CTO Advisor 099: ESXi on ARM

By Keith TownsendPublished On: January 21, 2019

One of the advantages of Keith and Mark working for VMware is the ability to get guest working on world-class software. Today’s guest is Andrei Warkentin, Arm Enablement Architect at VMware. Andrei is helping to lead the development of VMware’s flagship product ESXi on ARM. VMware is in the early stages of finding product fit for ESXi on ARM. As such, this podcast episode captures some of the earliest thoughts on the effort. One burning question of why did the team port ESXi to the Raspberry PI when the device is too small to run a VM gets an answer.

Keith and Mark brainstorm on use cases for ESXi on the ARM. Andrei discusses why ESXi on ARM is about the future and not about consolidation of VM’s on ARM.