So my research tells me there likely is not a way to do this, but I think someone must have run into it before or there has been a previous need.
We have recently had two Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard virtual machines created for our use in our data center. We are using them to run a series of web scanning and monitoring tools. We want to run these tools within various Windows OS environments with different combinations of browsers/applications/etc, making VMs the obvious way to go (preferably multiple VMs per virtual server). I don't know much about the virtual data center here, but when I try to enable Hyper-V, the system tells me it is running and cannot run within itself. Likewise, if I try to install VMWare, it tells me it is not compatible with Hyper-V.
This may be akin to asking for Inception, but is there a way around it? Does anyone know of a way to run a VM inside a virtual server, or does anyone see an alternate solution? So far the only one I've come up with is to requisition physical servers, install Windows Server 2012 on each, and then use a single level of either Hyper-V or VMWare to create the virtual machines we need.
Any information is greatly appreciated.