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Hi,<br />
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I want to build a vmware environment on Hyper V. Will use Openfiler as a storage.<br />
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Please let me know is it possible to build it on Hyper 2012?<br />
Does Hyper V supports nested visualization?<br />
Any other suggestion rather than Openfiler?
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Hi,

I want to build a vmware environment on Hyper V. Will use Openfiler as a storage.

Please let me know is it possible to build it on Hyper 2012?
Does Hyper V supports nested visualization?
Any other suggestion rather than Openfiler?

Installing ESXi on Hyper V 2012

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