- Up to eight-way virtual SMP (symmetric multiprocessing), enabling the virtualization of multiprocessor workloads
- Memory overcommittment and deduplication, allowing higher consolidation ratios
- Broadest OS support of any hypervisor
- Built-in high availability through NIC teaming and HBA multipathing to protect against hardware component failures
- Get easy-to-use production-ready virtualization
- Create your first virtual machine in just minutes
- Consolidate with peace of mind
- Deliver enterprise performance to your applications
- Save more money than with other hypervisors
- Manage VMware ESXi from anywhere
- Upgrade seamlessly to VMware vSphere when you're ready
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.
Deliver unmatched levels of performance and reliability with VMware ESXi while saving money on hardware, power and cooling costs and running a more responsive datacenter.
Create virtual machines quickly and easily with the menu-driven startup and automatic configurations or import a virtual appliance (a prepackaged virtual machine) from the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace. You can also deploy servers that have VMware ESXi preinstalled to experience true "plug and play" virtualization.
Deploy a mature hypervisor technology that runs in tens of thousands of customer environments. Most hypervisors in the market today rely on a built-in operating system to perform core virtualization tasks such as allocating hardware resources to the various virtual machines that run on top. This means that your virtual machines are only as reliable as the built-in operating system. VMware ESXi has an ultra thin design with no reliance on a general purpose operating system. This architecture allows you to avoid the security hardening, user access control, anti-virus tasks and patching associated with a typical operating system. Its ultra thin code base installs directly on the server hardware for the ultimate reliability.
Run email, databases, ERP and other resource-intensive applications on VMware ESXi's bare-metal architecture offering advanced memory management and support for scaled-up physical and virtual machines. You can also choose from the broadest range of supported guest operating systems, including Windows, Linux, NetWare, Solaris and more.
Get higher consolidation ratios with VMware ESXi. The memory and CPU scheduling optimizations in VMware ESXi let you run virtual machines at twice the consolidation ratio possible with other first-generation hypervisors. Fewer servers mean more cost savings.
Get point-and-click management for your ESXi host and its virtual machines using the intuitive graphical interface of VMware vSphere Client. Take snapshots of your virtual machines and roll back changes when testing patches or updates, monitor performance and resource utilization, and perform basic hardware component monitoring.