The Advisers Group

VMware ESXi Server is an enterprise-level virtualization product offered by VMware, Inc. VMware call ESXi a bare metal hypervisor as it becomes the server OS. There is no need to load any other server operating system.

The base ESXi Server product is Free, yes Free. Support and added features are billable. Added features include high availability, load balancing, and consolidated backup.

VMware ESXi can be obtained in one of two ways.

1. It can come embedded in a new server. It is actually in a flash chip inside it is not installed on the hard drive.

2. You can download the ESXi installer from VMware.com