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Updated Nested ESXi Appliances for 7.0 Update 1d & 2a

05.17.2021 by William Lam // 5 Comments

I have just updated my Nested ESXi Virtual Appliance collection to include support for the latest ESXi 7.0 Update 1d and 7.0 Update 2a releases. This took a bit longer than usual due to a busy schedule but also due to some fixes and enhancements that I had been working on. For those interested, you can find the detailed change log below and these updates are only applicable for these two OVAs or newer going forward.

Downloads:

  • Nested ESXi Appliance 7.0 Update 1d
  • Nested ESXi Appliance 7.0 Update 2a

Changes

  • Fixed self-sign TLS certificate generation (Subject Alternative Name now matches the provided FQDN)
  • Updated NTP settings to use ESXCLI for configuration (previously updating ntp.conf)
  • Suppressed Core Dump warning (/UserVars/SuppressCoredumpWarning)
  • Updated ESXi installation VMDK from 4 to 12GB to support ESX-OS Data & VMFS Volume
  • Automatically configure ESX-OS Data & 4GB VMFS volume
  • Disabled Follow Hardware MAC by default (/Net/FollowHardwareMac)
  • Follow Hardware MAC can now be configured using OVF property guestinfo.followmac
  • Automatically recreate vmk0 interface to ensure unique MAC Address from vmnic0
  • Automatically configure vMotion traffic on vmk0

For previous Nested ESXi Appliance OVAs and/or the Nested ESXi Content Library, please take a look at http://vmwa.re/nestedesxi

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  • Using vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) to remediate Nested ESXi host with CPU on the host is not supported 
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  • Quick Tip - Adding a vTPM (Virtual Trusted Platform Module) to a Nested ESXi VM

Categories // ESXi, Nested Virtualization, vSphere 7.0 Tags // ESXi 7.0 Update 1d, ESXi 7.0 Update 2a, Nested ESXi

Comments

  1. Mamata Desai says

    05/17/2021 at 10:23 am

    Would you be able to blog on the process you use to create these images please? Would be very insightful!

    Reply
    • James Nathan Daggett says

      05/17/2021 at 11:01 am

      You should mention the known bug I'm suffering.. any USB-SD boot drives have a bug. I have Cisco-UCS.
      https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/83376

      Reply
  2. Raj says

    05/17/2021 at 10:34 am

    Thanks William
    Great Work

    Reply
    • Anders Mikkelsen says

      05/31/2021 at 6:35 am

      Thanks for sharing, makes my life much easier 🙂

      Deployment via vCentre or PowerCLI works, but the customization script "098-customization", doesn't seem to work when OVA is deployed via a vRA 8.4 cloud template.

      Hope you have a fix

      Reply
      • Anders Mikkelsen says

        06/02/2021 at 12:02 am

        Issue found, it's the true/false that vRA 8 Cloud Templates doesn't pass correctly under ovfProperties, and it the way vRA 8 adds the networks

        Reply

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