VMware Storage Technology Names & Acronyms

vSAN = VMware’s Software Defined Storage Solution formerly known as Virtual SAN or VSAN. Now the only acceptible name is “vSAN” with the little “v”.
SPBM = Storage Policy Based Management
VASA = vSphere API’s for Storage Awareness
VVol = Virtual Volume
PE = Protocol Endpoint
VAAI = vSphere API’s for Array Integration
VAIO Filtering = vSphere API’s for IO Filtering
VR = vSphere Replication
SRM = Site Recovery Manager
VDP = vSphere Data Protection
vFRC = vSphere Flash Read Cache
VSA = vSphere Storage Appliance (end of life)
VMFS = Virtual Machine File System
SvMotion = Storage vMotion
XvMotion – Across Host, Cluster, vCenter vMotion (without shared storage)
SDRS = Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler
SIOC = Storage Input Output Control
MPIO = Multi Path Input Output