Vmware Jargons

TKG: Tnazu kubernatives Grid
DLF:  Dormant License file
SKU: Stock keeping unit
SFF: Small foam factor
LFF: Large foam factor
IoCs: Indicators of compromise
CMP: Cloud Management Platform
EMM: Enterprise Mobility Management 
MAM: Mobile Application Management
MDM: Mobile Device Management
RAN: Radio Access Network
UEM: Unified Endpoint Management
VIM: Virtual Infrastructure Managers
CHO: continuous hours of Operation
XDR: extended detection and response
DECC: Distributed elastic container cloud
EDRS: elastic dynamic resource schedular
HCX: hybrid cloud extension 
DRaaS: Disaster recovery as a service
VPS : VMware platform services
WCP: workload control plane 
VCSA:  Vcenter server appliance
EUC: End user computing
VDI: Virtual desktop infra
PSC : platform services controller 
HCI: Hyper-converged infrastructure
VUM: Vsphere update manager
VI: Virtual Infrastructure
LCM: Life Cycle Management
AVNs: Application virtual networks
vLCM: vSphere Lifecycle Manager
VUM: vSphere Update Manager
CVSS: Common Vulnerability Scoring System
VIB: Vsphere infrastructure bundle
IPAM: IP Address Management
RTM: Ready to market
CDO: Controller Disconnected Operation
IPFIX: Internet protocol flow information export protocol
OVSDB: Open virtual switch database
LLDP: Link layer discovery protocol
LCP: local control plane
LIF: logical interface
VIF: virtual interface
MTEP: Proxy TEP
NFV: Network function virtualization
APH: Appliance Proxy Hub
VSIP: Vmware inter networking service insertion platform
VDPI: Vmware deep packet inspection
CCP: central control plane
SVM: service virtual machine
BIB: Binding information base
IDaaS: Identity as a service
GM and LM: global and local manager
RTEP: remote tunnel endpoint
NDR: NSX network detection and response
NTA: Network Traffic Analysis
NI: NSX-Intelligence
NTA: Network Traffic Analysis
NDR: Network Detection and Response
VRNI: VRealize Network Insight
CB: Carbon Black
CRUD: Create Read Update Delete
UI: User Interface
DFW: Distributed Firewall
IDFW: Identity Distributed Firewall
VC: VMware vCenter Server
VM: Virtual Machine
AD: Anomaly Detection
TGW: transit gateway
APT: Advanced Persistent Threats
NTICS: NSX Threat Intel Cloud
FC: feature complete
RC: release candidate
GA: General availability
GKE: Google Kubernetes Engine
NCP: NSX-T Container Plug-in
CCP: Central Control Plane
LCP: Local Control Plane
CMP: Cloud Management Platform 
EDP: Enhanced Data Path
FT: Fault Tolerance
FDB: Filtering database
DR: distributed routing component
SR: services routing component
VMC: VMware Cloud on AWS
MaaS: Management as a service
NAP: Network application platform
CB: Carbon black
VTEP: VM kernel port that required for VxLAN
DRS: Distributed Resource Scheduler 
DVS: Distributed Virtual Switch
OVF: Open Virtualization Format
VXLAN: Virtual eXtensible LAN
DDK : Device Driver Kit
DNAT: Destination NAT
DPDK:  Data Plane Development Kit
NIOC: Network I/O Control (vSphere)
OVA: The Open Virtualization Alliance
SDN: Software-defined network
VaaS: VMware as a Service
VDC: Virtual Data Center
VDDK: Virtual Disk Development Kit
VDR: VMware Data Recovery;Virtual Distributed Router
VMDK: virtual machine disk
VMRC: VMware Remote Client 
VNI: VXLAN Network Identifier
DAS: Direct attached storage
SSD: Solid state disk
vDS: vNetwork Distributed Switch
vCSA: Virtual appliance edition of vCenter Server
vSphere SDRS: Storage DRS
UFO: Unified framework object
LB: multi-cloud load-balancing
TOT: Top of Tree
BM: Bare Metal
PVC: persistent volume claim
FCD: first class disk
SPBM: Storage policy based management
NCP: NSX container plugin
CSI: container storage interface
PKS: Tanzu kubernetes Grid integrated edition
CNS: cloud native storage
U2: means update 2
PRD: Product requirement document
EP: Express patch
NSX Application Platform (NAPP)
NCP: NSX container plugin
LCM: Cloud provider life cycle management
MUB (main upgrade bundle)
Upgrade Coordinator (UC)
UFO: Unified framework object
RTM build: Ready to market