The first issue is that you will get a duplicated MAC Address of the VMkernel interface(s) because the Nested ESXi configuration is exactly the same.You will get a brand new Virtual Machine that will have a unique MoRef ID, InstanceUUID, BIOS UUID and MAC Addresses for each of the virtual network adapters which you can see an example of this from the screenshot below.Įverything from outside of the guest OS looks great as we would expect but there is actually two issues from within ESXi that you may not be aware of. Please refer to the following two VMware KB articles for more information on this topic and įirst off, cloning of a Nested ESXi VM is possible and you can already do this today. UPDATE (07/01/21) - As of ESXi 7.0 Update 2, cloning an ESXi boot volume (Nested or Physical) is no longer safe and can lead to data corruption. However, I can see why this would be useful for anyone that does not have an automated deployment or just want to quickly deploy additional Nested ESXi instances by just cloning from an existing image and then manually change the networking configuration afterwards. For me personally, I do not have a use case for this since I just deploy additional ESXi instances using an automated Kickstart deployment. Cheers, Chris.I often hear from users that they would like to be able to just clone from an existing Nested ESXi VM that has already been configured and just create additional Nested ESXi VM instances from that. It's ESXI v6.5 so there is some encryption support but we areĬurrently using the free version and the tutorials looked fairlyĬomplicated and aimed at a more professional environment.Īny alternative suggestions are welcome.Is Veracrypt viable in VM - I'm new to using it in a virtualĮnvironment so I'm unsure of potential issues in the longer term.Am I right in assuming ESXI can't see the TPM.Typing in password at boot-up isn't an issue for us as it's a dev.
My primary concern is ensuring if disks are disposed of, perhaps.Encrypted Windows machines (although we could also be using Linux).I tried encrypting the VM with Bitlocker but it couldn't see the TPM. For our dev enviromnment it will be fine. Hi we're devs playing around with ESXI on some old R710s.
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