vChinese

Why am I in Beijing this week, you ask? I'm teamed up with a co-worker. Our job is to evaluate instructor candidates. As you might imagine, the language barrier can be a bit of a challenge, but that's how I approach it - it's a challenge.

That's "challenge" as in "good", not "challenge" as in "bad".

I've taken it upon myself to learn some Chinese Simplified characters. But as you can see from my notes below, I've been teaching myself a very small subset of Chinese Simplified... Let's call it "vChinese".

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Why did I write "long" as the character for "hypervisor"? I've been transcribing the characters from slides that the instructor candidates are projecting onto a screen. Unlike me, they don't hang out on a slide blabbing on and on for 20+ minutes. I don't want to bust their groove and say, "Hey can you go back a slide? I'm not done clumsily transcribing yet."

For the record, "hypervisor" is 虚拟化 管理程序. Let's see you try to transcribe that on the fly.

Here for your edification – that's just a fancy word for "Brian I can barely read your block-capped English writing let alone your vChinese" – is a legible list of those words/characters:

the:  第

lesson:  课 

storage:  存储 

network:  网络 

application:  应用 

physical:  物理 

virtual:  虚拟

virtualization:  虚拟化 

machine:  机 

architecture:  体系结构 

datastore:  数据存储 

private cloud:  私有云 

public cloud:  公有云 

hybrid cloud:  混合云 

availability:  可用性 

ESXi host:  ESXi 主机 

user name:  用户名 

password:  密码 

lab:  练习 

number:  号码 or 数量  (I haven't figured out the difference yet.)

file:  文件 

and:  和 

hypervisor:  虚拟化 管理程序 

synchronized:  同步

Datacenter: 数据中心

Cluster: 集群
Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN): 主机域名全称 

License key: 许可证密钥
System logs: 系统日志
vMotion migration: 迁移??? 

vMotion: 迁移 (confirm)
Virtual machine port groups: 虚拟机端口组
Uplink ports: 上行链路端口
Virtual switch: 虚拟交换机
Physical switch: 物理交换机
Physical NIC: 物理网卡 

Virtual NIC: 虚拟网卡 

Cisco Discovery Protocol: Cisco 发现协议 (CDP)
Listen: 侦听
Broadcast: 广播
Listen and broadcast: 侦听和广播以及

Disabled: 禁用 Time: 时间
Outbound bandwidth: 出站带宽
Load balancing: 负载平衡
Source MAC Hash: 源 MAC 哈希
IP Hash: IP 哈希
Raw Device Mapping: 原始设备映射
Or: 或
IP Address: IP 地址
Software: 软件 

Hardware: 硬件
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP): 质询握手身份验证协议 (CHAP)
Driver: 驱动程序
Third-party Vendors: 第三方供应商
Most Recently Used (MRU): 最近使用
Fixed: 固定
Round Robin: 循环
Availability: 可用性 Scalability: 可扩展性
Hard disks: 硬盘
If: 如
Clone: 克隆

Snapshots: 快照

Powered off: 关闭时???  关闭???
Powered on: 开机 ???    启动 ???
Boot: 引导
Boot options: 引导选项
Yes: 是???    是的???
No: 否
Applicable: 适用Not applicable: 不适用
RAM: 内存
Compatible: 兼容的 

Source: 源
Destination: 目标???
Bit: 位
Bitmap: 位图
Process: 进程???    流程???
Layer 2 network: 第 2 层网络
On: 上
Prefix in front of number to turn cardinal (e.g. 1, 2, 3) to ordinal (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd):  第

Operating System: 操作系统  

Balloon driver: 内存释放驱动程序 (literally “memory release driver”)

 Balloon: 气球
Host-level SSD swap: 主机级
SSD 交换
Limit: 限制
Reservation: 预留
Shares: 份额
Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)非统一内存访问
Hyperthreading: 超线程
Load balancing: 负载平衡
Transparent Page Sharing (TPS): 透明页共享
Memory Compression: 内存压缩
Swap file: 交换文件
Available memory: 可用内存
NIC teaming: 网卡捆绑
Multipathing: 多路径
Traffic Shaping: 流量调整
Resource Pool: 资源池
Selected: 选择Deselected: 取消选择
Task Manager: 任务管理器
Error: 错误
Warning: 警告
Info: 信息
Verbose: 详细
Trivia: 细致

And for my own reference...

0:  零
1:  一
2:  二
3:  三
4:  四
5:  五
6:  六
7:  七
8:  八
9:  九
10:  十