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I have an ESXi 5.5 Host with internal storage that I want to &nbsp;install VMware vSphere 5.5 essentials.<br />
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I have a 2nd ESXi 5.5 Host with 384GB RAM and access to a big SAN and that is where all the VMs will reside for now. &nbsp;Next year I will add another new host for more VMs.<br />
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On my ESXi 5.5 Host with internal storage I have installed Server2008R2 and then I have installed VMware vCenter Server Appliance and now I am looking for the rest of what I need to do to get everything ready
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I have an ESXi 5.5 Host with internal storage that I want to  install VMware vSphere 5.5 essentials.

I have a 2nd ESXi 5.5 Host with 384GB RAM and access to a big SAN and that is where all the VMs will reside for now.  Next year I will add another new host for more VMs.

On my ESXi 5.5 Host with internal storage I have installed Server2008R2 and then I have installed VMware vCenter Server Appliance and now I am looking for the rest of what I need to do to get everything ready

How to install vmware vSphere 5.5 essentials (there are 11 modules on download page with no guide)

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.