[CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

Hi All,

What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ?

As an amateur to VMware - I thought - great I can get VMplayer and ESX should be able to import my image... Wrong... I even went through the trouble of "converting" to VMWare workstation and thinking ESX could import that - Apparently still Wrong... I cannot for the life of me understand how one product family is so incompatible with itself. But that is another story.

I just want to be able to provide a pre-built image with CentOS 7 and my other programs on a bootable VMware image that is easily imported into any VMware platform - Workstation, ESX or other.

How is that accomplished ? Thanks for your thoughts and experience.

Jerry