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uyozTic
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ESXi & SSD caching

i have a ASUS Sabertooth x79 motherboard based whitebox getting ready to install ESXi.

question is whether to connect a SSD 64GB drive to the Marvell SATA port or the Intel SATA port. the Marvell port has the SSD caching. or not even install the SSD drive and just put ESXi on a small USB drive.

i'll mention, my VM's will reside on a NAS & this whitebox has 32GB ram.

tia

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spravtek
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I use an SSD as a host cache device ... I have enough memory to play with as well, it's just a lab environment ... ESXi can run perfectly from an SD card, VM's on SAN and the SSD as a host cache for when you want to test/play with memory overcommit.

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spravtek
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I use an SSD as a host cache device ... I have enough memory to play with as well, it's just a lab environment ... ESXi can run perfectly from an SD card, VM's on SAN and the SSD as a host cache for when you want to test/play with memory overcommit.

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chriswahl
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I use a small USB stick for the ESXi hypervisor in all my lab hosts and can share that it works just fine. I'd use the SSD for host cache (as mentioned previously) or perhaps as a high performance local datastore.

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uyozTic
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@spravtek & @chriswahl,

thanks appreciate your help!

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