Since this board doesn't come with an onboard USB port, I'm just wondering how others are configuring their ESXi (or other bare metal hypervisor) boot drive. It seems my only option is to go with an mSATA drive for this but it just seems like a waste since ESXi takes up such little space.
I would have gone with a smaller capacity SATA DOM but then I wouldn't be able to populate all 4 hot swap drive bays in addition to the RAID1 array (2 x SSDs) I'll be using for my local VM datastore.
I would have gone with a smaller capacity SATA DOM but then I wouldn't be able to populate all 4 hot swap drive bays in addition to the RAID1 array (2 x SSDs) I'll be using for my local VM datastore.