Virtualized ESXi Lab - Network configuration

[stuxdotnet]

Hello,

I have a Dell PowerEdge R710 running vSphere 6.5 Standard. I need two more vSphere for testing, and since I don't want to buy new hardware, I created them as a VM on my vSphere 6.5 host.

Now I want to create multiple VMs on the vSphere VMs (that is, the architecture looks like this: R710 -> Host vSphere -> VM-vSphere -> VM).

How do I configure the network so that I can access these VMs, because at the moment the VMs on the vSphere VM cannot access the NW where my computer and the two vSphere systems are located.

Or is there a much better setup for that?

[sjesse · Accepted solution]

I don't know what you mean by NW, but look at

https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/nested-virtualization

there are tons of articles that may help

[stuxdotnet]

Network and thanks.

[sjesse]

Try the nested appliances and make sure they are on vSwitch that has an uplink and port group that has internet/network access, it should be all that's needed.

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

https://www.altaro.com/vmware/vsphere-home-lab-networking/

ARomeo