Vmware quick question

[Graham_13]

Ok I installed vmware esxi on my server I'm about to install 2012r2 on my server, can I just directly install it on the server or do I have to do something on the vsphere client first?

 

[ss202sl]

don't you want the 2012 to run as a VM? You'd want to create the VM, connect the 2012 ISO to the VM, and boot to the ISO to install 2012 on the VM.

 

[Solandri]

Yeah, I don't think you quite understand what ESXi is. It's a hypervisor - it takes the place of your host OS. VMWare Workstation is a virtualization program which installs on a system running Windows or Linux. VMWare ESXi is basically its own OS and virtualization program wrapped up in one.

So you install ESXi directly onto the server. Then you install VSphere Client onto a different computer, and use it to connect to the ESXi server. Then you can transfer install ISOs to the ESXi server and create and install virtual machines on it.