Configuring vSphere 6.7 Nested Virtualization with Virtual vCenter and ESXi Servers

A walkthrough of the basic steps of creating a nested virtualization lab with vSphere 6.7. The example shown deploys a vCenter Server virtual appliance to a pre-existing vSphere 6.5 environment (vCenter). Then we create 2 virtual ESXi servers from scratch using ISO media, configure them, add them to vCenter, add shared storage, and create a VM.

[elmerdeloso]

@3:46 is what I was missing to allow the VMs within the nested ESXi VM to talk to the host ESXi server & the rest of the physical network. Thank you so much for this!

[diogogoncalves]

Hello,

Thank you for your video.

I installed a type 2 esxi on a type 1 esxi.

I can not recover ip on the virtual machine that is in my 2nd esxi ... strange

[essamhassin]

It's grate video, I plan to build a vmware lab by using nested ESXi and install it direct on one Server (without using Vmware Workstation) for three groups of students
Each group consists of 3 ESXI and 1 VCenter (that mean 9 ESXI and 3 VCenter).
My Question Is there any issue if I install more than 1 vcenter and if there is issue how can I do this plan to use 1 vcenter for every group?

[nuwandesilva]

Grate video. You deploy this on VMware workstation or Hardware servers?