ESXi is a bare-metal enterprise class hypervisor that can be preinstalled on PowerEdge servers. With the reduced footprint of the hypervisor, ESXi is integrated with PowerEdge servers by using BOSS-S1 or BOSS-N1 cards or other supported boot media.
Integrated virtualization by VMware offers the following features:
Ease of deployment
Integrated hardware monitoring
Enhanced security
Reduced patch management
Improved reliability
The following figure shows an overview of the ESXi architecture.
Figure 1. ESXi architecture
Virtual SAN installation
For more information about VMware documentation for vSAN installation, see the
VMware Virtual SAN Production Information Guide at
Virtualization solutions.
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