{"id":10373,"date":"2010-02-09T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10373"},"modified":"2010-02-09T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:42:00","slug":"run-esx-in-vmware-workstation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10373","title":{"rendered":"Run ESX In VMware Workstation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m looking at maybe doing some VMware labs with VMM at home in the future.&#160; My worry was hardware.&#160; We know we can run Hyper-V on just about any machine (the h\/w requirements <em>are<\/em> pretty basic).&#160; It runs nicely on my Dell Latitude E6500.&#160; But ESXi and ESX have a pretty limited HCL and my old white boxes probably don\u2019t fall into it.&#160; I don\u2019t want to waste money on PC\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>So I did a little searching and it seems like there is a solution.&#160; You can run ESX and ESXi in VMware Workstation.&#160; You can get a trial of Workstation for any temporary lab work and run VMware in there.&#160; Add another VM and you can run the VMware management.<\/p>\n<p>All you need do now is point your lab VMM server at them and take control.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:dbacdfbb-91f7-43ff-bcee-e664a09e9718\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMM\" rel=\"tag\">VMM<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMware\" rel=\"tag\">VMware<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m looking at maybe doing some VMware labs with VMM at home in the future.&#160; My worry was hardware.&#160; We know we can run Hyper-V on just about any machine (the h\/w requirements are pretty basic).&#160; It runs nicely on my Dell Latitude E6500.&#160; But ESXi and ESX have a pretty limited HCL and my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10373\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Run ESX In VMware Workstation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[196,103],"class_list":["post-10373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-vmm","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}