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Sarath_Chem
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Hi

What is difference between VMware ESX and VMware ESXi?:smileyconfused:

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chriswahl
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ESX (sometimes termed as ESX Classic) had a mangement console operating system and had a significantly larger logical surface area. This was removed in ESXi, everything runs directly on the vmkernel, and is the only hypervisor available from VMware in vSphere 5.X and later.

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/esxi-and-esx/compare.html#compared

VCDX #104 (DCV, NV) ஃ WahlNetwork.com ஃ @ChrisWahl ஃ Author, Networking for VMware Administrators
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Sarath_Chem
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Thanks for your reply.

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