VMware:- Some of Acronyms and Abbreviations

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DAS - Distributed Availability Service

DPM - Distributed Power Management
DRS - Distributed Resources Scheduler
DVS - Distributed Virtual Switch
ESXi - Elastic Sky X Integrated
EVC - Enhanced vMotion Compatibility
FDM - Fault Domain Manager
FT - Fault Tolerance
HA - High Availability
HCL - Hardware Compatibility List
IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service
P2V - Physical to Virtual
PaaS - Platform as a Service
PDL - Permanent Device Loss
SaaS - Software as a Service
SIOC - Storage I/O Control
SR-IOV - Single Root I/O Virtualization
SRM - Site Recovery Manager
TAM - Technical Account Manager
V2V - Virtual to Virtual
VC - Virtual Center
VCD - vCloud Director
VCF - VMware Cloud Foundation
VCIM - vCloud Integration Manager
VCLI - vSphere Command Line Interface
VCM - vCenter Configuration Manager
vCSA - vCenter Server Appliance
VDC - Virtual Data Center
VDP - vSphere Data Protection
VDR - VMware Data Recovery
VDS - vNetwork Distributed Switch
VIM - Virtual Infrastructure Management
VM - Virtual Machine
VMFS - Virtual Machine File System
VMRC - VMware Remote Console
VMS - vFabric Management Service
VMSA - VMware Security Advisory
VMTN - VMware Technology Network
VMX - Virtual Machine eXecutable
VPX - Virtual Provisioning X
VPXA - Virtual Provisioning X Agent
VPXD - Virtual Provisioning X Daemon
VR - vSphere Replication
VRM - vCloud Request Manager
VSA - vSphere Storage Appliance
VSM - VMware Service Manager
VSP - VMware Sales Professional
vswif - Virtual Switch Interface
VUM - vCenter Update Manager
VXLAN - Virtual Extensible Local Area Network

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