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 cards.
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.
Virtual SAN installation
For more information about VMware documentation for VSAN installation,
see the VMware Virtual SAN Production Information
Guide at www.dell.com/virtualizationsolutions.