NO, Esxi is bare metal hypervisor (Virtual layer) which sits directly on hardware where as VM workstation needs any operating system to work. Hence performance of ESXi will be better than workstation. Hence all the production environment usage ESXi.

We are using vmware for server virtualization from almost 5 years and found no issues and compatible with all OS ...If server virtualization is the goal , I feel vmware is the great product to look into it.It is fully matured For VDI, we have evaluated vmware view and…