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The VMware Edge Compute Stack provides a consistent edge platform that enables customers to build, run, manage, connect, and protect their retail workloads at near and far edge, while leveraging consistent infrastructure and operations across their data centers and cloud. VMware Edge Compute Stack is a purpose-built, integrated stack for small-scale VM and container compute, with edge HCI. VMware’s edge-optimized stack leverages their ESXi hypervisor as an abstraction layer that is validated to run on Dell hardware. It provides virtual access to compute and other resources to workloads from a single management plane. The solution leverages vSphere, vSAN, and Tanzu Standard (Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Tanzu Mission Control).