Vshpere Installation ?

[nourhene]

Hey guys ,

I was wondering if installing vshpere must be on a formated pc , or can I just install it on my pc with my existing operating system ?

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

ESXi is a bare metal Hypervisor which installs directly on the hardware. It's designed for server hardware, so you may run into issues when trying to install it on PC hardware (e.g. incompatible NICs, ...). If you just want to evaluate/try ESXi you can easily install it as a virtual machine in e.g. VMware Workstation, provided the host meets the Installation Requirements

André

[nourhene]

So what you're saying (and correct me if I'm wrong) is that we could install it without formating but in order to avoid problems it's preferable to install it on a formated pc ?

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

Not really, ESXi is an operating system which - if you run the installation on the physical system - will partition and format the installation disk as needed,  deleting all previously existing partitions!

Installing ESXi as a virtual machine is an option, if you want keep the existing operating system and only want to try/evaluate ESXi.

André