I'm running two ESXi white boxes for about a year now. One is 3.5 one is 4.0, both have HORRIBLE disk performance and that is intended. Or does anybody believe that a major company like VMWare pushes this product on the market without testing its disk performance? Does VMWare really think SMB admins are that stupid?
I'm glad I didn't spend my 2009 budget on a ProLiant + ESXi License.
Gonna check the ESX400-200912401-BG this weekend. I'm curious if they reconsidered their ESXi Disk I/O politics.
EDIT: I can hardly see any difference, I downloaded and then uploaded a 5GB file, see the attached screenshot. Hardware: WD Raid Drives, ICH9R, Intel NIC, HP ProCurve Switch. So... local storage in ESXi is still a no go!
Funny... I can troughput almost twice the data at the same time here on my homenetwork from my workstation to my HTPC. Microsoft's SMB stinks?... hell no.... it rocks compared to ESXi! :smileygrin: