Below is a list of acronyms that are often used when talking about VMware technology. If I forgot some, let me know.
TYPE | ACRONYM | FULL |
CERTIFICATIONS | VCA4-DT | VMware Certified Associate 4 – Desktop |
CERTIFICATIONS | VCAP4-DCA | VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Datacenter Administration |
CERTIFICATIONS | VCAP4-DCD | VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Datacenter Design |
CERTIFICATIONS | VCDX4 | VMware Certified Design Expert |
CERTIFICATIONS | VCP4 | VMware Certified Professional |
CERTIFICATIONS | VSP | VMware Sales Professional |
CERTIFICATIONS | VTSP | VMware Technical Sales Professional |
FUNCTIONS | CIM | Common Interface Model |
FUNCTIONS | DPM | Distributed Power Management |
FUNCTIONS | DRS | Distributed Resource Scheduler |
FUNCTIONS | FT | Fault Tolerance |
FUNCTIONS | HA | High Availability |
FUNCTIONS | NETIOC | Network I/O Control |
FUNCTIONS | P2V | Physical to Virtual |
FUNCTIONS | SIOC | Storage I/O Control |
FUNCTIONS | SMP | Symmetrical Multi Processing |
FUNCTIONS | V2V | Virtual to Virtual |
FUNCTIONS | VAAI | vStorage API for Array Integration |
FUNCTIONS | VCLI | vMware vSphere Command Line Interface |
FUNCTIONS | vDS | vNetwork Distributed Switch |
PRODUCTS | ADM | VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager |
PRODUCTS | ERS | vFabric Enterprise Ready Server |
PRODUCTS | MVP | VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform |
PRODUCTS | SRM | VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager |
PRODUCTS | VCD | VMware vCloud Director |
PRODUCTS | VCM | VMware vCenter Configuration Manager |
PRODUCTS | VCO | VMware vCenter Orchestrator |
PRODUCTS | VCOPS | VMware vCenter Operations (standard, Advanced, Enterprise) |
PRODUCTS | VDR | VMware Data Recovery |
PRODUCTS | VMA | vSphere Management Assistant |
PRODUCTS | VSA | Vsphere Storage Appliance |
PRODUCTS | VSM | VMware Service Manager |
PRODUCTS | VUM | VMware vCenter Update Manager |
ROLES | PSO | Professional Services Organisation |
ROLES | TAM | Technical Account Manager |