
Sounds like an admin/security nightmare
Sounds like adding massive complexity and security challenges to your VMWare ecosystem for some marginal benefits of some process offload.
Despite how it’s written, ‘running VMWare on a SmartNIC’ is hugely overstating what it will actually do - some minor process offload and some micro-containerisation is all these smartNIC’s processing engines will be able to do - when they are not NICing.
Solution to a question no-one is asking.