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Quick Tip - Adding a vTPM (Virtual Trusted Platform Module) to a Nested ESXi VM

05.13.2022 by William Lam // 1 Comment

I had an interesting question this morning asking whether it was possible to add a vTPM (Virtual Trusted Platform Module) to a Nested ESXi VM? The user was interested in testing a particular scenario with the new vSphere Trust Authority feature that was introduced in the vSphere 7.0. I personally had not done much with vTPM and I had assumed it should just work as long as you have a physical TPM chip in the underlying hardware and you have setup either a Standard or Native Key Provider within your vCenter Server.

The user observed that adding a vTPM to a Windows VM was possible using the vSphere UI but when attempting to perform the same operation on a Nested ESXi VM, the option to add vTPM device was not available. After spending ~30 minutes asking around for hardware that had a physical TPM, I remember that my Quartz Canyon NUC (NUC 9 Pro) is a Xeon based system and it has TPM 2.0 chip. I was able to take a closer look and quickly found the solution was very pretty straight forward!

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Categories // ESXi, Nested Virtualization, vSphere Tags // Nested ESXi, TPM, vTPM

Updates to Nested ESXi Virtual Appliance for vSphere 7.0 Update 3

10.05.2021 by William Lam // 13 Comments

✔️Corrected vSphere 7.0 Update 3 Release Note URLs

🔸vCenter:https://t.co/pQxSj5ltxk

🔹ESXihttps://t.co/qrKrtmo87c https://t.co/oYMMWVWmWy

— William Lam (@lamw) October 5, 2021

vSphere 7.0 Update 3 officially GA'ed this morning and I am happy to share a quick that my Nested ESXi Virtual Appliance (OVA and Content Library) has also been updated to support the latest release. In addition, I have also published an update to the ESXi 7.0 Update 2a Virtual Appliance as there was an issue that prevented it from working with the latest VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x release.

Nested ESXi OVA:

  • ESXi 7.0 Update 2a Virtual Appliance
  • ESXi 7.0 Update 3 Virtual Appliance

Nested ESXi Content Library:

  • https://download3.vmware.com/software/vmw-tools/lib.json

For prior ESXi versions, you can check out http://vmwa.re/nestedesxi

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Categories // Automation, ESXi, Nested Virtualization, vSphere 7.0 Tags // Nested ESXi, nested virtualization, vSphere 7.0 Update 2a, vSphere 7.0 Update 3

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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William Lam is a Senior Staff Solution Architect working in the VMware Cloud team within the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware. He focuses on Cloud Native technologies, Automation, Integration and Operation for the VMware Cloud based Software Defined Datacenters (SDDC)

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