Hi,
I like to deploy a single ESXi host which holds max 5-8 CentOS VMs for educational purposes at home.
An HP420 RAID controller will be equipped with 4 SSDs and 4 HDDs ( 2x RAID10 ).
I have learnt IOPS is one of the key things in terms of disk performance, therefore has anyone experience with the Intenso SATA III High 2,5" SSDs (s-ata 600)?
I'm asking since The Intenso SSDs appear to have remarkable read 133.120 and write 128.000 Input/Output Operations Per Second?!
Instead should I stick with either Crucial (MX series) or Samsung (EVO series) SSDs ( relability ) ?
Also aiming to boot the ESXi Hypervisor on an 16Gb USB3.1 stick, again this is not meant for an enterprise environment and guess that should be fine considering the system won't be running 24/7.
Once storage is assigned to the Hypervisior I like to verify up front I can mount my linux VMs using both HDD and SSD storage, eg:
HDD:
/home
/tmp
/var
SWAP
SSD:
/
/usr
/opt
#srv
Looking forward to your feedback.
thanks!