Running ESXi on a Raspberry Pi: Installing VMware ESXi on Raspberry Pi 4 to run Linux virtual machines

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T. Fenton, P. KennedyRunning ESXi on a Raspberry Pihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7465-1_2

2. ESXi on Arm on Pi and the Post-virtualized Datacenter

Thomas Fenton¹   and Patrick Kennedy²

(1)

Ridgefield, WA, USA

(2)

Austin, TX, USA

 

In the first chapter, we showed how a multitiered application in the datacenter prior to virtualization required different physical servers, with each server running a single application (Figure 1-2). Once virtualization was introduced, however, that same datacenter could run the same multitiered applications using VMs, consolidating them from eight underutilized servers to three fully utilized servers (Figure 2-1).

In this chapter, ...