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More On The Embedded ESX Lite

Wednesday, 04 July 2007 by Michel Roth

Remember I blogged about ESX Lite (ESX Server shrunk down to a couple hundred of MBs and embedded directly onto the motherboard on a chip) earlier? Well SearchServerVirtualization (that had the original scoop) has some more details on this special version of ESX and the primary hardware vendor they seem to be teaming up with, Dell.

It seems that Dell is well on their way in developing a line of servers aimed at supporting this new version of ESX. It is named VESO and will be available in the second half of this year, and will have extended memory and I/O capabilities, simplified iSCSI boot functionality, physical-to-virtual (P2V) migration services, and an embedded hypervisor, most likely ESX Lite. The new line of servers is rumored to have an embedded hypervisor (ESX lite), more than average RAM slots, and faster bus and PCI speeds.

The concepts and technology related to this matter are being developed in a project called "Project Hybrid". Dell promised to shed some more detail on this in the second half of this year. "Project Hybrid" is described as simplifying much of the complexity that IT managers face every dayIT infrastructure, power and space requirements, consolidation, software complexity and systems management. Read the full story here.