Users Guide

Figure 1. vSphere components

Overview of ESXi architecture

ESXi is a bare-metal enterprise class hypervisor that can be preinstalled on the PowerEdge servers. With the reduced footprint of the

hypervisor, ESXi is integrated with PowerEdge servers by using embedded Secure Digital (SD) card.

Integrated virtualization by VMware offers the following features:

• Ease of deployment

• Integrated hardware monitoring

• Enhanced security

• Reduced patch management

• Improved reliability

The following figure shows an overview of the ESXi architecture.

Introduction