Basically, I had to test something on an ESXi upgrade procedure before putting it into production and I didn’t want to mess up my working environment.
\nThe following is done in an ESXi 5.5 SSH console:<\/p>\n
\r\ncd \/vmfs\/volumes\r\n# cd [your volume]\/[your machine name]\r\nvi [your machine name].vmx\r\n#make sure you have enough ram\r\n#find and replace: memSize = \"8192\" with something that feets your needs ( at least 2048 though )\r\n#find and replace or add: numvcpus = \"4\" and cpuid.coresPerSocket = \"2\" to something that meets your demands\r\n#set guestOS = \"vmkernel5\" here if you don't want to manually set it through the interface and you'll nest an ESXi 5 host\r\nmonitor.virtual_mmu = \"hardware\"\r\nmonitor.virtual_exec = \"hardware\"\r\ncpuid.1.ecx = \"---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- --H- ----\"\r\nhypervisor.cpuid.v0 = \"FALSE\"\r\nvhv.enable = \"TRUE\" \r\nsched.mem.maxmemctl = \"0\"\r\n:wq\r\n# search for your vm id\r\nvim-cmd \/vmsvc\/getallvms | grep \"[your machine name]\"\r\nvim-cmd \/vmsvc\/reload [id]\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\nAfter doing this go to the machine settings in the vSphere Client and set “Options” -> “General Options” -> “Guest Operating System” to “Other” -> “VMware ESXi 5.x”
\nAlso, be sure to have size your VM disk if you want machines in it .. AND at least 2 cores !<\/p>\n
Enjoy.<\/p>\n
P.S.: https:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/message\/2120826<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Basically, I had to test something on an ESXi upgrade procedure before putting it into production and I didn’t want to mess up my working environment. The following is done in an ESXi 5.5 SSH console: cd \/vmfs\/volumes # cd [your volume]\/[your machine name] vi [your machine name].vmx #make sure you have enough ram #find … Continue reading Nested ESXi Virtualization<\/span>