thank you for the very fast reply.
I see you mentioned creating separate raid on the new device. I have no need for raid storage on new host. all vm's are on iscsi datastore. Trying to make new host, nothing more than esxi with the 1 datastore still on nas.
If the new workstation to be used as host has no raid5 card at all, just single 1tb sata drive, just need esxi to install itself and "point" to the iSCSI datastore on network.
I am hoping to be able to purchase less expensive host since zero requirement for local datastore, local storage, local vm's, on host itself. Host strictly runs esxi.
I'm looking for a confident response like "since you aren't going to create a datastore locally on the new host, you shouldn't have any trouble installing esxi onto the 1tb sata drive.
