VMware ESXi: The Purpose-Built Bare Metal Hypervisor
https://www.vmware.com/products/esxi-and-esx.html
Discover a robust, bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto your physical server.
With direct access to and control of underlying resources, VMware ESXi effectively partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs.
It’s the industry leader for efficient architecture, setting the standard for reliability, performance, and support.
IT teams are under constant pressure to meet fluctuating market trends and heightened customer demands.
At the same time, they must stretch IT resources to accommodate increasingly complex projects. Fortunately, ESXi helps balance the need for both better business outcomes and IT savings. VMware ESXi enables you to:
Consolidate hardware for higher capacity utilization.
Increase performance for a competitive edge.
Streamline IT administration through centralized management.
Reduce CapEx and OpEx.
Minimize hardware resources needed to run the hypervisor, meaning greater efficiency.
ESXi是vmware推出的一款優秀的服務器級別的虛擬機。它與我們常用的虛擬機不同的是，日常使用的虛擬機是需要依賴於一個操作系統的，比如在window上使用vmware，或者linux上使用virtualbox。而ESXi不依賴於任何操作系統，它本身就可以看作一個操作系統，然後可以在它上面安裝系統。