LifeOfBrianOC and I recently had cause to build out some new lab infrastructure to host nested ESXi VMs. As part of that build we wanted to be able to deploy identical nested testbeds i.e multiple testbeds, each with their own set of nested hosts and supporting infrastructure, each of which would use the same VLAN... Continue Reading →
Nested Labs: Upgrading Nested ESXi Hosts
I use nested hosts for just about all of my testing, whether in my homelab or when kicking the tyres on something in my VMware corporate lab. One thing that used to frustrate me no end was that my VCF ESXi upgrades (especially from ESXi 6.7 to ESXi 7.0) would regularly fail. At first I... Continue Reading →
