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  • 1.  ESX & ESXi

    Posted May 02, 2012 01:01 AM

    What are the basic differences between ESX & ESXi. Could someone please tell this in interview point of view. Just need around 4 to 5 differences.

    Thanks,

    Prashant



  • 2.  RE: ESX & ESXi
    Best Answer

    Posted May 02, 2012 01:11 AM

    The Difference between ESX and ESXi is that ESX was the classic version having a dedicated Service console embedded with it, however ESXi is the the version of Vsphere without the service Console. Since ESXi is without the service console, therefore its size is very small and its been referred to as having small disk footprint. Vmware with the release of VSphere 5.0 and later has deprecated the classic ESX version so there is no more ESX now available and we have only ESXi now.



  • 3.  RE: ESX & ESXi

    Posted May 02, 2012 05:05 AM

    Hi,

    This KB article talks about difference in vsphere 4.

    http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1015000



  • 4.  RE: ESX & ESXi

    Posted May 03, 2012 06:23 PM

    Thank You.

    -Prashant



  • 5.  RE: ESX & ESXi

    Posted May 02, 2012 05:10 AM

    Thread moved to ESX/Esxi community