paul williams
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Accessing fresh install of ESXi
Sorry basic question. Vsphere knowledge is limited.
Normally, I use vpshere client to connect to our existing Vcenter server.
Got a test where someone is coming along with a clean install ESXi host.
Questions are:-
1. Can I just RDP in to this machine to get access to Vsphere? Or is it more complicated than this?
2. Once on, I need to import VMs from USB drive. Can I just plug in?
Normally, I use vpshere client to connect to our existing Vcenter server.
Got a test where someone is coming along with a clean install ESXi host.
Questions are:-
1. Can I just RDP in to this machine to get access to Vsphere? Or is it more complicated than this?
2. Once on, I need to import VMs from USB drive. Can I just plug in?
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NO requirement for vCenter Server, for a single ESXi server, it's only used for management, and OTT for a single ESXi server.
Yes, that will work fine.
Yes, that will work fine.
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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.
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I guess plan would be to install vsphere client on the windows 2008 server so I can access ESXi (do I need a vcenter server also?). Then I can copy the VMs from USB onto windows 2008 server and import them?