Select the first choice “Generation 1” and click Next Browse to the location in which the Virtual Machine will be stored.That’s pretty simple, you just need to create a 1st Gen Virtual Machine: Now we can create the Virtual Machine for our ESXi. Once the ISO is downloaded, you can check if the file exists in the current directory. This driver allows running ESXi as a VM under Microsoft Hyper-V Use net-tulip in order to load DECchip 21140 Ethernet driver inside the ISO.Use the –vft parameter to connect to the V-Front Online Depot.Use the –v60 parameter for ESXi 6.0 but you can use the -v65 parameter for ESXi 6.5 The script will download the ESXi 6.0 ISO from the VMware online depot and customize it by injecting drivers: Once the installation is done, you can run the customizer script: Wait a moment until the installation finishes. So in this article, I will install VMware.PowerCLI 10.300 via the following PowerShell command.

A few weeks ago, VMware published VMware PowerCLI on the PowerShell Gallery. Let’s start by downloading and installing PowerCLI. The only prerequisites to run these steps is that you must have a Hyper-V Host running Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10 with an Intel processor with VT-x and EPT technology.

Download and run the “Enable-NestedVM.ps1” script.

Mount the newly created ISO inside the Virtual Machine.

Use the customizer to download and rebuild the ESXi ISO.

Configure the adapter with Mac Spoofing enabled.

Create Hyper-V VM with a Legacy Network Adapter.

It is a PowerShell script that will simplify and automate the process of creating fully patched and customized ESXi installation ISOs using the VMware PowerCLI ImageBuilder module. It can be useful only in a testing environment because it is really not supported in production!īasically, to install ESXi in a Hyper-V Virtual Machine, below are the steps: So you also can run an ESXi inside a Hyper-V Virtual Machine. It means that you can run a VM inside a Virtual Machine. One of the new features with Windows Server 2016 is the Nested Virtualization.

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