If ESXi is a shark - it is swimming alone in its pool.
Workstation then is a piranha and you are swimming in the same pool.
The problem with Workstation nowadays is the updates of the host - the next update can result in a forced production pause.
If running WS 12 on a Win2008 R2 host would still be healthy I would have recommended that option.
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I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...
