Questions About SanDisk Fusion IoScale 3.2TB PCIe SSD (F11-002-3T20-CS-0001)

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As the title suggests, I have a few questions about the Fusion IoScale 3.2TB SSD:

• Is this device supported in ESXi 6.5u3 and/or 6.7u3 ?
• Will this device work without installing additional drivers ?
  • If not, where should I go to download the required drivers ?
• What level of performance should I expect from this device ?
• What are your suggestions for workloads this device can handle ?

I've seen other threads about similar devices, but wanted to avoid necro'ing or derailing older threads.

• https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/fusion-io-3-2-tb-pci-e-ioscale-internal-ssd.27127/
• https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/fusion-io-iodrive-2-1-2tb-reference-page.11287/

 

[Sogndal94]

Is this device supported in ESXi 6.5u3 and/or 6.7u3 ?
- yes, but it uses a vmklinux driver, so everything after 6.7 is not supported.

Will this device work without installing additional drivers ?
- no. You need to install the .vib

If not, where should I go to download the required drivers ?
- you download them from the sandisk website.

What level of performance should I expect from this device ?
- i get about 1,1-1,5 GB/s in windows, dont remember iOps

What are your suggestions for workloads this device can handle ?
- VMs, using it as a datastore, storing your files on it, heating your server up. This is “cheap” mass storage. Dont expect to be blow away by its preformance.