ESXi: origin of the ESX and GSX names
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/10
Not sure how I bumped into the below info, as it was in one of the open tabs of a VM that I had not accessed for a long time.
Tracing back, the links can be found via Wikipedia.
Here is the post content from the 2005 thread [Archive.is] Wayback “Abbreviation ESX”:
VMware: Origin of ESX and GSX names
in response to: kimono
ESX = Elastic or Electric Sky
GSX = Ground Sky
early days west coast cali hippy advertising thinking from the boys in the states. They dont mean’t anything and the X was added for acromyn
Related:
- VMware Server – Wikipedia
VMware Server (formerly VMware GSX Server) is a discontinued free-of-charge virtualization-software server suite developed and supplied by VMware, Inc.
- [Archive.is] What does ESX stand for? – VMFAQ.com / Knowledgebase
- [Wayback] History of VMware » Welcome to vSphere-land!
2001
- ESX 1.0 (Elastic Sky X) & GSX 1.0 (Ground Storm X) released
- Workstation 3.0 released
- [Wayback] VMware ESX Server – Wikipedia
The name ESX originated as an abbreviation of Elastic Sky X.
–jeroen
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