If Virtzilla’s serious about multicloud, surely this gets real soon?
VMware has released another update to its hypervisor for the Arm architecture, without showing any signs it will soon be productized.
The virty giant first teased ESXi for Arm way back in 2018, and in 2020 delivered a “Fling” – Virtzilla-speak for solid but utterly unsupported code it makes available for testing and general merriment.
In the years since, the Fling has gained support for serious Arm server CPUs – such as Ampere’s Altra and Altra Max, and the HPE ProLiant RL300 that runs them. It runs on the Raspberry Pi, too, meaning millions of hobbyists can play with VMware’s core hypervisor tech.
But VMware has never signalled it plans to productize the Fling – even as key partner AWS emphasized its own Arm-powered Graviton CPUs, other hyperscale clouds adopt Ampere CPUs, and Arm itself claimed to have won five percent share of all cloudy CPUs.
