Re: Machine Identity

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Thu, 28 February 2008 15:20 UTC

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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:20:30 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Balazs Lengyel <balazs.lengyel@ericsson.com>
Subject: Re: Machine Identity
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:13:35PM +0100,
 Balazs Lengyel <balazs.lengyel@ericsson.com> wrote 
 a message of 10 lines which said:

> what are you trying to identify. The physical box or the virtual
> machine?

The Unit of Management. It is here the virtual machine but, in other
cases, it may be a cluster of tightly cooperating machines.