From numerous searches, I've seen people warned off using anything but striped mirrors for ESXi storage. It seems the non-sequential performance of RAIDZ3 would be detrimental to virtual machine performance.
However the resiliency of RAIDZ3 is very appealing. -Any- three drives can fail as opposed to multiple drives can fail as long as they are not in the same mirror.
With the competitive SSD prices one can get 512G of supercap ssd for less than 450G of enterprise spinning rust. So I was...
ESXi NFS storage SSD RAIDZ3
However the resiliency of RAIDZ3 is very appealing. -Any- three drives can fail as opposed to multiple drives can fail as long as they are not in the same mirror.
With the competitive SSD prices one can get 512G of supercap ssd for less than 450G of enterprise spinning rust. So I was...
ESXi NFS storage SSD RAIDZ3