This thought came up to me cuz I am a heavy user of LINKED CLONES in VMWare Workstation 16, and while I need a Unraid NAS for
storage, I wouldn't like to purchase another device for it.
The specs of the self-built server is capable of this job in hardware I guess (32c64t zen1 epyc 7551p, 192G RAM 2666Mhz, 3 HBA/Raid Cards, PCIE spliting cards that devides a x16 into a 4 port LAN and 2 m.2 22110 drives, two GT710s and a GTX970).
While server boards have multiple PCIE slots and extraordinary expansion capability, I am planning to use ESXI 7.0 on it as a host, and install 2 VMs: Windows 10 Profrssional, and Unraid, each using a dedicated GPU.
Storage would be in unraid and Windows 10 would have VMWare Workstation 16 running on it.
↑👆That is the plan, however not knowing if it would be working.
And I'm confused that if I can still use VMs in these two guest systems. (Unraid has VM features and I would want to have a try 😄
Would anyone be so kind to tell me if this would work? or have anyone ever tried this before?
Linked clones are possible with standalone ESXi since ESXi 4.
Read my instructions for ESXi 4 - basically nothing has changed ....
http://sanbarrow.com/linkedcloneswithesxi.html
Ulli
Linked clones are possible with standalone ESXi since ESXi 4.
Read my instructions for ESXi 4 - basically nothing has changed ....
http://sanbarrow.com/linkedcloneswithesxi.html
Ulli
I see... it's kinda trick the host system (EXSi OS) into thinking that these snapshots are separate VMs.
It didn't solve the Subject, but the method could work for me so I think that would be a true answer to me, thanks sincerely.
One more thing, what if I need to run apps that lies on a separate V-Disk, and has heavy reads (less writes) on thee?
Would the storage space quickly becomes a giant or would it smoothly build up?
I know the ending would always being me needing to clean it all and to re-do all the "Creating Linked Clones" process again though.
> .. it's kinda trick the host system (EXSi OS) into thinking that these snapshots are separate VMs.
NO - a VM basically is a vmx-file.
Each VM can be started at the same time.
If you want you can add more sepate, independant vmdks to each VM.
Ulli