Hi!
I'm about to add a new esxi node, and figured I'd probably want vCenter as well. However, the sizing seems pretty brutal for a homelab, with the "tiny" option claiming 2 vCPU/10 GB mem/300 GB disk? I obviously don't have the budget/space some of you lucky people have (one day!), but this seems a bit prohibitive unless you are putting up a rather big environment.
For reference, my old node is a X9SPV-LN4F-3QE (4/8 core, 12 GB mem), and the new one is a Xeon D-1528 (6/12 core, 32 GB mem). So a 10 GB footprint for vCSA would be quite a big chunk of my resources... How do you manage this? Or am I simply not playing big enough?
My motivation for vCSA would be partly to learn about the HA/vMotion bits (in practice, letting the pfSense VM migrate between nodes), and part in having a single point of administration for virtualization, vs logging into specific nodes for specific VMs.
I'm about to add a new esxi node, and figured I'd probably want vCenter as well. However, the sizing seems pretty brutal for a homelab, with the "tiny" option claiming 2 vCPU/10 GB mem/300 GB disk? I obviously don't have the budget/space some of you lucky people have (one day!), but this seems a bit prohibitive unless you are putting up a rather big environment.
For reference, my old node is a X9SPV-LN4F-3QE (4/8 core, 12 GB mem), and the new one is a Xeon D-1528 (6/12 core, 32 GB mem). So a 10 GB footprint for vCSA would be quite a big chunk of my resources... How do you manage this? Or am I simply not playing big enough?
My motivation for vCSA would be partly to learn about the HA/vMotion bits (in practice, letting the pfSense VM migrate between nodes), and part in having a single point of administration for virtualization, vs logging into specific nodes for specific VMs.