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ProbablyNotAndr
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Contributor

Run VM using only RAM-based datastore?

I have a number of ESXI hosts connected to my Jenkins server, and each host has a ton of RAM. In my Jenkins builds, I want to deploy and test VM images as fast as possible, so I'd like to know if it is possible to create the VM's disk images in a RAM-based datastore?  I have no need for any disk persistence, because as soon as the Jenkins build has completed, the VM will be torn down.

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sjesse
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Leadership

I'm pretty sure this isn't possible. The "closest" you could get is create a virtual nas is create a ramdisk and use that to provision a iscsi lun.

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Tibmeister
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Expert

This wouldn't be possible with ESXi, but you could run your test/deploy pipeline using Docker or vSphere Integrated Containers. 

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