Hyper-V and esxi on unRAID? - Questions answered

[Muff]

Hi,

 

I'm in planing on building my a new computer and I'm wondering if it's possible to run (nested in nested?) Hyper-V and esxi ontop of a unRAID installation?

 

I want (if possible) to have a gaming PC (as a vm or not, doesn't matter) and a virtual environment for my lab and testing.

Something like this:

 

I've googled and search this forum but haven't found a clear answer yet but it seems unachievable and I'll need at least 2 computers for that.

 

Thank you!

 

/Muff

[demonmaestro]

Is there any reason why you need to have a VM under hyper-v and esxi that can't be done under unraid?

[ashman70]

Are you wanting to do this for IT learning/education or just for the fun of it?

 

Building a VM for gaming on unRAID is certainly doable.

 

If you are wanting to learn Esxi and Hyper-V I would suggest installing those on their own physical hosts.

[Muff]

Is there any reason why you need to have a VM under hyper-v and esxi that can't be done under unraid?

 

Yes, for testing different IT data center solutions

 

Are you wanting to do this for IT learning/education or just for the fun of it?

 

Building a VM for gaming on unRAID is certainly doable.

 

If you are wanting to learn Esxi and Hyper-V I would suggest installing those on their own physical hosts.

 

Exactly, I want to set-up an Hyper-V and VMware environment for just that and for now I'm going to test a hybrid data center solution with example Azure.

But if I remember correctly (at least Hyper-V) doesn't support a nested in nested(?) (VM in VM in VM) solution but I wanted to check here first 

It seems that I need 3 computers (1 gaming & 2 lab) for what I want.

 

 

[ashman70]

If you are wanting to do this for learning or test a real world solution, best thing is to replicate the real world solution as closely as possible, so install Hyper V and Esxi as you would in the real world. Installing them in unRAID would not be real world for a business.

[tdallen]

Agreed.  Even if you could get Hyper-V or Esxi running under unRAID it would be a science experiment.

[garycase]

If the goal is to test real-world usage scenarios, I agree you're better off with 2 PC's => install ESXI on one and Hyper-V on the other.  You can run UnRAID under ESXI if you don't want a 3rd dedicated PC for UnRAID (there are several threads on doing this).

 

 

[Muff]

For this experiment I want to see if I can move VMs between on-prem and the Cloud and if possible between different hypervisor, something like AOS (Nutanixs KVM) can migrate VMs when changing hypervisor in their cluster. Also a hybrid datacenter with Azures with a Hyper-V, a VMware and a Nutanix environment.

This is just to see what I/you can do and can't + I get hands-on experience

 

And if I want to test something else in the future I could easily power-on the needed VMs.

 

On unRAID I wanted to use the applications service and 2 VMs (1 gaming PC and 1 HTPC).

 

I thank you a lot for all your help and feedback!

It's much appreciated!

Now I just have to think about if I want to build a 2-in-1 PC (2 motherboards, 1 chassi) as my lab PC and/or just 1 PC as I have now... Maybe I can get my boss to get me one hehe