# Milestone 3 - Nested Virtualization and Templates

### Add DNS records for new ESXis

Make new A and PTR pointers for nested1-3

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### Changing ESXi VM Startup

Change ESXi start up order

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### Making ESXi Templates

Deploying the template

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Make sure to thin provision

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Gave the nested vms their own folder

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Edit 350-Internal on ESXi host

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### Add DHCP to the Network

Setup DHCP on pfsense (Very straightforward)

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### Make ubuntu 22.04 vm and turn it into a template:

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Find the VM Customization Specifications on the home page and create a customization called Ubuntu-22.04 Specification

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After cloning output

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### Now create a rocky 8 vm and once through the installer install open-vm-tools

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Deploy Rocky using template

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Rocky getting DHCP

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