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Dave M
Asked: 2019-04-05 15:19:40 +0800 CST

Nested Hypervisor - Hyper-V 2016 inside ESXi 6.5

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I have a VMware ESXi 6.5 running on Dell Precision Rack 7910 Intel Xeon CPU E5-2643 v3 @ 3.40GHZ

I'm planning to nest install Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 Standalone (free version). How do I go about checking compatibility for this nested hypervisor setup?

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  1. Best Answer

    As for getting the nested Hyper-V guests to connect to the external network, you probably need to enable Promiscuous Mode on the ESXi vSwitch, and additionally you may need to enable MAC Address Spoofing on the network adapter of the Hyper-V guest. Images below:

    1. ESXi vSwitch:

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    1. Hyper-V guest network adapter:

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