Should I put Vmware Esxi 6.0 on a flash drive?

Question

VMware

I want to buy a fast flash drive, for example
Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 16GB

And put Esxi 6.0 there, I assume that it will be both faster and more reliable than putting it on a hard drive, because as I understand Esxi does not often access the media on which it is installed and it will be idle, but the hard In any case, the disk will rotate and wear out
. That is, theoretically, the flash drive will be more reliable.

Tell me, am I right or not?

Answer 1

don't care =)

Answer 2

you also need to choose the right color for the keyboard that will be connected to this server;)

Answer 3

about sandisk extreme already said that this is essentially an ssd with a usb interface - so here one fig turns out to be installed on a disk

Answer 4

With a competent organization of the virtual infrastructure, there is no need for a fast flash drive. If you have all virtual machines on some kind of storage (FC, iSCSI, NFS - it doesn't matter), and ESX is only engaged in "computing", and there are no machines on local disks, then any flash drive of 2-4 giga will do. Ideally, you just need to start a syslog server on the network (any unix server can act as it) and make a separate scratch partition on the storage. And then the flash drive will only be needed to boot ESX, and will not be used in any other cases. And then any cheap flash drive will be enough.

Answer 5

The hypervisor works great on the cheapest flash drive, it does not affect performance, because after loading the hypervisor lives in RAM, I would advise you to take a flash drive with 4+ GB, it can be less, but the memory controller will have fewer spare blocks on the flash drive to replace broken sections.