VMware's announcement last week on the new vCloud Hybrid Services offering generated quite a bit of buzz and excitement. One thing that I had noticed on Twitter during the announcement as well as the days following was discussions around the pronunciation of the vCloud Hybrid Services acronym (vCHS). There were couple of "ways" that folks have heard it pronounced and I thought I write this fun little post and share what the "official" ways of pronouncing some of these acronyms are (at least from my understanding working at VMware)
Disclaimer: I have no comments on us putting little v's on everything 😉
Below are the top VMware products/features that I have heard multiple acronyms for and the controversial on how to properly pronounce each of them. I have also provided a link to Google translate which provides a nice text-to-speech (lower right bottom) so you can listen to each of the official pronunciation. If there are other pronunciations that you have heard or any corrections, feel free to leave a comment.
| Product | Official | Other |
|---|---|---|
| vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) | vo-va (http://translate.google.com/#en/es/vo-va) | N/A |
| VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) | v-san (http://translate.google.com/#en/es/v-san) | N/A |
| vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC) | v-f-r-c (http://translate.google.com/#en/es/v-f-r-c) | N/A |
| vCloud Air (vCA) | v-c-a (http://translate.google.com/#en/es/v-c-a) | N/A |
| v-chess (http://translate.google.com/#en/es/v-chess) | v-cheese v-c-h-s | |
| vRealize Air Compliance (vRAC) | N/A | N/A |
| vRealize Operations Insight (vRI) | N/A | N/A |
| vRealize Operations (vROPs) | vee-rops (http://translate.google.com/#en/es/vee-rops) | N/A |
| v-c-ops (http://translate.google.com/#en/es/v-c-ops) | v-cops | |
| vRealize Automation (vR / vRAuto) | v-ra (http://translate.google.com/#en/es/v-ra) vr-auto (http://translate.google.com/#en/es/vr-auto) | N/A |
| v-cake (http://translate.google.com/#en/es/v-cake) | v-c-a-c v-cac | |
| vRealize Business (vRBus) | N/A | N/A |
| vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) | N/A | N/A |
| v-c-log (http://translate.google.com/#en/es/v-c-log) | Log Insight | |
| vRealize Code Stream (vRCS) | N/A | N/A |
| vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) | N/A | N/A |
| vRealize Hyperic (vRH) | N/A | N/A |
| vRealize Application Services (vRAS) | N/A | N/A |
Can you cite a source for v-chess as the official vCHS pronunciation? (This is the first I've heard it not be v-cheese)
Yes, VMware who I work for 🙂
I like "V-torta"
I vote for v-cops
Virtual Cops 🙂
Hey William a new one for you:
vCenter Log Insight (vC LOG)
Official
* v-c-log
Other
* Log Insight
Added. Thanks Steve