ESXi: A Technology Embedded in Marketing Hype or Destined for Greatness?

This blog post compliments the Virtualization Review article ESXi: A Technology Embedded in Marketing Hype or Destined for Greatness?. The version of the article in print was shortened due to space constraints and because of this, lost some facts that supported my arguments. In particular the section on how small code-bases do not necessarily reduce problems is missing code examples that support the arguments. To that end I am including that section in this blog post with the original code examples.