CHAPTER 2Install and Configure ESXi 4
ESXi (Integrated) 4 is a version of ESX that ships with hardware. You can see it as an OEM edition of the product. In this guise, ESX is embedded into your hardware in memory chips or read-only memory (ROM). ESXi 4 has a much smaller footprint than the initial release of ESX 4.x, as it does not include the Service Console piece. As I noted in the previous chapter, the future of ESX lies with this embedded version.
If you’re upgrading from the previous version of ESXi, as you might have hoped, there isn’t much difference between ESXi 3 and ESXi 4. ESXi 4 now supports IPv6, as well as all the new features of ESX Classic, as noted in the previous chapter.
What’s New in ESXi 4? • Support for IPv6 • 64-bit only ... |
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