I am really excited
for the upcoming product from VMware. In my opinion, this is a good time to
make a final decision on ESX vs. ESXi. For current VI3 environments, ESXi has
most of the functionality of ESX and all of the licensed features are
available. This KnowledgeBase article has a good breakdown of the differences
as they exist today. For anything that you can’t do on ESXi directly, chances
are you can do it either via the Remote Command Line or VI Toolkit.
