Virtualization
VMware ESXi.
Enterprise hypervisor and foundation of the VMware vSphere platform — providing bare-metal virtualization for x86 servers, with support for all major guest operating systems and direct integration with vCenter.
Overview
VMware ESXi is the bare-metal hypervisor that forms the foundation of VMware vSphere — the world's leading virtualization platform. ESXi runs directly on server hardware without a general-purpose operating system, providing a thin, secure virtualization layer that maximizes the resources available to virtual machines.
STME is a VMware Solution Provider with certified engineers across the GCC. STME designs, deploys, and manages VMware vSphere environments for enterprise clients — from initial ESXi cluster design and deployment through to ongoing managed operations and capacity management.
Key features
- Bare-metal hypervisor — no host OS overhead
- vSphere vMotion for live VM migration between hosts
- vSphere DRS for automated workload balancing
- vSAN integration for hyper-converged storage
- Support for Windows, Linux, and other guest OS families
- vSphere HA for automatic VM restart on host failure
- NSX integration for software-defined networking
Specifications
Type
Type-1 bare-metal hypervisor
Max vCPUs/VM
768 (vSphere 8)
Max RAM/VM
24TB (vSphere 8)
Clustering
vSphere HA, DRS, vMotion
Management
vCenter Server
Use cases
Private cloud infrastructure
Data center consolidation
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
Related products
VMware vCenter Converter
Physical-to-virtual (P2V) and virtual-to-virtual (V2V) migration tool — enabling hot migration of live Windows and Linux systems to VMware virtual machines without downtime.
VMware ESXi
Enterprise hypervisor and foundation of the VMware vSphere platform — providing bare-metal virtualization for x86 servers, with support for all major guest operating systems and direct integration with vCenter.
VMware Capacity Planner
Pre-virtualization assessment tool for capacity planning — collecting performance data from physical servers to model virtualization consolidation ratios and recommend vSphere deployment sizing.
HDS Universal Volume Manager
External storage virtualization for HDS VSP — enabling heterogeneous storage arrays from third-party vendors to be managed and migrated through a single HDS VSP controller, simplifying multi-vendor environments.