any criteria and display them in one place) |
| stored virtual machine | macchina virtuale archiviata (An inactive virtual machine that has been saved to the Virtual Machine Manager library. The virtual machine's virtual hard disks (.vhd files) and virtual machine configuration file (.vmc file) are stored on a library share) |
| swap virtual IP | IP virtuale di scambio (To swap the staging environment with the production environment of a cloud service) |
| virtual account | account virtuale (A Local Service account that does not require password management. A virtual account is separate from the Local Service, Local System, and Network Service accounts. It uses the computer's account and credentials when it needs network access in a domain environment) |
| virtual address | indirizzo virtuale (In a virtual memory system, the address the application uses to reference memory. The kernel and the memory management unit (MMU) translate this address into a physical address before the memory is actually read or written) |
| virtual application | applicazione virtuale (An application packaged by the Sequencer to run in a self-contained, virtual environment. The virtual environment contains the information necessary to run the application on the client without installing the application locally) |
| virtual channel | canale virtuale (In Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), the path taken by data sent from one sender to one receiver) |
| virtual circuit | circuito virtuale (A connection between communicating computers that provides the computers with what appears to be a direct link but can actually involve routing data over a defined but longer path) |
| virtual classroom | classe virtuale (An online meeting for teaching and collaboration pertaining to a particular lesson) |
| virtual COM | COM virtuale (The subsystem that manages COM objects created by application processes running in a virtual environment and prevents conflict with the same objects created outside the virtual environment) |
| virtual container | contenitore virtuale (A container that allows any LDAP-compliant directory to be accessed through Active Directory) |
| virtual desktop | desktop virtuale (A desktop enhancement tool that provides access to the desktop when it is covered by open windows or that expands the size of the working desktop) |
| virtual desktop pool | pool di desktop virtuali (A group of one or more identically configured virtual machines. Users can connect to any virtual machine in the pool by using RemoteApp and Desktop Connection. Because the virtual machines are identically configured, users will receive the same virtual desktop regardless of which virtual machine they connect to. Only one user can use a given virtual machine at a time, but the user is not assigned to a particular virtual machine) |
| virtual desktop template | modello di desktop virtuale (A virtual machine that is configured as a template in a virtual desktop collection and is used to create new virtual desktops in that collection) |
| virtual device | dispositivo virtuale (A device that can be referenced but that does not physically exist. Virtual-memory addressing, for example, uses magnetic disk storage to simulate memory larger than that physically available) |
| virtual DHCP server | server DHCP virtuale (An emulation of a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server. A virtual network can be configured to provide a virtual DHCP server, which offers dynamic configuration of IP addresses and related information to DHCP-enabled virtual machines) |
| virtual directory | directory virtuale (A name used to access the contents of any Exchange store using a Web browser. The virtual directory name is used to open a mailbox as well as browse the folders of a public store. This name is also used in URLs using the Microsoft Internet Publishing Provider (MSDAIPP), which includes both hyperlinks in Web pages as well as Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects client-side code) |
| virtual disk | disco virtuale (A collection of one or more physical disks from a previously created storage pool) |
| Virtual Disk Service | Servizio dischi virtuali (A set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that provides a single interface for managing disks. VDS uses two sets of providers to manage storage devices. The built-in VDS software providers enable the management of disks and volumes at the operating system level. The VDS hardware providers enable the management of disk storage subsystems and are supplied by the hardware vendor) |
| virtual dispatch slot | slot di chiamata virtuale (An entry in an internally maintained table of functions that is used at runtime to look up virtual function calls in an object-oriented type) |
| virtual DOS machine | macchina DOS virtuale (In Windows 2000, a protected environment subsystem that emulates MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows within Windows 2000. A virtual DOS machine (VDM) is created whenever a user starts an MS-DOS program in Windows 2000) |
| virtual environment | ambiente virtuale (An environment composed of virtual machines) |
| Virtual Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel virtuale (A Hyper-V technology that provides the guest operating system of a virtual machine with direct access to Fibre Channel-based storage by exposing Fibre Channel ports to the guest through a virtual Fibre Channel adapter) |
| virtual file | file virtuale (A file name within the virtual environment that is mapped to an alternate target location. A virtual file appears alongside other files in the containing directory, regardless of whether that directory is virtual or local) |
| virtual file system | file system virtuale (The subsystem that intercepts and redirects file system requests from application processes running in a virtual environment. These requests are processed based on the virtual files and directories defined in the application package and created or modified through interaction with a virtual application) |
