Does anyone know if it is possible to setup a vSphere lab if all I have is the ESXi 5 host?
Scenario: I have have downloaded and installed ESXi 5.1 in order to evaluate. The host is setup and can be seen from vSphere 4 client; but obviously I can't access it or use it through my existing vCenter 4 implementation (or can I?). All of the servers that I have available for testing only support 32 bit OS so I cant put WIndows 2008 64 bit on them to install vCenter 5 and evaluate.
Question: Is it posible to install and run the vCenter server on the ESXi host that I already have set up, or do I have to have at least two 64 bit machines jsut to evalute the software? (one for host and one for vCenter Server)
Any help answers to clarify this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advnce