Deploy Sangfor HCI in nested virtualize environment

shang8391 Lv1Posted Jul-29-2025 14:56

I would like to test Sangfor HCI in my lab. We have HPE Gen11 server and storage in vSphere environment. Is it possible to deploy Sangfor HCI inside the 3-tier VMware environment?

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Last edited by AimanHakim Jul-30-2025 11:44.

Yes, any 3rd party server as long it meets the requirement such as minimum CPU, RAM, storage etc. So far i've seen HCI deploy in Dell, QCT and ZTE servers. Ofcoursee if it's directly install as baremetal, type 1 Hypervisor.
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Newbie705832 Lv1Posted Jul-31-2025 15:41
  
Yes it is possible to deploy Sangfor aSV on top of other virtualization (nested). But, in my experience it just stuck when I try to provision virtual storage, the reason is disk performance a.k.a R/W speed is not in minimum requirement.

I've try using ESXi and VMware Workstation, in ESXi it is a more worse than Workstation.

Here I try on Workstation, my underlying storage is NVMe SSD and still does not meet minimum requirement:


And this one is ESXi using SATA SSD:


So that is the only blockage I've encountered right now.

And if you want to still try it, remember to add and set "disk.EnableUUID" parameter to "TRUE" in advanced paramater of the VM.


My vm config:

shang8391 Lv1Posted Jul-30-2025 10:09
  
Hi, Sangfor HCI can deploy to any branded baremetal?
AimanHakim Lv2Posted Jul-30-2025 00:49
  
Hi there, I'm not sure whether it works or not. Just that when deploy HCI as baremetal, it doesn't support nested VM (VM in VM). So what ur trying to test install Sangfor HCI inside of an existing VMware environment, I think it won't work but u can try the least or contact support to clarify

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