Steps to create nested ESXI server on a physical ESXI

 

Follow steps:

1.Create a New Virtual Machine selecting:

   Guest OS Family: Others

   Guest OS version: VMware ESXi 6.5 and later

2.On the Hardware "enable hardware assisted virtualization "for CPU:

3.Provide Memory(12GB) and Hard disk (10GB) and complete it.

4.Power On the Virtual machine and from CD/DVD attach "VMvisor installation ISO" file

5.Then do "alt+ctrl+delete" 

and continue installation with selecting language/disks/root password.

host has a datastore that conflicts with an existing datastore in the datacenter.

 Error:

 host has a datastore that conflicts with an existing datastore in the datacenter.

Solution:

On the Target VC verify is there a same name datastore.

    if already there.

  a)Unmount datastore that is name conflict.

  b)Delete the datastore.

vCenter server list all OPEN ports

Login to vCenter using ssh root access

go to Shell promt

run below command:

# iptables -L port_filter -n --line-numbers

Example:

root@ABC [ ~ ]# iptables -L port_filter -n --line-numbers

Chain port_filter (1 references)

num  target     prot opt source               destination

1    ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:22

2    ACCEPT     udp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            udp dpt:902

3    ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:902

4    ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:389

5    ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:636

6    ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:2014

7    ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:2012

8    ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:8084

9    ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:9084

10   ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:9087

11   ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:6501

12   ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:6502

vCenter server download agent plugin bundle manually

Login to vCenter server using ssh root access

go to Shell prompt

use below command: 

 wget https://<Agent IP>:<port>/deployment_bundle --no-check-certificate

example:

root@abc [ ~ ]# wget https://<IP>:<port>/deployment_bundle --no-check-certificate

--2022-02-10 23:43:08--  _deployment_bundle

Connecting to <>:<port>.. connected.

WARNING: cannot verify 's certificate, issued by ‘CN=sT=India,C=IN’:

  Self-signed certificate encountered.

    WARNING: certificate common name ‘’ doesn't match requested host name ‘<>’.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 73 (7.0M) [application/zip]

Saving to: ‘deployment_bundle’

scvm_webclient_depl 100%[===================>]   6.96M  --.-KB/s    in 0.1s

2022-02-10 23:43:08 (52.9 MB/s) - ‘deployment_bundle’ saved [/73]

root@abc [ ~ ]#