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Install Vmware Infrastructure client and connect to your VMware ESX server.<br />
You can probably use your browser to connect to the server IP (or hostname) and download the client from that website.<br />
In the client it basically shows itself how to create a new VM and start or shut it down.
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Install Vmware Infrastructure client and connect to your VMware ESX server.
You can probably use your browser to connect to the server IP (or hostname) and download the client from that website.
In the client it basically shows itself how to create a new VM and start or shut it down.

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VMWare has a web based help product called VMWare Go. &nbsp;It will walk you through a myriad of steps in configuring and setting up your hosts and VMs.<br />
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<a href="https://go.vmware.com/" rel="ugc nofollow">https://go.vmware.com/</a>
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VMWare has a web based help product called VMWare Go.  It will walk you through a myriad of steps in configuring and setting up your hosts and VMs.

https://go.vmware.com/ [https://go.vmware.com/]

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Hi Marinertek, &nbsp;Tks for the info. &nbsp;Quick question, do i need to install a particular version of Linux for this to work (i.e. Redhat, ubuntu, etc...)? &nbsp;I am new to the Linux world and need to figure this out. &nbsp;A client i am supporting has an ESX Linux.
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Hi Marinertek,  Tks for the info.  Quick question, do i need to install a particular version of Linux for this to work (i.e. Redhat, ubuntu, etc...)?  I am new to the Linux world and need to figure this out.  A client i am supporting has an ESX Linux.

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Hey stevedion - esx is a bare-metal hypervisor so almost any OS can be installed on top. To manage esx you need the vmware client - it's windows only. To manage their linux virtual machine you could simply use ssh to the vm like any other server
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Hey stevedion - esx is a bare-metal hypervisor so almost any OS can be installed on top. To manage esx you need the vmware client - it's windows only. To manage their linux virtual machine you could simply use ssh to the vm like any other server

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Hi, I am a newbie to ESX 4, never worked with ESX before (linux) and i need to know the basics to managing (starting, shutting down, etc..). &nbsp;Anyone can help me?
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Hi, I am a newbie to ESX 4, never worked with ESX before (linux) and i need to know the basics to managing (starting, shutting down, etc..).  Anyone can help me?

ESX 4 Basics

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.