Document on cloning is not correct?

Question

I'm viewing VMWare vSphere Client here and it tells to right click the virtual machine and hit clone

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but I cannot find that in VMWare vSphere Client

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What's wrong here everyone?

ps

I'm using version 5.

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score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 14 '12 at 03:26

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You appear to be directly connected to the ESXi host.

From your first image:

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answered Jun 14 '12 at 03:26

Shane Madden

THAT my friend was one SPECTACULAR way to answer. – SpacemanSpiff Jun 14 '12 at 03:30
@SpacemanSpiff I hadn't had good occasion for hand-drawn circles in a while! It looks pretty weak compared to the nice, clean ones in the question :) – Shane Madden Jun 14 '12 at 03:31
@ShaneMadden I use Screenpresso which is free and super cool to use – Nam G VU Jun 14 '12 at 06:03
@ShaneMadden I really don't get what `direct connected to vCenter Server`, please explain more. – Nam G VU Jun 14 '12 at 09:04
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@NamG.VU In order for the clone functionality to be available, you must be managing your ESXi host with a vCenter server, and you must be logged in with the vSphere client to the vCenter server - in your screenshot above, it appears that you've connected with your vSphere client directly to your ESXi host. That's causing the clone option to be unavailable. – Shane Madden Jun 14 '12 at 16:42
@ShaneMadden Pls update this to your anser so as to be accepted – Nam G VU Jun 16 '12 at 15:47
@NamG.VU What updating do you think it needs? – Shane Madden Jun 16 '12 at 18:38

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