I have a spare Gen8 which I've decided to turn into a small homelab and install ESXi on, purely as a learning exercise for ESXi itself and using VM's to tinker with stuff. The ESXi install will be on a USB stick, I'm a complete newbie to any kind of hypervisor thus doing a lot of reading still.
Currently the only storage is a 256gb ssd, I want to know whether this will be enough volume or I should be looking at expanding it? A lot of the advice on the net appears to more geared to larger environments and raid 5 / 10 arguments.
Currently the only storage is a 256gb ssd, I want to know whether this will be enough volume or I should be looking at expanding it? A lot of the advice on the net appears to more geared to larger environments and raid 5 / 10 arguments.