Please advice. I'm new to VMware

I need to get the hands on skills on VMware and want advice on the best way to do it. I was told to install vmware as the operating system. Please advise me in steps what I need to do to download vmware and install it on windows 7 or windows server 2008 R2?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Welcome to the community - you can not install ESXi (the name of the VMware software) directly on a WIndows operating system - you will need to install something like VMware Workstation that allows you to create the virtual machine and install ESXi in this VM.

Here is a link that shows how to do it- http://www.sysprobs.com/vmware-vsphere-4-esxi-4-windows-7-vmware-workstation-7-pc .

You can google for other links-

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