ESXi

VMware ESXi is the easiest way to get started with virtualization—and it’s free. Consolidate your applications onto fewer servers and start saving money through reduced hardware, power, cooling and administration costs. VMware ESXi has been optimized and tested to run even your most resource intensive applications and databases with minimal performance overhead. With VMware ESXi you can:

• Run multiple operating systems on a single server and reduce hardware costs
• Run a greener datacenter and reduce your energy cost
• Enable easier back-ups and restores for your applications
• Run the most resource intensive applications in production

Key Features

Record-setting performance with up to 8,900 database transactions per second, 200,000 I/O operations per second, and up to 16,000 Exchange mailboxes on a single physical host

Up to eight-way virtual SMP (symmetric multiprocessing), enabling the virtualization of multiprocessor workloads* (8-way vSMP requires vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing)

Memory over committment and deduplication, allowing higher consolidation ratios

Broadest OS support of any hypervisor, enabling IT to virtualize numerous versions of Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, NetWare®, and other operating systems.

Built-in high availability through NIC teaming and HBA multipathing to protect against hardware component failures

Up to 64 logical processing cores, 256 virtual CPUs, and 1TB RAM per host, enabling higher consolidation ratios

•   ESXi Data Sheet