8 engineers on Hacker News describe using VMware ESXi first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We run a lot of ESXi with vSphere (part of overall VCF solution). It works very well.”
endorse · production · firesteelrain · 2026-09-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a VMware ESXi box at home that I use to run a Windows VM with a video card passed through.”
endorse · personal · jleight · 2015-07-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“now with these changes at VMWare, we REALLY like that decision.”
regret · production · Spyplane · 2011-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use vmware 6.7 and 7 extensively for small business along with Veeam”
neutral · production · schlauerfox · 2023-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a 2013 i7 CPU with 32 GiB RAM running LTSP over ESXi was more than enough for intensive use of 5 thin clients.”
neutral · production · 3 yr · snadal · 2016-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run and support macOS VMs on ESXi”
neutral · production · awalton · 2016-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“And have like 6 vsphere esxi nodes.”
neutral · production · merb · 2015-04-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“used to use ESXi on the racks back then, for Windows + Linux”
neutral · production · 72deluxe · 2014-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?