I can't imagine ESXi doing software raid.  That's not their market and an
absolute freaking nightmare (this is coming from someone with a minimal
budget!)

Spanning as in raid5 or jbod?  Not just no but HELL NO.  Performance really
isn't a huge factor where you're at, but I have to imagine you want to make
sure it stays running.  Raid1 is fine, that's more budget friendly.  Raid10
is ideal, but that's more disks.

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On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 9:27 AM Mark - Myakka Technologies <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Helping  my son setup a ESXI server.  Going  into a datacenter
> a  few  states  away.   I  have  only  done some basic ESXI setup when
> fooling  around  with  mikrotik.   My  other  VM servers sit on top of
> ubuntu.   I  have  always  used  ubuntu  SW  raid10 when setting up my
> servers.
>
> Looks  like ESXI can be HW raid only.  Can't find anyway of doing
> SW raid.  Anything I'm missing?
>
> He  is going to put SSD's in the server.  I'm thinking just going with
> RAID 1 for some redundancy.  Spanning across SSD's does not seem to be
> worth it for performance.  Thought's on that?
>
>
>
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