Intel workload accelerator vs intel Xeon phi

[shadowqueenvideogameservices]

I’m a noob to advanced level server hardware beyond the server computer drives cpu ram and so on.

So what is the difference between this

HP 800gb NVMe Mu Hh/hl PCIe Workload Accelerator / Intel DC P3600 SSD


And a Xeon phi coprocessor???
What are the two used for?
Would either be good for VMware esxi 6.5 and game hosting????

 

[k1114]

A workload accelerator is a pcie ssd. Xeon phi is like a pcie cpu. It's x86 cores but it's more cores than a normal cpu. I doubt you'd need a ssd for game hosting. And xeon phi won't be used unless you write the software for it so I don't think you would use that.

 

[kanewolf]

That P3600 is a PCIe SSD with high write endurance. A Xeon PHI is a coprocessor card with additional x86 cores.
I don't know if VMWare will utilize the cores on a PHI. The SSD could be used for image or VM storage.