--- title: "An in-depth look at VMware Cloud on AWS hosts" description: "This is single page intended to collate every single feature of the current VMware Cloud on AWS hosts for easy comparison." date: 2025-08-14T12:32:01+00:00 modified: 2026-06-01T21:59:06+00:00 author: James Kilby categories: - VMware - VMware Cloud on AWS - VCF - Homelab - Personal - Networking - Storage - Ansible - Automation - Docker - Traefik tags: - #VMware Cloud on AWS url: https://jameskilby.co.uk/2025/08/vmc-host-deepdive/ image: https://jameskilby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Picture-1-e1768509620339.png --- ![Picture 1 E1768509620339](https://jameskilby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Picture-1-e1768509620339.png) [VMware](https://jameskilby.co.uk/category/vmware/) | [VMware Cloud on AWS](https://jameskilby.co.uk/category/vmware/vmware-cloud-on-aws/) # An in-depth look at VMware Cloud on AWS hosts By[James](https://jameskilby.co.uk)August 14, 2025 · Updated June 1, 2026 • 📖1 min read(219 words) 📅 **Published:** August 14, 2025• **Updated:** June 01, 2026 This is a single page intended to collate every single feature of the current [VMware Cloud on AWS hosts](https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/cloud/vmware-cloud-on-aws/SaaS/operations-guide/managing-sddc-hosts-and-clusters/vmware-cloud-on-aws-host-types.html) for easy comparison. All of this data is publicly available. I have just collated it into a single page.. | **I3**. **metal**| **I3en**. **metal**| **I4i**. **metal** ---|---|---|--- **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 in Transit| 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. 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