I understand. And, you are accurate.
How does Apple know I'm not using a pair of Mac Pro's and bootcamp as a VMware server??? Which, I have acutally done before 
Seriously though, migrating my ESXi servers to Mac Pro hardware is an option, if I can move my existing OS 10.6 Server VM's into ESXi!
-brian
How does Apple know I'm not using a pair of Mac Pro's and bootcamp as a VMware server??? Which, I have acutally done before
They don't, but see the next response....
Seriously though, migrating my ESXi servers to Mac Pro hardware is an option, if I can move my existing OS 10.6 Server VM's into ESXi!VMware does not currently support OSX Server as a guest on an ESX(i) host because VMware does not support ESX(i) on Apple hardware.
While the wording of the EULA appears to allow you to run a OSX Server as a VMware Server, Workstastion, Player or ESX(i) guest so long as it's running on Apple hardware, at the moment, VMware's non-Mac products do not have verification feature to check for Apple hosts. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) So although you might be able to get it to work, VMware does not support it. (And realizing the difference between "it works" and "it's supported".) How hard it is to implement such a verification, I do not know and VMware tends not to comment on future features. So we don't know if VMware will ever support Apple hardware for ESX(i) hosts. (And also, whether to support Workstation/Player in Boot Camp to run OSX Server guests.) Reports of success with the non-server versions of OSX infer that it's should be possible to run OSX Server on non-Apple machines. But being unsupported, only you can decide if you're willing to do that, especially if these are production machines.
