HYPER-V and ESXI Kari - have you tried this

Hi there
has anybody especially @Kari tried creating an ESXI VM on HYPER-V and then attaching VM's to the Esxi VM.

I'd imagine if possible the response time would be quite good as Esxi is such a TINY OS.

Running esxi as a VM would also get round some of its pickier bits on hardware selection too.

I've had success with W2K3 server as a VM serving a number of VM's using W7 enterprise as a Host (for the W2K3 VM) -- time though to get rid of this - and looking for an easy way to serve a load of VM's without having to re-create them all. The version of W2K3 server I was using allows 64 bit guests so W10 VM's were working fine.

Cheers
jimbo

Kari said:

Interesting idea. Decided to test, will report back with results.

Thanks --love to see those

Cheers
jimbo

Hi there

@Kari

I'm having better luck running Esxi as a VM on VMWARE on W2K3 Host - have a spare machine to do this and a VL licence for W2K3 server - but the object of the exercise was to avoid the main HOST overhead. VM's connect also without problem but I/O goes BONKERS - even with an SSD. !!

I got a W7 and W10 VM to connect but even with SSD the HDD light stayed hard on -- running on a 64 GB Ram Hyperthreading CPU machine so no lack of hardware resources.

Watching the Footie now !!! France tonight - but Iceland doing great --pity last night Own goal against Hungary in last 5 mins !!! so 1-1 Grrrrrhh ! - but we still could qualify - last match against Austria next week. (One point on Wednesday will be enough !!!).

Cheers
jimbo

My understanding is that nested virtualization has only recently been added to Hyper-V, and I've only seen it in the context of running Hyper-V within Hyper-V. (ESX and to some extent VMWare Workstation have had a hidden way to gain partial nested virtualization for quite some time).

See Nested Virtualization

There's also a page here that has a lot of resources:

NESTED VIRTUALIZATION | virtuallyGhetto

The nesting is largely dependent upon the nested instance (in this case esxi) so there may be a special configuration you have to apply to make this work in Hyper-V.

Just found this:

Install a VMWare ESXi 6.0 Hypervisor in a Hyper-V VM | PowerShell, Programming and DevOps

Mystere said:

My understanding is that nested virtualization has only recently been added to Hyper-V, and I've only seen it in the context of running Hyper-V within Hyper-V. (ESX and to some extent VMWare Workstation have had a hidden way to gain partial nested virtualization for quite some time).

See Nested Virtualization

There's also a page here that has a lot of resources:

NESTED VIRTUALIZATION | virtuallyGhetto

The nesting is largely dependent upon the nested instance (in this case esxi) so there may be a special configuration you have to apply to make this work in Hyper-V.

Just found this:

Install a VMWare ESXi 6.0 Hypervisor in a Hyper-V VM | PowerShell, Programming and DevOps

Hi there

Thanks for the info -- I'll look at that esxi with your link

Cheers
jimbo