Comments on: vT.A.R.D.I.S – 10 ESXi node cluster on a trolley as demonstrated at London VMUG http://vinf.net/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/ My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:23:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Server Room in Shipping container http://vinf.net/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-5851 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:41:17 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-5851 [...] A cheaper alternative… This is a Trolley Attached Random Datacentre of Inexpensive Servers (a.k.a. vT.A.R.D.I.S.) which is a 10-node ESXi cluster on a B&Q trolley. Reply With [...]

]]> By: Welcome to vSphere-land! » Home Lab Links http://vinf.net/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-5612 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:19:45 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-5612 [...] Lab with Nexentastor (Vinf.net) Distributed Power Management (DPM) for your Home Lab (Vinf.net) vT.A.R.D.I.S – 10 ESXi node cluster on a trolley as demonstrated at London VMUG (Vinf.net) vTARDIS Cloud (Vinf.net) Performance Update on Cheap vSphere Server (Vinf.net) Cheap [...]

]]> By: VMpros: My Homelab http://vinf.net/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-2266 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:45:32 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-2266 [...] Simon – vT.A.R.D.I.S – 10 ESXi node cluster on a trolley as demonstrated at London VMUG [...]

]]> By: VMware Express – The Challenge – Mark Vaughn's Weblog http://vinf.net/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-2144 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:32:24 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-2144 [...] Simon Gallagher (@vinf_net) has developed the v.T.A.R.D.I.S., and describes it on his blog HERE and HERE. This is a configuration made of two cheap PC-grade desktops, hosting 4 ESXi servers as VM’s [...]

]]> By: VMware ESX(i) Home Lab – Why, What and How? Considerations when building your own home lab. | TechHead.co.uk http://vinf.net/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-1640 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:59:04 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-1640 [...] vT.A.R.D.I.S – 10 ESXi node cluster on a trolley as demonstrated at London VMUG (vinf – Simon Gallagher) [...]

]]> By: Building your own VMware vSphere lab – A step by step guide. Part 1 – Lab Overview | TechHead.co.uk http://vinf.net/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-1637 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:48:06 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-1637 [...] Part 1: Lab Overview (TechHead) and vinf,net Lab Series Overview [...]

]]> By: vinf http://vinf.net/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-1479 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:29:12 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-1479 Datto, can you share the .vmx hacks to get Hyper-V running? very interesting, even if nested VM’s are not possible.

]]> By: Home Lab « Virtualised Reality http://vinf.net/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-1464 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:08:11 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-1464 [...] Click Here [...]

]]> By: Datto http://vinf.net/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-1463 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:31:22 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-1463 It looks like, from a not-so-quick test yesterday, a nested Hyper-V Server R1 and R2 will run under ESX 4.0U1A with some tweaks to the Hyper-V Server .vmx file but you can’t get nested VMs to run on the nested Hyper-V Server VMs. The nested Hyper-V Servers will show up in Hyper-V Manager as usual but there’s no way to get nested VMs to run on the Hyper-V Server VMs.

Datto

]]> By: Datto http://vinf.net/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-1452 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:06:45 +0000 http://vinf.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/#comment-1452 I just ran a quick test and installed a nested XenServer 5.5 server on a physical ESX 4.0 server that doesn’t have AMD-V or Intel VT capability and then started up a Linux VM on the nested XenServer 5.5.

So XenServer doesn’t require AMD-V nor Intel VT to run nested under ESX 4.0 and have Linux VMs running on it. CPU for the test was a single-core AMD Athlon 64 3500 so everything does run rather slowly but it was just a test to see if AMD-V/VT was required.

Windows VMs are still out of the question on nested XenServer VMs though.

Datto

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