Nested vSphere 6.5 Home Lab Configuration
Here are the details I used for my nested ESXi 6.5 deployment in my home lab. The OVA and it’s configuration is provided by William Lam from virtuallyghetto.com.
Host Configuration:
- Dell XPS 8700
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz
- 16GB of Memory (My next upgrade will be to bump my server to 32GB)
- 250GB and 500GB Samsung EVO SSDs for my all-flash VSAN implementation. (Need to add another 500-1TB SSD)
Virtual Appliance Configuration:
- ESXi 6.5 Appliance OVA provided by virtuallyGhetto
- Guest Type: ESXi 6.5
- Virtual Hardware 11
- 2 vCPU
- 6GB vMEM
- 2 x VMXNET vNIC
- 1 x PVSCSI Adapter
- 1 x 2GB HDD (ESXi Installation)
- 1 x 4GB SSD (for use w/VSAN, empty by default)
- 1 x 8GB SSD (for use w/VSAN, empty by default)
- VHV added
- dvFilter Mac Learn VMX params added
- disk.enableUUID VMX param added
- VSAN traffic tagged on vmk0
- Disabled VSAN device monitoring for home labs
- VMFS6 will be used if user selects to create VMFS volume