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Nested Virtualization Resources

10.04.2012 by William Lam // 7 Comments

Here is a consolidated page on all the articles that I have written about the Nested Virtualizatoin (nested ESXi, Hyper-V, etc) and all the goodies that are "Not Supported".

vSphere / vCloud 5.1

  • Having Difficulties Enabling Nested ESXi in vSphere 5.1?
  • How to Enable Nested ESXi & Other Hypervisors in vSphere 5.1
  • How to Enable Nested ESXi & Other Hypervisors in vCloud Director 5.1

vSphere / vCloud 5.0

  • How to Enable Support for Nested 64bit & Hyper-V VMs in vSphere 5
  • The Missing Piece In Creating Your Own Ghetto vSEL Cloud

Additional Info/Tips/Tricks/

  • Nested ESXi 5.1 Supports VMXNET3 Network Adapter Type
  • How to Configure Nested ESXi 5 to Support EVC Clusters
  • How to Enable Nested vFT (virtual Fault Tolerance) in vSphere 5
  • How to Install VMware VSA in Nested ESXi 5 Host Using the GUI
  • Cool Undocumented Features in vCloud Director 1.5
  • The Missing Piece In Creating Your Own Ghetto vSEL Cloud
  • Nested Virtualization APIs For vSphere & vCloud Director 5.1
  • How To Enable Nested ESXi Using VXLAN In vSphere & vCloud Director 
  • Will Intel’s VMCS Shadowing Feature Benefit VMware’s Nested Virtualization?
  • How to run Nested RHEV Hypervisor on ESXi? 
  • How to quickly setup and test VMware VSAN (Virtual SAN) using Nested ESXi
  • How to run Nested ESXi on top of a VSAN datastore? 
  • VMware Tools for Nested ESXi 
  • Why is Promiscuous Mode & Forged Transmits required for Nested ESXi?
  • How to properly clone a Nested ESXi VM?

More from my site

  • w00t! VMware Tools for Nested ESXi!
  • Having Difficulties Enabling Nested ESXi in vSphere 5.1?
  • How to Enable Nested ESXi & Other Hypervisors in vCloud Director 5.1
  • How to Enable Nested ESXi & Other Hypervisors in vSphere 5.1
  • Nested Virtualization APIs For vSphere & vCloud Director 5.1

Categories // Uncategorized Tags // amd-v, ept, esxi, esxi 5, esxi4, esxi4.1, esxi5.1, hyper-v, intel vt, nested, rvi, vhv, virtual hardware virtualization, vSphere, vSphere 4.0, vSphere 5.0, vSphere 5.1

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  1. How to properly clone a Nested ESXi VM? | virtuallyGhetto says:
    02/28/2014 at 4:09 pm

    […] often hear from users that they would like to be able to just clone from an existing Nested ESXi VM that has already been configured and just create additional Nested ESXi VM instances from that. […]

    Reply
  2. w00t! VMware Tools for Nested ESXi! | virtuallyGhetto says:
    02/28/2014 at 4:57 pm

    […] have been working with Nested ESXi since it original inception and this technology has greatly benefited me and the entire VMware […]

    Reply
  3. How to run Nested ESXi on top of a VSAN datastore? | virtuallyGhetto says:
    02/28/2014 at 4:57 pm

    […] an interesting article on my Twitter timeline regarding some issues when trying to install and run Nested ESXi on top of a VSAN datastore. Shortly after the ESXi installation begins, the following error message […]

    Reply
  4. How to quickly setup and test VMware VSAN (Virtual SAN) using Nested ESXi | virtuallyGhetto says:
    03/06/2014 at 6:52 pm

    […] the process of building a Nested ESXi VM with all the prerequisites that includes steps from here and here. I have pre-built a VSAN Nested ESXi VM template (217Kb) that you can just download and […]

    Reply
  5. Enable VMware Fault Tolerance in nested enviroments | vcloudnine.de says:
    03/17/2014 at 9:21 pm

    […] CPU section. If you are searching for more: virtuallyGhetto is an awesome source, especially for nested virtualization and everything around automation using various API/ SDK and CLI. Kudos to William Lam for the work […]

    Reply
  6. Emulating an SSD Virtual Disk in a VMware Environment | Virtualization and Cloud Computing says:
    01/30/2015 at 4:42 pm

    […] the process of building a Nested ESXi VM with all the prerequisites that includes steps from here and here. I have pre-built a VSAN Nested ESXi VM template (217Kb) that you can just download and […]

    Reply
  7. How To Enable Nested ESXi Using VXLAN In vSphere & vCloud Director | virtuallyGhetto says:
    07/28/2015 at 1:49 pm

    […] environment. I have written several articles in the past on configuring nested ESXi in a regular vSphere and vCloud Director environment, but with the use of a VXLAN backed network, there are a few […]

    Reply

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