VMware ESXi 3.5 - 8.0 Hypervisor Size Comparison
VMware's bare-metal hypervisor ESXi is in the market for 15 years now. During that time it has been continuously refined and new features like the Container Runtime in vSphere 7.0 have been added. In vSphere 8.0, a completely new ARM-based architecture has been introduced. In this article, I am going to have a look at how much the hypervisor footprint has been changed from ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 8.0.
- ESXi 3.5 - 46,01 MB
- ESXi 4.0 - 59,99 MB
- ESXi 4.1 - 85,19 MB
- ESXi 5.0 - 132,75 MB
- ESXi 5.1 - 125,85 MB
- ESXi 5.5 - 151,98 MB
- ESXi 6.0 - 154,90 MB
- ESXi 6.5 - 135,39 MB
- ESXi 6.7 - 129,51 MB
- ESXi 7.0 - 149,40 MB
- ESXi 8.0 - 226,62 MB