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 |