i have esxi free running and sometimes this server is so busy that certain vmwares on it can't be run usefully because of the low memory / cpu.
On the esxi most vmdk are stored on the HDD and some come from our NAS.
My question is if it's possible to temporarily run a Virtual machine stored on the ESxi, but with the resources from where VMWare Workstation is running (my workstation with intel i7 and 24gb of free RAM). So the Esxi only is used for datastorage instead of running the whole vmware.
And this needs to be done without converting the vmdk etc etc.
is this possible? Best would be that using vsphere client the Vmware is shutdown on the esxi. Workstation is started up and i can point to the internal datastorage of the esxi server and run the vmdk from it.