[AusNOG] Server/HD Question

[Jarryd Sullivan]

+1
It's rather common and very easy to replace if it fails however in my 3 years working with the stuff I haven't seen an SD card with ESX(i) stop working yet. A lot of the newer HP generation of servers (from the G5 through to the Gen 8's) have the ability to boot from removable media. I believe the G5's have internal USB ports on the board and G6 onwards have SD card slots. Not sure about the Dell's but I'd assume they're doing similar things. I haven't ever really seen a performance decrease from it being on removable media either so I'd assume there is minimal disk access after boot.

Jarryd Sullivan

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Ed Hallett
Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013 1:41 PM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Server/HD Question

+1
The HP Microservers even have a nice little internal USB port designed for exactly that. I think some of the production ones do as well, I can't remember off the top of my head.
I do remember years ago going "WTF" when I saw the internal usb port, and then the "oh cool" factor sunk in.


From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of James McMillan
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:49 PM
To: Skeeve Stevens; ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Server/HD Question

You're correct about the minimal boot disk access Skeeve, it's actually quite common to boot ESXi off internal SD card or USB drive, a lot of the newer Dell servers come with provisions for it.


James


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