Even if your hardware is not listed in vmware official hcl, it might still work fine
You can check your system in whitebox list such as http://www.vm-help.com//es
There are other methods to clone vm in vmware server/esxi, should no be an issue if you decide to use either one, let me know if you are interested
And fyi, esxi is not only better than vmware server, in fact it is actually better than esx if compared directly.
Lot of people think that esxi is a handicapped version of esx, the truth is it is not, it is actually the real thing and far better than esx in terms of performance, with the proper license, esxi can do anything as esx would, the reason it is better than esx is becoz, it has no service console(the linux thingy) running in the background, this means less overhead, nothing to be processed by the cpu just for this, but ofcoz without the service console, the way we do things like patching/updating(rarely in esxi), installing hardware agents or specific tool that you normally can install on normal esx is going to be different
By the way, you have the option to install esxi on specific drive during installation process but caution that all data will be wiped out clean
So if you have 2 drives, you can install on drive 2 so data will not be touched in drive 1
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by: za_mkhPosted on 2009-10-28 at 13:43:05ID: 25688091
Even with free ESXi you will not get the option to 'natively' create clones of existing virtual machines. You need vCenter for that. ESXi is the better platform as it will allow you to squeeze more performance out of the same hardware.
To see if your hardware is compatible, look at the vmware HCL http://www.vmware.com/go/h
With ESXi is installed it will obviously overwrite your Windows 2008 host but I guess you know that.
Another option to create clones regardless of platform is to use the free vmware converter. So you can use the converter to create clones ...