| virtual floppy disk | disco floppy virtuale (A file-based version of a physical floppy disk. A virtual floppy disk is stored as a file with a .vfd file name extension) |
| virtual folder | cartella virtuale (A list of files that match specific search or filter information. You create a virtual folder by specifying the types of files you want to find and saving that search information. Whenever you open a virtual folder it will search your computer again to find all files that match what you're looking for) |
| virtual hard disk | disco rigido virtuale (The storage medium for a virtual machine. It can reside on any storage topology that the host operating system can access, including external devices, storage area networks, and network-attached storage. The file format is .vhd) |
| virtual IP | IP virtuale (An IP address that is not connected to a specific computer or network interface card. Service deployments are assigned a VIP for receiving network traffic which is redirected to a physical device in the Windows Azure fabric) |
| virtual IP address | indirizzo IP virtuale (An IP address that is shared among the hosts of a Network Load Balancing cluster. A Network Load Balancing cluster might also use multiple virtual IP addresses, for example, in a cluster of multihomed Web servers) |
| virtual IP template | modello IP virtuale (A template that contains configuration settings for how a load balancer should handle a specific type of network traffic) |
| virtual key code | codice tasto virtuale (A symbolic constant name, hexadecimal value, or mouse or keyboard equivalent that provides a hardware and language-independent method of identifying keyboard keys. Each virtual key code represents a unique keyboard key and also identifies the purpose of that key. The keyboard driver must provide one or more keyboard layouts that maps keyboard scan codes to the appropriate virtual key codes) |
| virtual LAN | LAN virtuale (A logical grouping of hosts on one or more local area networks (LANs) that allows communication to occur between hosts as if they were on the same physical LAN) |
| virtual link | collegamento virtuale (A logical link between a backbone area border router and an area border router that is not connected to the backbone) |
| virtual local area network | rete locale virtuale (A logical grouping of hosts on one or more local area networks (LANs) that allows communication to occur between hosts as if they were on the same physical LAN) |
| virtual log file | file di log virtuale (Non-physical files that are derived from one physical log file by the SQL Server Database Engine) |
| virtual machine | macchina virtuale (A software implementation of a computer that emulates a complete hardware system, from processor to network card, in a self-contained, isolated software environment, enabling the simultaneous operation of otherwise incompatible operating systems) |
| virtual machine bus | bus macchina virtuale (A communications line used in Hyper-V by virtual machines and certain types of virtual devices. The virtual devices that use virtual machine bus have been optimized for use in virtual machines) |
| virtual machine configuration | configurazione macchina virtuale (The configuration of the resources assigned to a virtual machine. Examples include devices such as disks and network adapters, as well as memory and processors) |
| virtual machine configuration file | file di configurazione macchina virtuale (An XML-based file that stores the configuration of the virtual machine) |
| virtual machine deployment | distribuzione macchina virtuale (The process of moving the configuration files for a virtual machine from the Virtual Machine Manager library to a virtual machine host) |
| virtual machine expiration | scadenza macchina virtuale (A feature of Virtual Machine Manager that enables an administrator to set the number of days after the created date when a virtual machine is retired from use by self-service users. Expired virtual machines no longer appear in the Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal. However, the Virtual Machine Manager administrator still can manage the expired virtual machines. Expiration settings are applied transparently through the virtual machine templates with which self-service users create their virtual machines) |
| Virtual Machine Helper service | Servizio di assistenza macchina virtuale (A service of Virtual Server that allows you to run a virtual machine in the context of a specified user account. The virtual machine is started in that user account's context, and uses it for accessing network resources. Virtual machine scripts also run in this user account's context) |
| virtual machine host | host macchina virtuale (A physical computer that is running virtualization software, such as Hyper-V, on which virtual machines can be deployed) |
| virtual machine identity | identità macchina virtuale (The virtual machine name in combination with the computer name of the virtual machine's host, which uniquely identify a virtual machine in Virtual Machine Manager. The virtual machine name is a different property from the computer name of the guest operating system running inside the virtual machine) |
| Virtual Machine Management service | servizio Virtual Machine Management (The Hyper-V service that provides management access to virtual machines) |
| Virtual Machine Manager Administrator Console | Console di amministrazione Virtual Machine Manager (The console that provides access to the administrative functions of Virtual Machine Manager) |
| Virtual Machine Manager agent | agente Virtual Machine Manager (Software that is installed on either a virtual machine host or a library server, which enables Virtual Machine Manager to monitor and manage hosts, virtual machines, and library resources. An agent is also installed on the source machine during a physical-to-virtual machine conversion.) |
