Thinking of using couple of 950 pro 512GB in VSAN...These will be used for VM's that are mostly reads..
Anybody using these for ESXI?
Anybody using these for ESXI?
Samsung 950 pro for ESXI
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Definitely Bandwidth and even with PLX switching you ar adding latency and then hurting overall performance.
Why use the 950(which is m2) instead of something like the intel 750, boards with 3 m2 slots are few but multiple PCIE x4 lanes are easy to find
I think you'd saturate your link before that made sense, and you can get bigger AIC than M2 cards...
I'm not saying you can't! already having the board means it should be fine for either then samsung 950 or intel 750 I just know boards with ~4 4x or 8x slots are easier to find than boards with 4 m.2 slots if you wanted more than 2 drives !
I'm using the 256GB version as cache tier in a VSAN AFA 3 node cluster and would be glad to share notes or whatever. FYI I ran into multiple issues and backed out of VSAN for awhile. Not due to 950 Pros per se, and maybe not relevant since you're running Asrock boards and perhaps are taking the VSAN hybrid route instead of AFA.
Intel Xeon D-1540 10GbE X552/X557 driver/VIB for VMware ESXi 6 coming SOON!
LSI 2308 card not seeing Samsung PM853T SSDs at all?
VMUG EvalExperience VSAN AFA licensing
I'm now back up and running with VSAN AFA at the moment, but my capacity tier (Samsung PM853T based) is connected by the onboard Lynx Point SATA controllers (unsupported and could cause VSAN to offline disks/nodes under stress load)