Nested ESXi on Top of a vSAN Datastore Posted on October 3, 2021March 5, 2022 To run a nested ESXi on top of vSAN, you have to make a quick hack. Thanks again to William Lam, who figured it out. Here is the copy from his blog post and a direct link to the post: How to run Nested ESXi on top of a VSAN datastore?