VMWARE GLOSSARY

Cluster A collection of hosts with aggregation of CPU and memory

resources.
Console Window Interact with the guest operating system, even if the virtual network
is disconnected.
Data store Physical storage used by virtual machines.
DRS The Distributed Resource Scheduler balances computing workloads
with available resources.
ESX Virtualization software that does not run on top of another operating
system.
ESXi Free virtualization software that does not run on top of another
operating system with reduced functionality.
Guest The operating system that runs in a virtual machine.
Host The operating system that has direct control of the hardware.
Hypervisor Software that controls virtual machines and manages resources.
Resource Pool A partition of memory and CPU resources from a single host or
cluster reserved for groups of servers or different purposes
Snapshot The state of a virtual machine at a specific point in time.
.VMDK File Files used as hard disks for virtual machines.
vMotion The migration of live virtual machines from one physical server to
another without service interruption.
vSwitch A virtual switch that works like a layer-2 physical switch. Each
server has its own virtual switches.




Current
AD | AppDir = vFabric Application Director
ADM = vCenter Application Discover Manager (previously: EMC Ionix Application Discovery
Manager, nLayers Application Discovery Manager)
APM = vFabric Application Performance Manager
CB | CBM = vCenter Chargeback Manager
CBRC = Content Based Read Cache (function of vSphere)
CF = Cloud Foundry
CIQ | CapIQ = vCenter Capacity IQ
CIS = Cloud Infrastructure Suite
DaaS = Desktop as a Service
DBaaS = Database as a Service
DD = vFabric Data Director
DPM = Distributed Power Management (function of vSphere)
DRS = Distributed Resource Scheduler (function of vSphere)
DVS = Distributed Virtual Switch, officially known as VDS (function of vSphere)
EM4J = Elastic Memory for Java
ESX = Elastic Sky X (bare metal Hypervisor with linux based Service Console available on each host)
ESXi = Elastic Sky X Integrated (thin bare metal Hypervisor without a Service Console which added
most of the size to the software distribution)
EUC = End User Computing (VMware Business Unit focused on end user facing solutions)
EVC = Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (function of vSphere)
EVDC = Elastic Virtual Data Center (function of vCD)
FT = Fault Tolerance (function of vSphere)
GFE = vFabric GemFire Enterprise
HA = High Availability (function of vSphere)
IaaS = Infrastructure as a Service
IODM = I/O Device Management (function of vSphere)
JVM = Java Virtual Machine
MHM = vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager
MVP = VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform
NIOC = Network I/O Control (function of vSphere)
NSX (VMW platform for Network Virtualization consisting of Nicira and vCNS components)
NVP = Network Virtualization Platform (from Nicira Acquisition)
OVDC = Organization Virtual Data Center (configuration aspect of VCD)
P2V = Physical to Virtual (process of converting physical server to Virtual Machine)
PaaS = Platform as a Service
PDL = Permanent Device Loss (aspect of HA, function of vSphere)
PVDC = Provider Virtual Data Center (configuration aspect of VCD)
S2 = SpringSource
SaaS = Software as a Service
SDDC = Software Defined Data Center
SDRS = Storage Distributed Resource Scheduling (function of vSphere)
SI = Spring Integration
SM = vCenter Service Manager (previously: EMC Ionix Service Manager, InfraEnterprise) (prior
abbreviation for vCenter Stage Manager which became integrated with LM4 and was depreciated)
SIOC = Storage I/O Control (function of vSphere)
SQLF = SQLFire (part of vFabric)
SRM = vCenter Site Recovery Manager
SR-IOV = Single Root I/O Virtualization (feature of vSphere)
STS = SpringSource Tool Suite
TCS = vFabric tcServer
V2V = Virtual to Virtual (process of converting one Virtual Machine to another Virtual Machine
format)
VAAI = vStorage API for Array Integration (feature of vSphere)
VADM = vCenter Application Discovery Manager
VAMI = Virtual Appliance Management Interface (component of VMware virtual appliance)
VC = generally used to reference Virtual Center or vCenter Server (eventual vCenter became a family
name for all management products)
VCAC = vCloud Automation Center (pronounced v-cake; previously: DynamicOps Cloud
Automation Center)
VCAT = vCloud Architecture Toolkit
VCBM = vCloud Business Manager
VCD = vCloud Director (aka, Project Redwood)
VCHS = vCloud Hybrid Service (pronounced v-chess; Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud
operated by VMware, built on vSphere)
VCIM = vCloud Integration Manager
VCLI = vSphere Command Line Interface (feature of vSphere)
VCM = vCenter Configuration Manager (previously: EMC Ionix Server Configuration Manager,
Configuresoft Enterprise Configuration Manager). Sometimes suggestion it should stand for vCenter
Compliance Manager, but it doesnt.
VCO = vCenter Orchestrator
VCOPS | vC Ops = vCenter Operations (eventually became a family name for all operational
management tools, VCOPS Manager is new name for dashboard analytics tool).
VCSN = vCloud Security and Networking (prior to VS5.1 was the vShield family of products)
VCVA = vCenter Virtual Appliance (Web GUI, Linux Virtual Appliance based Virtual Center Server)
VDC = Virtual Data Center (configuration aspect of VCD)
VDP = vSphere Data Protection
VDR = VMware Data Recovery (feature of vSphere)
VDS = vNetwork Distributed Switch or unofficially Virtual Distributed Switch (function of vSphere)
VIN = vCenter Infrastructure Navigator
VIP = VMware Infrastructure Planner
VMA = vSphere Management Assistant
VMFS = Virtual Machine File System
VMRC = VMware Remote Console
VMS = vFabric Management Service
VMW = VMware (NYSE stock symbol)
VPG = vFabric Postgres
VR = vSphere Replicator
VRM = vCloud Request Manager
VRMS = vSphere Replication Management Server (component of SRM)
VS = vSphere, packaging referring to vCenter Server and ESXi Hypervisor (ESXi 4.0, 4.1, 5.0)
VSA = vSphere Storage Appliance
VSM = VMware Service Manager
VSOM = vSphere with Operations Management
VUM = vCenter Update Manager
Deprecated
ASM = vCenter Application Stack Manager (previously: EMC Ionix Application Stack Manager,
FastScale Application Stack Manager)
CAM = vCenter Configuration Analytics Manager (previously: EMC Ionix Configuration Analytics
Manager, Configuresoft Configuration Intelligence Analytics)
ERS = Enterprise Ready Server (replaced by vFabric WebServer)
GSX = Ground Swell X or Ground Storm X (precursor hypervisor to ESX)
LCM = vCenter LifeCycle Manager
LM = vCenter Lab Manager (End of Life announced, product functionality replaced by vCloud
Director)
SD / vCSD = vCloud Service Director (originally know as Project Redwood, Service Director was a
short lived name before product was launched as vCloud Director.)
VCB = VMware Consolidate Backup (replaced with VDR in vSphere 5.1)
VI = Virtual Infrastructure (ESX 3.x)
VIEE = Virtual Infrastructure Enterprise Edition (ESX 3.x)