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Guys,
This is my first post in "Virtualization". Well i hope you all know that what is virtualization and how easily it is swallowing the scenario of "Single H/W Single OS".
Here i am posting about the difference between ESX & ESXi(Most comman Ques. in interviews) .The two most sucessful Bare Metal O/S of VMWARE.
2. ESXi Server’s service console (firewall)
The ESXi security profile configuration consists of a couple of services that you can either enable or not enable with inbound access. Here is a comparison between the two
3 Vmware ESXi Server has a " Yellow Service Console" Screen
Instead of the full ESX Server “service console” boot (which looks like a Linux server booting), ESXi has a tiny “Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)”. Unofficially, I like to call this the “yellow firmware console”. In this ESXi console, all that you can configure are some very basic ESXi server options such as the root user password, network settings, and a couple other items. In the graphic below, you can see why I call it “yellow”:
4 VMware ESXi Server is extremely thin =
fast installation + fast boot
Because the service console has been removed from ESXi, the footprint in memory has been reduced to 32MB. In comparison, the full ESX Server on disk footprint is about 2GB.
Because the hypervisor is so small, the installation happens in about 10 minutes (or so) and the server boots up in 1-2 minutes. This is quite different from the full ESX server installation and boot, both of which are longer
This is my first post in "Virtualization". Well i hope you all know that what is virtualization and how easily it is swallowing the scenario of "Single H/W Single OS".
Here i am posting about the difference between ESX & ESXi(Most comman Ques. in interviews) .The two most sucessful Bare Metal O/S of VMWARE.
1.
Service Console
ESX
Server : Having built-in virtual machine called
the “service console”. This service console is a modified version of RHEL that
is installed and running in every ESX Server. So most of the command line tools
are similar to
RHEL, Like there are number of ESX-related tools in the service console, most of
which start with “esxcfg-“ and run by
accessing the service console with SSH or via
Putty.
ESXi
Server : VMware ESXi Server has no service console, there is no SSH access
to the server and there are no 3rd party applications that can be installed on
the server. VMware came up with is the Remote Command line Interface
(RCLI). This is an application which install as a VM and it is used to perform
scheduled or ad hoc scripting on the VMware Infrastructure. ESXi RCLI is its own
command line where ESX server service console scripting would be made up of most
Linux utilities.2. ESXi Server’s service console (firewall)
The ESXi security profile configuration consists of a couple of services that you can either enable or not enable with inbound access. Here is a comparison between the two
 |
| Esx-i Security profile having 2 services only. |
 |
| VMware ESX Server (full) Security Profile |
3 Vmware ESXi Server has a " Yellow Service Console" Screen
Instead of the full ESX Server “service console” boot (which looks like a Linux server booting), ESXi has a tiny “Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)”. Unofficially, I like to call this the “yellow firmware console”. In this ESXi console, all that you can configure are some very basic ESXi server options such as the root user password, network settings, and a couple other items. In the graphic below, you can see why I call it “yellow”:
Because the service console has been removed from ESXi, the footprint in memory has been reduced to 32MB. In comparison, the full ESX Server on disk footprint is about 2GB.
Because the hypervisor is so small, the installation happens in about 10 minutes (or so) and the server boots up in 1-2 minutes. This is quite different from the full ESX server installation and boot, both of which are longer
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