I got a 16 GB USB3 drive that I'm thinking of using for running ESXi and napp-it app from. This way, I can use all of the SATA ports for HDDs. I think this is technically doable and much cheaper than me going out and buying 2 x 60 gb SSDs and losing 2 sata ports. Is this a good idea? I don't know how much IO there is on the USB3 drive itself once napp-it is up and running. And is Read/Write to the zpool going to degrade because of a slow OS drive?
run ESXi and OmniOS+napp-it from USB?
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I do not think esx will allow you to create a datastore on the usb drive. It will install on it but not let you define a datastore for your solaris OS to run napp-it on.I got a 16 GB USB3 drive that I'm thinking of using for running ESXi and napp-it app from. This way, I can use all of the SATA ports for HDDs. I think this is technically doable and much cheaper than me going out and buying 2 x 60 gb SSDs and losing 2 sata ports. Is this a good idea? I don't know how much IO there is on the USB3 drive itself once napp-it is up and running. And is Read/Write to the zpool going to degrade because of a slow OS drive?
Would it be possible to do this if I leave, say, 8 GB of it as raw and have it install solaris to the raw space?I do not think esx will allow you to create a datastore on the usb drive. It will install on it but not let you define a datastore for your solaris OS to run napp-it on.
Or even, another USB 3 device?
Not possible.Would it be possible to do this if I leave, say, 8 GB of it as raw and have it install solaris to the raw space?
Or even, another USB 3 device?
You cannot create a datastore (where you can place your storage VM) on any USB stick.
I thought the whole concept behind napp-it to go was to have ESXi and OmniOS+Napp-it run from USB? So there must have been a way to do this? I guess what I'm trying to do is make a napp-it to-go edition for my own hardware. Should I install everything unto a HDD and then clone it to a USB? How did you go about creating it?Not possible.
You cannot create a datastore (where you can place your storage VM) on any USB stick.
That is not correct.I thought the whole concept behind napp-it to go was to have ESXi and OmniOS+Napp-it run from USB? So there must have been a way to do this? I guess what I'm trying to do is make a napp-it to-go edition for my own hardware. Should I install everything unto a HDD and then clone it to a USB? How did you go about creating it?
Napp-it to go is a ready to use storage appliance barebone distribution without ESXi
If you want to virtualize a napp-it storage server with ESXi, you must look at the All-In-One concept where you can place ESXi onto an USB stick or local sata disk but you need the additional local disk to place the storage VM onto plus an additional controller in pass-through mode for your ZFS storage pool.
see http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/all-in-one.pdf