| Virtual Machine Manager database | database Virtual Machine Manager (The SQL Server database that holds all Virtual Machine Manager configuration information) |
| Virtual Machine Manager library | libreria Virtual Machine Manager (The catalog of resources that can be used to create virtual machines in Virtual Machine Manager) |
| Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal | Portale self-service Virtual Machine Manager (The Web site that users with the needed permissions and settings can use to manage their own virtual machines within a controlled environment. The Virtual Machine Manager administrator configures self-service policies to determine which users can use the self-service portal and what they can do) |
| Virtual Machine Manager server | server Virtual Machine Manager (A physical computer running Virtual Machine Manager) |
| Virtual Machine Manager service | servizio Virtual Machine Manager (The software component that runs Virtual Machine Manager) |
| Virtual Machine Manager toolbar | barra degli strumenti Virtual Machine Manager (A toolbar in the main Virtual Machine Manager Administrator Console that includes commands for hiding or displaying the Actions pane, customizing columns in the current view, opening the Job Tracking Status Window to monitor the status your own jobs, and opening Virtual Machine Manager Help) |
| virtual machine migration | migrazione macchina virtuale (The process of moving a deployed virtual machine from its current virtual machine host to another host) |
| virtual machine name | nome macchina virtuale (The name that, in combination with the computer name of the virtual machine's host, uniquely identifies a virtual machine in Virtual Machine Manager. The virtual machine name is a different property from the computer name of the guest operating system) |
| virtual machine ownership | proprietà macchina virtuale (The ownership under which an owner can operate and manage a designated virtual machine through the Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal. If a self-service policy is created for a group, the group can have either per user ownership of virtual machines or shared ownership of virtual machines) |
| virtual machine permissions | autorizzazioni macchina virtuale (Permissions that determine which actions self-service users can perform on their own virtual machines. The permissions allow users to create, delete, start, stop, pause, and resume their own virtual machines, serve as a local administrator on their virtual machines, and access their virtual machines remotely by using Virtual Machine Remote Control (VMRC)) |
| virtual machine placement | selezione host per macchina virtuale (The process of selecting the most suitable host to deploy a virtual machine on) |
| virtual machine preservation | manutenzione della macchina virtuale (The process of updating a host operating system, maximizing uptime of the virtual machine(s) that it hosts) |
| Virtual Machine Queue | Coda macchine virtuali (A feature that uses hardware packet filtering to deliver packet data from an external virtual machine network directly to virtual machines, which reduces the overhead of routing packets and copying them from the management operating system to the virtual machine) |
| virtual machine quota | quota macchina virtuale (A limit that is placed on the number of deployed virtual machines for a user or group in virtual machine self-service. Each virtual machine can add zero or more quota points toward a virtual machine quota that is set for a self-service policy. If the self-service policy is associated with a group, the quota either can be shared by all group members (under shared ownership) or can apply to each group member individually (under per user ownership). The quota does not apply to stored virtual machines) |
| Virtual Machine Remote Control | Controllo remoto macchina virtuale (A feature of Virtual Server that allows a running virtual machine to be managed remotely) |
| virtual machine role | ruolo macchina virtuale (A cloud service role that provides a customer-customizable virtual machine image) |
| virtual machine self-service | funzionalità self-service per macchine virtuali (The Virtual Machine Manager feature that enables users to manage their own virtual machines within a controlled environment) |
| virtual machine snapshot | snapshot macchina virtuale (A file-based snapshot of the state, disk data, and configuration of a virtual machine at a specific point in time) |
| virtual machine template | modello di macchina virtuale (A library resource consisting of a guest operating system profile, a hardware profile, and one or more virtual hard disks (.vhd files), which can be used to create a new virtual machine. Computer identify information must have been removed from the .vhd file that contains the operating system files by using the System Preparation tool (Sysprep). Self-service users must use designated templates to create their virtual machines) |
| virtual machine-based desktop deployment | distribuzione di desktop basati su macchine virtuali (A deployment that allows users to run multiple client operating systems on a single server hosted on Hyper-V) |
| Virtual Machines | Macchine virtuali (The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offer in Windows Azure that allows customers to deploy persistent virtual machines with nearly any server workload they want) |
| Virtual Machines view | visualizzazione Macchine virtuali (The view in the Virtual Machine Manager Administrator Console in which the administrator monitors, operates, migrates, clones, and creates checkpoints for virtual machines that are deployed on a virtual machine host) |
| virtual memory | memoria virtuale (Temporary storage used by a computer to run programs that need more memory than is physically installed on the computer) |
| Virtual Memory Size | Dimensioni memoria virtuale (In Task Manager, the amount of virtual memory, or address space, committed to a process) |
