Comments on: Nested VMWare ESXi https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/01/12/nested-vmware-esxi/ Fun with Virtualization Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:22:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/01/12/nested-vmware-esxi/comment-page-1/#comment-177962 Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:22:28 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6714#comment-177962 In reply to DOS.

I guess it leaves space for some enterprising person to use the API and make their own FAT client. Maybe using something to proxy the traffic in a more low traffic effective manner?

then again I don’t have time, I have to talk to old shitty firewalls.

]]> By: DOS https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/01/12/nested-vmware-esxi/comment-page-1/#comment-177957 Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:05:24 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6714#comment-177957 In reply to Darkstar.

> with 6.5 the classical client will not be included

I hope they have a HTML 5 console viewer now, then, because having to install a browser plugin for console viewing, plus another plugin for .ovf deployment is a pain! Oh well, I guess we’ll learn to live with whatever VMware forces us to do.

]]> By: Darkstar https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/01/12/nested-vmware-esxi/comment-page-1/#comment-177466 Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:57:37 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=6714#comment-177466 Yeah, that’s a really cool feature we’ve been using for some time in our test/demo datacenters now. The nested ESX can even be newer (to a certain degree, I guess?) so you can test ESX 6.5 before switching your whole datacenter to it.

If you want to test with some more ESX versions feel free to contact me, I have archived versions of almost every ESX and vCenter install ISO going back to the GSX days 😉

You can also add your local “Administrators” group to the SSO config so that you can log in with your usual windows credentials.

And as sad as it is, you should really get used to the web client some more, as with 6.5 the classical client will not be included and won’t work anymore. Yeah, the web client is still kinda slow and clunky but now there’s no way around it (and it *has* gotten a ton better in the last few years… no comparison to the one in 5.5)

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