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Home Lab – Deploy vCenter 7 and vSAN on nested ESXi UPDATED

Posted on July 13, 2022 by Matt Adam

I have a few updates to my original post, but overall the previous guide is basically the same: Deploy vCenter 7 and vSAN on nested ESXi
It will take you through the steps of deploying vCenter on one of the nested ESXI hosts, then adding each of the hosts and setting up vSAN, DRS, HA, etc..

The only change that I made, is that instead of setting the IPs statically in the 10.10.1.0/24 network, I just set them to DHCP and let me home router issue them IP addresses in the 192.168.3.0/24 space. With this new lab I’m not messing around with different subnets outside of NSX-T, mainly since I have an unmanaged switch that doesn’t respect vlans.

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My name is Matt Adam and I’m a Product Line Manager at VMware.

I support the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks) with a focus on containers and Kubernetes. I have a background in load balancing, automation, development, and public cloud.

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