ESX4 vm's on Itanium

[scotty_p]

Does anyone know if you can run 32 bit virtual machines on an ESX4 server running on an Itanium server?

Thanks,

Scott

[vmroyale · Accepted solution]

Hello.

Itanium is not a supported platform.

Good Luck!

[krowczynski]

Why do you wnt to use Itanium?

[TomHowarth]

VMware and XEN and Hyper-V as well do not support any chipsets other then i386 based. so no Itanium. Sparc etc.

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[scotty_p]

We are trying to figure out if the performance will be better on Itanium or Intel 64 servers. I guess since it's not supported on Itanium, we won't be going that route.

Thanks,

Scott