VMware ESX Scale Pushed Up And Out By User Demands

February 3, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan

After a decade of expanding the various capacities of its server virtualization hypervisor, ESXi, and the virtual machines that run on it, you might think that VMware was pretty much done with boosting these two key components of its virtualization wares. But, as it turns out, customers keep hitting the upper limits and they are pushing the VMware’s coders to scale the software.

With over 500,000 customers and more than 45 million virtual machines in the datacenters of the world running on top of its software, VMware has to meet a very diverse set of customer needs. For a long …