VDI

(1) (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) Coined by VMware for its VMware server and Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM), the VDI term is used generically for desktop virtualization, in which client desktops are run in virtual machines in a server. See desktop virtualization and thin client.

(2) (Video Device Interface) An Intel standard for speeding up full-motion video performance. See DCI.

(3) (Virtual Device Interface) An ANSI standard format for creating device drivers. VDI was incorporated into CGI.

VDI

Acronym	Definition
VDI➣Virtual Desk Infrastructure (computing model)
VDI➣Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
VDI➣Virtual Disk Image
VDI➣Valsts Darba Inspekcijas (Latvian: State Labour Inspection)
VDI➣Virtual Device Interface
VDI➣Video Data Input
VDI➣Video Disk Interactive
VDI➣Variable Intake Diesel Direct Injection
VDI➣Video Display Input
VDI➣Vector Display Indicator
VDI➣Video Data Interface
VDI➣Virtual Development Interface
VDI➣Vendeur à Domicile Indépendant (French: Independent Home Vendor; vendor status; France)
VDI➣Voix, Données, Images (French: Voice, Data, Image; building communication channels)
VDI➣Verein Deutsche Ingenieure (Society of German Engineers)
VDI➣Vested Development, Inc. (Burlington, MA)
VDI➣Video Display Interface
VDI➣Vantan Design Institute (Japan)
VDI➣Vehicle Dependability Index (JD Powers)
VDI➣Video Device Interface
VDI➣Visual Defence, Inc. (Canada)
VDI➣Vista Drive Icon (software)
VDI➣Voluntary Disability Insurance
VDI➣V Differential Input
VDI➣Vending Data Interchange (wireless telemetry)
VDI➣Vertical Display Indicator
VDI➣Verbal Dispatch Instruction
VDI➣Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Defective Interfering Particle Repressor
VDI➣Verification, Design and Implementation
VDI➣Voice Data Integrator
VDI➣Verify Dispatch Information (Dell)