Technical differences between VMware ESX and ESXi
Last year, VMware released its light weight ESXi hypervisor for free. So, what are some of the differences between ESX and ESXi? David Sumsky compiled a few differences in his blog. Some of the differences noted include:
- ESXi is supported on a smaller set of certified hardware than ESX
- ESX can be managed via serial cable - ESXi cannot
- ESXi does not support Jumbo Frames
- ESXi does not support NetQueue (10G Ethernet)
- ESXi does support all VMware Infrastructure features (license required) such as vMotion, schedule resources, backup, etc.
- Annual support is not required (you can pay per incident if necessary)
- There is not service console in ESXi
- ESXi only requires 32MB free disk space (making it easy to install on solid state like USB)
- There is no Virtual Center agent in ESXi
- SSH access is not supported by default. Remote Command Line Interface (RCLI) is the default.
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