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vThinkBeyondVM
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Let me clarify your doubts:

The vSphere Client is the principal interface for administering vCenter Server and ESXi.

The vSphere Client user interface is configured based on the server to which it is connected:

When the server is a vCenter Server system, the vSphere Client displays all the options available to the vSphere environment, according to the licensing configuration and the user permissions.

When the server is an ESXi host, the vSphere Client displays only the options appropriate to single host management.

Hence you can use vSphere client to connect to ESXi host as well as vCenter server. In you case, you are using vSphere client to connect to individual ESXi host.

Yes, if you want to clone Virtual machine, easiest way is to install vCenter server & connect to vCenter server using vSphere client or web client (its new user interface). However, you need to have valid vCenter license.  Note that vCenter will give you lot of features to manage your virtual environment. Ex. Features such DRS, DPM , SDRS, SIOC, HA, cloning, snapshots, templates etc.  can only be enabled from vCenter. If you have vCenter server you can manage multiple ESXi host (Either through vSphere client or web client)

Other ways (PowerCLI as well as ESXi CLI) are specified by vNEX. 


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