VMware Cloud on AWS Host Deep Dive: i3, i3en, i4i Comparison Guide
This is single page intended to collate every single feature of the current VMware Cloud on AWS hosts for easy comparison.
All of this data Is publicly available. I have just collated into a single page
| I3 | I3en | I4i | |
| CPU | |||
| Processor Name | Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 | Intel Xeon Platinum 8175 | Intel Xeon 8375c |
| No of Physical Cores | 36 | 48 | 64 |
| Hyperthreading | No | Yes | Yes |
| Base Clock | 2.3GHz | 2.5 Ghz | 2.9 GHz |
| Turbo Clock | N/A | 3.1 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| Processor Family | Broadwell | Skylake | Ice Lake |
| Custom Core Count | 8 16 36 | 8 16 24 30 36 48 | 8 16 24 30 36 48 64 |
| Memory | |||
| Capacity GiB | 512 | 768 | 1024 |
| Memory Speed | DDR4-2400 | DDR4-2666 | DDR4-3200 |
| Networking | |||
| Network Adaptor Speed Gb/s | 25 | 100 | 75 |
| Hardware Network Encryption | No | Yes | Yes |
| Storage | |||
| Physical Drives | 8×1900 | 8×7500 | 8×3570 |
| vSAN OSA Cache Disk | 2 | 4* | 2 |
| vSAN OSA Capacity Disk | 6 | 28* | 6 |
| vSAN Compression | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| vSAN Deduplication | Yes | No | No |
| vSAN OSA Support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| vSAN ESA Support | No | No | Yes |
*I3en is using NVMe namespace to split the 8 physical disks into 32 NVMe namespaces.
