There are currently a lot of emerging technologies in the marketplace right now, and there are few that are more popular than the concept of nested virtualization. This capability has been a possibility in the vSphere ESXi stack for some time, but until recently, Microsoft had shown little interest in providing this same functionality. It could be, this was due to the fact that the only real use cases were lab environments and training. This has changed recently with the advent of cloud and container technologies as we continue to abstract more and more layers of our IT infrastructure.