In the field of home labs, nested virtualization is the must to be able to create vSphere environments in a short time to test or try new features even in the EUC environment.

To help those who want to use nested virtualization, William Lam has been providing Nested ESXi Virtual Appliances for some years now.

Until a few days ago nested ESXi virtual appliances were available to download from William’s website (https://williamlam.com/) and since yesterday they have been available on the VMware Flings Community (Accessible with a free Broadcom community account that can be created here)

The convenience of using these virtual appliances is the ability to also create automatic scripts to be able to create nested environments such as vSphere clusters, vSAN and VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) environments in a short time, which can then be used to test Omnissa’s EUC solutions as well.

Here is William’s official post