Link to home
Start Free TrialLog in
Avatar of DITGUY
DITGUY

asked on

Creating Windows Hyper-V training VMs

We need to create a lab environment where we can spin up the following to help train people how to use HyperV with our applications.

Each student will need:
2 HyperV systems
each system will have 4 Windows Server 2012 R2 VMs on it.

The 2 hosts need to be virtual so that we can duplicate them and grow with scale depending on the number of students in the class.

However at this time it looks like HyperV cannot be a role installed on a VM that is hosted by VMware host or HyperV host. At least not in a supported state.

We're not sure how else we're supposed to train our staff on using HyperV in the field. It can't just be basic HyperV training that is already out there.

Is there any product out there where you can create a virtual machine that runs HyperV and then inside that VM which is now a virtual host, run four other VMs?

Since Microsoft and VMware both don't officially support running nested HyperV I'm not sure where to look.
SOLUTION
Avatar of Lee W, MVP
Lee W, MVP
Flag of United States of America image

Link to home
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
Start Free Trial
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
Link to home
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
Start Free Trial
Avatar of DITGUY
DITGUY

ASKER

Thanks. I'll have to talk to management and the training teacher about those options. This is what I'm seeing:

OPTION 1:
Have two hosts running Hyper-V. Have 1 VM on each host for each student. Train the products from those VM. Show the users how to manage Hyper-V on those two hosts but don't give students ability to configure them.

OPTION 2: purchase 2 basic servers with plenty of ram per student so they can learn how to set up Hyper-V and manage it. Then learn how to do the VM management as well and finally the application. if I want to cut hardware in half have 1 host per student and have them work in pairs for the classes.

OPTION 2 has a drawback of cost well as having to spend far more time learning how to set up Hyper-V and VMs.

Thanks!