| virtual-mode data binding | associazione dati in modalità virtuale (A type of data binding in which a data-bound control retrieves only as many rows from the database as the user will be able to see on the screen) |
| virtual network | rete virtuale (A virtual version of a physical network switch. A virtual network can be configured to provide access to local or external network resources for one or more virtual machines) |
| Virtual Network Manager | Gestione reti virtuali (A Hyper-V component used to create and manage virtual networks) |
| virtual network number | numero di rete virtuale (A 4-byte hexadecimal number used for addressing and routing purposes. The internal network number identifies a virtual network inside a computer. The internal network number must be unique to the IPX internetwork) |
| virtual object | oggetto virtuale (Any content or control in an application that a user can interact with, i.e. a menu, a button, the background, etc) |
| virtual path | percorso virtuale (A sequence of names that is used to locate a file and that has the same form as a pathname in the file system but is not necessarily the actual sequence of directory names under which the file is located. The part of a URL that follows the server name is a virtual path. For example, if the directory c:\bar\sinister\forces\distance on the server miles is shared on the local area network at foo.com under the name \\miles\baz and contains the file elena.html, that file may be returned by a Web request for http://miles.foo.com/baz/elena.html) |
| virtual printer memory | memoria virtuale della stampante (In a PostScript printer, a part of memory that stores font information. The memory in PostScript printers is divided into two areas: banded memory and virtual memory. The banded memory contains graphics and page-layout information needed to print your documents. The virtual memory contains any font information that is sent to your printer either when you print a document or when you download fonts) |
| virtual private network | rete privata virtuale (The extension of a private network that encompasses encapsulated, encrypted, and authenticated links across shared or public networks. VPN connections typically provide remote access and router-to-router connections to private networks over the Internet) |
| virtual private network | rete privata virtuale (The extension of a private network that encompasses encapsulated, encrypted, and authenticated links across shared or public networks. VPN connections typically provide remote access and router-to-router connections to private networks over the Internet) |
| virtual processor | processore virtuale (In the Concurrency Runtime, in the Task Scheduler, an abstraction of a physical processing resource. Just one context executes at any given time on a virtual processor. Every scheduler instance contains a collection of virtual processors, and every virtual processor maps to a virtual processor root in the Resource Manager) |
| virtual processor root | radice del processore virtuale (In the Concurrency Runtime, in the Resource Manager, an abstraction of a physical processing resource. To enable oversubscription of hardware threads, multiple virtual processor roots can map to one physical processing resource) |
| virtual registry | registro virtuale (The subsystem that intercepts and redirects registry requests for keys and values from application processes running in a virtual environment. The redirection is based on the registry information defined in the application package and created or modified through interaction with a virtual application) |
| virtual server | server virtuale (In a server cluster, a collection of services that appear to clients as a physical Windows-based server but are not associated with a specific server. A virtual server is typically a resource group that contains all of the resources needed to run a particular application and that can be failed over like any other resource group. All virtual servers must include a Network Name resource and an IP Address resource) |
| virtual services | servizi virtuali (The subsystem that acts as the Service Control Manager (SCM) for services running in a virtual environment) |
| virtual shared folder | cartella virtuale condivisa (A mailbox folder structure on some IMAP servers in which mail folders are accessed with the administrator username and password, and shell login access to the mail server is not allowed. Access to specific mailboxes is managed by access control lists. This means that users are assigned the permissions to only access their mailbox folder, while an administrator has access to all mailboxes. This allows organizations to use administrative credentials to migrate e-mail from an IMAP server to Outlook Live) |
| Virtual Smart Card | Smart card virtuale (The ability for some devices to act like physical smart cards even if they aren't) |
| virtual switch | commutatore virtuale (A virtual version of a physical network switch. A virtual network can be configured to provide access to local or external network resources for one or more virtual machines) |
| virtual terminal | terminal virtuale (A device abstraction of a real terminal) |
| virtual-to-virtual machine conversion | conversione da macchina virtuale a macchina virtuale (" The process by which a functioning virtual machine created in VMware is "converted" to an identical, or nearly identical, virtual machine in Virtual Machine Manager.") |
| Windows Azure Virtual Machines | Macchine virtuali di Windows Azure (The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offer in Windows Azure that allows customers to deploy persistent virtual machines with nearly any server workload they want) |
| Windows PowerShell - Virtual Machine Manager command shell | Windows PowerShell - shell dei comandi Virtual Machine Manager (The command shell, based on Windows PowerShell (Powershell.exe), that makes available the cmdlets that perform all functions in Virtual Machine Manager) |
