Recently I was looking to install VMWare components in my local network of things so that I could gain additional knowledge of how VMWare works. I have a local Synology DS920+ which can run virtual machines and I have about 18TB of space to play with so I thought this would be a good experiment. The tricky part is that VMWare’s ecosystem has a couple of different components to it. If you aren’t familiar with those components, it can be a dizzying to navigate.