Add 2 ESX hosts to one physical server

[GE_Aviation_UK]

Hi - Anyone have any experience of adding 2 ESX hosts to one physical server and let me know the advantages of this setup and do vmware recommend it? Thanks Rick

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[vmroyale]

Hello.

Are you talking about using nested virtualization? What are you ultimately trying to accomplish here and will it be used for testing or production?

Good Luck!

[aravinds3107]

You mean running the whitebox setup for learning purpose..

Explan what is the exact requirement..

[GE_Aviation_UK]

Aravinds3107, I believe we are talking about a production setup here not something for training purposes. I have had no responses yet that suggest a good reason for this kind of setup - I will try and contact someone from team that suggested this, If I find out anything useful I will post it up here - thanks.

[a_p_]

... 2 ESX hosts to one physical server ...

Besides doing this is definitely not a supported setup, I don't see a technical reason for it anyway. In addition to this, trying to run a second installation of ESXi on a different disk on the host would most likely end up in an error message that existing installation has been found.

André

[Nikhil_Patwa]

Hi,

The second ESXi install though on a separate disk or partition will not be installed as the system will detect that one instance of ESXi is already installed in the system.

Why do you require 2 instances of ESXi on same physical box?

Regards,

Nikhil