ESXi boot drive on SuperMicro X10SDV-F?

[JimPhreak]

I wound up buying one of these because I need to passthrough a USB flash drive to my unRAID VM and didn't want to use any of my external USB ports for that. I think I'm leaning towards the SATA DOM for the ESXi boot drive and I'm going to use a fast M.2 drive for VM storage.

 

[specv]

I wound up buying one of these because I need to passthrough a USB flash drive to my unRAID VM and didn't want to use any of my external USB ports for that. I think I'm leaning towards the SATA DOM for the ESXi boot drive and I'm going to use a fast M.2 drive for VM storage.

Why not the external usb ports?

My set will be exactly the same. 500GB M.2 SSD and a 32GB satadom. I evaluated the 16/32/64 sata dom and the 32GB has the best price/performance ratio assuming you dont need more than 32GB of space..

 

[JimPhreak]

Why not the external usb ports?

My set will be exactly the same. 500GB M.2 SSD and a 32GB satadom. I evaluated the 16/32/64 sata dom and the 32GB has the best price/performance ratio assuming you dont need more than 32GB of space..

Just prefer to keep those open. You need 32GB for an ESXi boot drive? Seems like a waste of space to me.

 

[specv]

16GB is almost just as much of a waste if you look at it that way. What I liked about the 32/64 was they are twice as fast as the 16GB.

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So not that I need the extra 16GB or even that the extra 250mb/sec makes a difference it just seemed like better value. Though my plans is to simply install ESXi if i installed something else it doesn't hurt having better performance for a minimal cost increase. I choose to not go with the 64GB only because it was significantly more expensive, it didn't add additional performance and the extra space was already unnecessary.

 

[JimPhreak]

16GB is almost just as much of a waste if you look at it that way. What I liked about the 32/64 was they are twice as fast as the 16GB.

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So not that I need the extra 16GB or even that the extra 250mb/sec makes a difference it just seemed like better value. Though my plans is to simply install ESXi if i installed something else it doesn't hurt having better performance for a minimal cost increase. I choose to not go with the 64GB only because it was significantly more expensive, it didn't add additional performance and the extra space was already unnecessary.

Ahh I see. For me it would probably be either the 16GB or 64GB because the only reason I'd need more is to install something like Windows for Hyper-V and 32GB probably wouldn't be large enough.

 

[T_Minus]

I use those exact USB drives too, but the X10SDV-F motherboard does not have onboard USB ports.

I have the same in my router USB for logs actually too.

 

[specv]

Ahh I see. For me it would probably be either the 16GB or 64GB because the only reason I'd need more is to install something like Windows for Hyper-V and 32GB probably wouldn't be large enough.

looking at it that way you are correct, the 64GB probably makes the most sense.