I ordered 2 3PAR SANs, found some older Cisco 9124′s from a great vendor of ours, ordered 2 Arista 7050 10G switches, all of this for this particular reason: nested virtualization! My goal was to provide everyone of our engineers their own labs to test, to launch VDI’s, all of it! All I can say is, it’s going great! I run, what I call the infrastructure side off of a 3PAR SAN and fiber channel. I create a datastore for everyone and put their nested ESX stuff inside of that. Then, I use 3PAR’s iSCSI stuff to connect to that same datastore from the nested ESX host to put all of the nested Windows machines in it and it is absolutely stellar. The performance I am getting is nice!
Finding this nested tools piece shows me that VMware is taking this seriously and providing tools like this, for people like us, is amazing! Thanks to everyone for all you are doing, you are providing great jobs for people and for deep thinkers like me a way to dig deeper into providing my customers new ways to virtualize and develop more I.P.!
Please keep developing tools like this for nesting! Don’t stop, we appreciate it!
