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VMware ESXi
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VMware ESXi is the enterprise-level virtualization product offered from VMware. VMware ESXi adds management and reliability services to the core server product. The basic server requires some form of persistent storage (an array of hard disk drives) for storing the virtualization kernel and support files. A variant of this design, VMware ESXi, does away with the first requirement by moving the server kernels into a dedicated hardware device. The ESXi product runs on "bare metal", i.e. it does not run atop a third-party operating system but includes its own kernel. A Linux kernel is started first, and is used to load a variety of specialized virtualization components, including VMware's 'vmkernel' component. |
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