Although it will work just fine if plugged into a USB 2.0 port – most USB 3.0 flash drives are backward compatible with USB 2.0. If it has a USB 3.0 connector, make sure you plug it into the USB 3.0 port for maximum performance and data transfer speeds.
Plug your USB flash drive into any USB port. Potentially limited SSD space while also being optimized for the largeīlock sizes at which some SSDs work best.Buy on Amazon How to use your flash drive (as described below) are two different approaches for improving host NOTE Using swap to host cache and putting the regular swap file in SSD SSD storage to have a potentially significant performance impact Host, and host-level swapping of their most active pages will benefitįrom the low latency of SSD. Swap cache will be shared by all the virtual machines running on the Installed) to be used for the new swap to host cache feature. You can optionally configure a special host cache on an SSD (if one is Can I just reinstall ESXi on another USB stick and ESXi will pickup as if nothing happened?Īccording to VMWare's ESXi 5.0 Performance Best Practices ( PDF Link): I think my main concern is if the USB stick dies for whatever random reason. I'd prefer to use the SSDs for something other than the ESXi installation. Assuming the USB stick I use has adequate storage (say 16GB), is there any advantage to installing ESXi on an SSD or better yet, and SSD RAID1 mirror? Note: The documentation states that ESXi takes up 5.2GB of free space on disk 5.2GB + 4GB = 9.2GB which is well below the 16GB for the USB stick. 
According to VMWare's documentation, when ESXi is booting it looks for a 4GB space for a scratch partition. I'm debating on doing an ESXi 4.1/5.0 installation on a USB stick or a pair of 32GB SATA II SSDs (RAID1 mirror).
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