Hello everyone, I have a question similar to the original post. Sorry I am am unclear on some virtualization concepts so I will try to be as clear as I can with my case.
I wanted to evaluate vCenter and I setup a vmware environment on my laptop in order to play around with vCenter and spin out some test VMs using an ESXi5 host as a datastore for this vCenter
On my physical laptop (Dell latitude e6500 - in the BIOS, virtualization is enabled on this physical laptop), I am running VM Workstation 8
I am running 2 VMs, 1st is a Win2008 R2 x64 server with the vCenter client and vCenter server installed. The 2nd is a ESXi5 hypervisor (host/datastore).
When I try to spin out a new 64 bit VM (nested VM) in the vCenter client, and then power it on, I get the following error:
on the ESXi host/datastore for the vCenter (virtual), I have VT-x/EPT enabled:
I tried to check the BIOS of the ESXi, but there are no options to enable the virtualization
I also updated the /etc/vmware/config (on the ESXi server) to set the vhv values to TRUE
but running the esxcfg-info| grep "HV Support" I am getting a '0'
So what I am unclear about is 1) how do I enable virtualization on teh ESXi 5 host, when after checking of the VM > Settings > Processors > enable Virtualize Intel VT-x.. and updating the config file I am still getting a '0' for HV Support
and 2) should I enable any other setting on the vCenter server (win2008 R2 x64), or is this related to the ESXi server only? I am not sure where the error to run the 64bit VMs is coming from, is it only from the ESXi host or is it also from the vCenter server?
I hope I explained this clearly.. Thanks!