The trunk-subnet design: one trunk vNIC, binding maps demux VLANs 1610/1611/1612 into VPC subnets

Nested ESXi inside an NSX VPC: the trunk-subnet design

Plain VPC subnets silently blackhole a nested ESXi host. Here’s why — and the trunk subnet + binding map design that makes nested labs work as an ordinary NSX VPC tenant, verified end to end.

16 September 2026 · 6 min · Adam Stretton