Acronyms
Acronyms (Part 2)
VMWare
Virtual Machines
100
VM
What is Virtual Machine?
100
SSD
What is Solid state disk, a non-rotational drive that is faster than rotating drives.
100
vSphere
What is Collection of VMs, ESXi hosts, and vCenter Server.
100
VM Snapshot
What is A point-in-time representation of a VM.
200
VMFS
What is Virtual Machine File System for ESXi hosts, a clustered file system for running VMs.
200
ISO
What is Image file, taken from ISO 9660file system for optical drives
200
vmkernel
What is Officially the "operating system" that runs ESXi and delivers storage networking for VMs.
200
vSwitch
What is A virtual switch, places VMs on a physical network.
300
SAN
What is Storage area network, a shared storage technique for block protocols.
300
VUM
What is vSphere Update Manager, a way to update hosts and VMs with latest patches, VMware Tools and product updates.
300
vSphere Client
What is Administrative interface of vCenter Server.
300
Virtual Appliance
What is A pre-packed VM with an application on it.
400
NAS
What is Network attached storage, a shared storage technique for file protocols (NFS).
400
vCLI
What is vSphere Command Line Interface, allows tasks to be run against hosts and vCenter Server.
400
vSphere Web Client
What is Web-based administrative interface of vCenter Server.
400
Host Profiles
What is Feature to deploy a pre-determined configuration to an ESXi host.
500
NFS
What is Network file system, a file-based storage protocol.
500
DNS
What is Domain Name Service, a name resolution protocol.
500
vCenter Server
What is Server application that runs vSphere.
500
Auto Deploy
What is Technique to automatically install ESXi to a host.
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