I'm trying to decide what makes sense as a boot device for my esxi dungeon lab.
Spinny Disk, SSD, SATA DOM, boot from network.
It appears that 8GB is a good size and 16GB would be more than enough.
ESXi 6.0 has these storage requirements:
It sounds like there is very little use of the boot device once ESXi spins up other than to store log files.
Is this correct?
Once ESXi is booted is there any effective difference in what kind of storage you boot from across the range.
It seems like any relatively reliable storage will provide the same performance once ESXi is up and running.
Is this correct?
In a lab environment is there any need at all to be concerned about write cycles? (I suspect the answer is no but am not sure).
Thanks,
Robert
Spinny Disk, SSD, SATA DOM, boot from network.
It appears that 8GB is a good size and 16GB would be more than enough.
ESXi 6.0 has these storage requirements:
- 1 Gigabyte+ boot device: Installing or upgrading to ESXi 6.0 requires a minimum of a 1 GB boot device.
Note: Although a 1 GB USB or SD device suffices for a minimal installation, you should use a 4 GB or larger device. The extra space is used for an expanded coredump partition on the USB/SD device.
- 4 GB extra for scratch partition: When booting from a local disk, a SAN or an iSCSI LUN, a 5.2 GB disk is required to allow for the creation of the VMFS volume and a 4 GB scratch partition on the boot device.
It sounds like there is very little use of the boot device once ESXi spins up other than to store log files.
Is this correct?
Once ESXi is booted is there any effective difference in what kind of storage you boot from across the range.
It seems like any relatively reliable storage will provide the same performance once ESXi is up and running.
Is this correct?
In a lab environment is there any need at all to be concerned about write cycles? (I suspect the answer is no but am not sure).
Thanks,
Robert