VMware adds support for 80-core Ampere Altra chips to its experimental Arm hypervisor
The ‘we think this is mostly for SmartNICs’ stance is looking a little thinner Share Copy VMware has released an update of the mostly experimental cut of its flagship ESXi hypervisor for the Arm architecture, adding support for 80-core server processors and hinting that more server-makers have come aboard. Offered to the public as a technology preview under VMware’s program of releasing official but unsupported code as “Flings”, the hypervisor differs from the "Project Monterrey" effort that was aimed at running workloads on SmartNICs, network interface cards that pack an Ar...
Source: theregister.com