Stux
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Re: L2Arc and Swap on the samsung. Works well. But when I have a high end PCIe PLP NVMe, I use that instead :)
I'm interested in peoples results with the 4x M.2 cards, as long term I plan to replace the P3700 with one, and then use a SLOG m.2 on that, and some other drives etc... the P3700 will probably migrate to my fullsize system.
ESXi booting from a USB is probably a good way to go. NVMe booting is what requires bios support, not NVMe per-se, and ESXi is specifically designed for USB booting. It makes very few changes to the USB drive, so it won't have the same longevity problem that FreeNAS has. I can't boot my X10SDV from USB *and* passthrough the USBs into VM as there is only one USB chain, and very few USB ports.
Also, there are best practises out in ESXi land about making your USB esxi boots from a script, so that you can rebuild them easily etc... I've never done this.
This is a good website: https://www.virtuallyghetto.com
VMware-kickstarting: https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/vmware-kickstart
I'm interested in peoples results with the 4x M.2 cards, as long term I plan to replace the P3700 with one, and then use a SLOG m.2 on that, and some other drives etc... the P3700 will probably migrate to my fullsize system.
ESXi booting from a USB is probably a good way to go. NVMe booting is what requires bios support, not NVMe per-se, and ESXi is specifically designed for USB booting. It makes very few changes to the USB drive, so it won't have the same longevity problem that FreeNAS has. I can't boot my X10SDV from USB *and* passthrough the USBs into VM as there is only one USB chain, and very few USB ports.
Also, there are best practises out in ESXi land about making your USB esxi boots from a script, so that you can rebuild them easily etc... I've never done this.
This is a good website: https://www.virtuallyghetto.com
VMware-kickstarting: https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/vmware-kickstart
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