I do not operate ESXi this way, but I can tell you that the system runs in a ramdisk after it's booted. AFAIK, the only access to the storage occurs once an hour when it performs a backup of the config files to the storage.
-☙ Brian Mathis ❧- On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Rob Cherry <lo...@lxrb.com> wrote: > Not too concerned about other considerations, but from a pure reliability > standpoint, what does the LOPSA world think about running production ESXi > servers from an internal SDHC flash device (as offered by HP). Anyone out > there who has been running like this for years and totally happy? No > problem patching/upgrading etc? No nightmare flash failures to worry about? > > Curious to hear what the prevailing wisdom is :-) > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
