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VMware vSphere Essentials at $600 (approx) is all you need.<br />
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Plus will not benefit you with a single server, and NO SAN! (shared storage!)
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VMware vSphere Essentials at $600 (approx) is all you need.

Plus will not benefit you with a single server, and NO SAN! (shared storage!)

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Thanks, Andrew. Will I be able to do the cloning with Essentials? i.e. make up one image, and then just copy it 6 times?
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Thanks, Andrew. Will I be able to do the cloning with Essentials? i.e. make up one image, and then just copy it 6 times?

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(As a bit of a preamble, the situation I am asking about is to deal with a very specific set of circumstances, and would take a couple of pages to explain. I am just looking for an answer to the question.)<br />
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I would like to setup a server that would have the capacity to run 8-10 VMs, each running Windows 7. This would be a dedicated, stand-alone server that would only serve this purpose. I would like the ability to manage all of the VMs from one console, and would like the ability to create new images (clones) on the fly.<br />
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Thinking about getting a two quad-core processors, lots of RAM, the usual stuff.<br />
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What version of VMware will I need to get? Essentials? Do I need to get Plus?
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(As a bit of a preamble, the situation I am asking about is to deal with a very specific set of circumstances, and would take a couple of pages to explain. I am just looking for an answer to the question.)

I would like to setup a server that would have the capacity to run 8-10 VMs, each running Windows 7. This would be a dedicated, stand-alone server that would only serve this purpose. I would like the ability to manage all of the VMs from one console, and would like the ability to create new images (clones) on the fly.

Thinking about getting a two quad-core processors, lots of RAM, the usual stuff.

What version of VMware will I need to get? Essentials? Do I need to get Plus?

Necessary VMWare version

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.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.