Editing Phanteks Enthoo Primo (section)

==Current Loading / Setup==

At the moment this system is in service and runs 24/7. The base is a VMware ESXi server 6.0 U2, installed on a direct attached SSD disk. Three nested ESXi servers are running on top of the physical ESXi server.

Each nested ESXi has two CPUs with two sockets and about 16GB ram. They have also each its own physical disk access. This is realised with the LSI SAS controller. At the moment there is no pass-through mode, i had no time to check the SAS controller more detailed (speaking about the IT or IR firmware available for this controller). The physical ESXi server provides the disks. The VMDK files of the nested ESXi servers are stored on these physical disks.

The first base VMs is a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard as a domain controller (not running on the nested ESXi servers) and also the vCenter Server Appliance, which is also not located on top of the nested hypervisors.

In the actual state my first goal is to create a nested ESXi environment to get Vmware Virtual SAN up and running. With this lab i want to prepare and train for VMware VCP certification (topics are security, networking, storage, troubleshooting and availability).

I've got already some ideas in mind how to extend this lab, but this will be covered in another article :-)