how to multi-boot proxmox with ESXi

[tomato.egg]

well, it sounds not practical to multi-boot your virtualization server.

but i'm using it as educational tool for learning purposes.
i want to try different virtualization alternative at the same time.

currently I have ESXi 5.1 installed, but that's ok I can delete all these and start over a clean install.

I have two storage devices (DAS), one 60GB SSD and 1.5TB HDD
SSD is to store the hypervisor while HDD is to store VM files and misc. files (as datastore)

may I know which should I install first?
I was thinking install Proxmox first. we can partition the SSD during the installation and modify the grub.conf to chainload the different hypervisor?

*well my thought is to multi-boot Proxmox together with Fedora-Ovirt, ESXi, and CentOS-opennode......
I have tried to read the installation materials for these 4 and GRUB, but wonder how i'm going to do it.

Any pointer will be much appreciated.
THANKS!!!

 

[wg0f]

well, it sounds not practical to multi-boot your virtualization server.

but i'm using it as educational tool for learning purposes.
i want to try different virtualization alternative at the same time.

currently I have ESXi 5.1 installed, but that's ok I can delete all these and start over a clean install.

I have two storage devices (DAS), one 60GB SSD and 1.5TB HDD
SSD is to store the hypervisor while HDD is to store VM files and misc. files (as datastore)

may I know which should I install first?
I was thinking install Proxmox first. we can partition the SSD during the installation and modify the grub.conf to chainload the different hypervisor?

*well my thought is to multi-boot Proxmox together with Fedora-Ovirt, ESXi, and CentOS-opennode......
I have tried to read the installation materials for these 4 and GRUB, but wonder how i'm going to do it.

Any pointer will be much appreciated.
THANKS!!!

I would like to do the same thing for the same reason. Has anyone had any insight into doing this?
Thanks.

 

[Etienne Charlier]

In my homelab, my "compute" nodes are DELL optiplex.

I installed two 2.5" HDD ( one for proxmox, one for esxi)
Only one hdd id activated in bios at once.

I use the bios settings to switch from one OS to the other.