Each child has exactly one parent

VirtualApp

.

Each child can participate in power-on and power-off sequences.

The lifetime of each child is determined by the parent

VirtualApp

object.

Direct Children. A direct child of a virtual application is a virtual machine or virtual application object that you add explicitly. See Managing VirtualApp Children for a list of methods. Direct children share resources with the parent

VirtualApp

object. Both virtual machines and virtual application can be direct children.

Linked Children. A linked child of a virtual application is a virtual machine or virtual application that you add by calling the

UpdateLinkedChildren

method. Linked children increase the flexibility of the

VirtualApp

by allowing child entities to use different resources from the parent

VirtualApp

object. Linked children can be part of a different clusters, but a virtual application and its children must be in the same

Datacenter

. Both virtual machines and virtual applications can be linked children.

An

InvalidArgument

fault is thrown if the

UpdateLinkedChildren

method is called on a link target that is a direct child of another virtual application.

When you add a virtual machine or virtual application that is already a linked child of another virtual application, the existing link is removed and replaced with the new link.

The life-time of a linked child is determined by the

destroyWithParent

property on the

VAppEntityConfigInfo

data object. If set to

true

, the child is destroyed when the parent

VirtualApp

is destroyed. Otherwise, the link is removed when the

VirtualApp

is destroyed.