What is VMWare ESXi

VMWare is a well-known virtual machine software which is useful for those who want to try Linux in Windows environment.

There are also a product of VMWare named VMWare ESXi less known compared to VMWare professional. How exactly do they differ from each other? I will explain it below.

VMWare professional or VMWare player(the free edition with fewer functions) are a software supported by main systems such as Windows, macOS and Android and is software-level virtual while the VMware ESXi just runs on the hardware, which is hardware-level virtual.