Installing VMware ESXi on AMD Ryzen Threadripper

In the IT industry we use VMware vSphere (ESXi) a lot and virtualization is a core part of our daily lives. Threadripper shares much of the same architecture as AMD EPYC cpu’s so we are going to give ESXi 6.5u1 on Threadripper. This setup may actually be very beneficial for some workloads such as Graphics workstations on VDI that tend to run off a single thread and require more raw clock-speed.

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