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You can also tell the difference between a local VM and the remote VM by looking at the Virtual Machine Details section and noting where the configuration file is saved. Then they will appear as normal VMs running in Workstation and you can power them on using the green play button. Note that if you want to open the uploaded virtual machines from Workstation, you need to right click on them and choose Open. You can now delete the local virtual machines if you like. Once it has been uploaded, you should see it listed when you click on the tab for the ESXi server you are connected to. Note that it can take a significant amount of time to upload the VM, especially if it is very large. Click Finish and the upload process will begin. It should tell you the amount of free space left on that datastore also. Click Next and then choose which Datastore you want to use for storing the new VM. To do this, again click on VM, then Manage and now click on Upload. You only need to do this if you are running the latest VMware Workstation 14 and have already upgraded the hardware compatibility to So I had to change it to either ESXi 6. Click Connect and you should see some basic info about the ESXi server at the top and a list of any virtual machines at the bottom.īefore we upload the virtual machine, we first need to change the hardware compatibility. A window will popup where you will need to enter the ESXi server hostname or IP address and the login info. To do this, just click on File and then Connect to Server. The first thing we will do is connect Workstation to the local ESXi server.
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