Comments on: What are you doing with nested virtualization? http://www.vcritical.com/2012/02/what-are-you-doing-with-nested-virtualization/ Informed Virtualization Criticism Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:44:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Navin R. Thadani http://www.vcritical.com/2012/02/what-are-you-doing-with-nested-virtualization/#comment-18122 Navin R. Thadani Sun, 03 Mar 2013 07:22:31 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=4075#comment-18122 Eric … Its been a while! Hope all is well. This post is closely related to my new gig. Its called Ravello Systems http://www.ravellosystems.com. We have developed some technology that we are very proud of and are offering a completely free beta. Its essentially a high performance nested hypervisor (we call it HVX) along with an IO overlay (SDN). It allows you to take a multi-VM application running on VMware (or KVM) in a datacenter and run it unmodified on AWS/Rackspace/HP Cloud – on both PV and HVM VMs. So you can simple upload your vmdk/vmx and deploy. Thats it. (and its offered as a SaaS).

Any of your readers willing to give it a shot and provide some feedback?

]]> By: Eric Gray http://www.vcritical.com/2012/02/what-are-you-doing-with-nested-virtualization/#comment-13815 Eric Gray Tue, 22 May 2012 03:06:57 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=4075#comment-13815 Whoa, that is amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Eric

]]> By: Doug Youd http://www.vcritical.com/2012/02/what-are-you-doing-with-nested-virtualization/#comment-13813 Doug Youd Mon, 21 May 2012 12:38:29 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=4075#comment-13813 Here’s the link to the article on what I’ve used it for…
http://blog.cnidus.net/2012/05/20/multi-tenant-veeam-replication-target/

]]> By: Doug Youd http://www.vcritical.com/2012/02/what-are-you-doing-with-nested-virtualization/#comment-13807 Doug Youd Sun, 20 May 2012 06:21:56 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=4075#comment-13807 I’m using nested ESXi as a Replication Target for Veeam. Effectively this gets around the single-tenant nature of Veeam.

It forms part of a Multi-Tenant DRaaS offering: Replication from a customer’s on-premise VMware infrastructure to ‘the cloud’ aka vmware cloud provider….

Putting together a blog post about it currently if anyone’s interested.

]]> By: Hugo http://www.vcritical.com/2012/02/what-are-you-doing-with-nested-virtualization/#comment-13745 Hugo Wed, 02 May 2012 03:13:33 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=4075#comment-13745 I use it to run Openstack, Cloudstack clusters with Nexenta VMs for Storage and running XCP and Xenserver as nested Hypervisors. Also have tried Hyper-V as nested Hypervisor.

]]> By: Bjørn http://www.vcritical.com/2012/02/what-are-you-doing-with-nested-virtualization/#comment-13696 Bjørn Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:39:10 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=4075#comment-13696 I use it for demonstrations when teaching VMware courses. I run a lot of different nested labs in VMware workstation 8.
Using nested technology I am able to demonstrate all vSphere functions on my laptop. Including autodeploy and the Vsphere Storage Appliance.
I also teach Microsoft Hyper-V courses and have been able to run the entire Hyper-V course on my laptop (it normally requires two physical servers).

]]> By: Greg Stuart http://www.vcritical.com/2012/02/what-are-you-doing-with-nested-virtualization/#comment-13558 Greg Stuart Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:13:49 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=4075#comment-13558 I use nested virtualization for VCP5 exam prep, and also to tinker with some of the newer features in vSphere5. What I like most is that it doesn’t take up any more space, power or cooling in my home. My PC has 16GB RAM, working on upgrading it to 32GB, so that I can build a nice little nested lab.

]]> By: LH http://www.vcritical.com/2012/02/what-are-you-doing-with-nested-virtualization/#comment-13549 LH Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:40:27 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=4075#comment-13549 What made me use this was VMware View inability to use the same cluster(same vCenter) with multiple domains that can not have a trust between them. View will need to support ADFS to make it a good DaaS product.

]]> By: Eric Gray http://www.vcritical.com/2012/02/what-are-you-doing-with-nested-virtualization/#comment-13548 Eric Gray Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:06:05 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=4075#comment-13548 Thanks for clarifying. What drove the nested use case?

]]> By: LH http://www.vcritical.com/2012/02/what-are-you-doing-with-nested-virtualization/#comment-13547 LH Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:49:22 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=4075#comment-13547 On a side note: This was not a large environment – 50 VM’s max at that time :)

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