Still, I seriously doubt that 3i would be any faster or slower than the standard ESX version. The VMM is the same, and the only thing that differs is the boot medium and the Service Console.

Lars

Yes, cpu0 will be more available and there will be more memory available for the virtual machines. The Service Console was typically 268-800Mb, and I also can't see how the Service Console occupied a 2GB footprint, maybe except on the disk. There's no reason that the virtualization overhead in 3i should be any smaller. Having cpu0 available could only give you a high performance gain (40%?) if you only have a single cpu core in your system, but I guess running esx on a single cpu core is an unsupported config.

Lars