I'm contemplating migrating moving my baremetal install on an HP Gen8 Microserver to ESXi (ESXi because I use it at work and am more familiar with it than Proxmox).
It seems pretty simple: just replace the xpenology USB boot stick I'm currently using with an ESXi boot stick, create a VM for DSM with a virtual boot image, pass through the existing disks and boot it up. DSM will do the "I've detected disks from another server, do you want to migrate?" thing, and I'm done, right?
My main question before I do this is: given that I'm running the SATA controller on the Gen8 in AHCI mode (ie. no "hardware" RAID), should I pass through the controller to the VM, or the individual disks in Raw Disk Mode? Is there any performance benefit to either?
The disks (4x3TB) are full with DSM data, obviously, so I'll not be able to use that set of disks for any other ESXi guests, but I'm considering getting an HBA at some point to add some extra storage.
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I'm contemplating migrating moving my baremetal install on an HP Gen8 Microserver to ESXi (ESXi because I use it at work and am more familiar with it than Proxmox).
It seems pretty simple: just replace the xpenology USB boot stick I'm currently using with an ESXi boot stick, create a VM for DSM with a virtual boot image, pass through the existing disks and boot it up. DSM will do the "I've detected disks from another server, do you want to migrate?" thing, and I'm done, right?
My main question before I do this is: given that I'm running the SATA controller on the Gen8 in AHCI mode (ie. no "hardware" RAID), should I pass through the controller to the VM, or the individual disks in Raw Disk Mode? Is there any performance benefit to either?
The disks (4x3TB) are full with DSM data, obviously, so I'll not be able to use that set of disks for any other ESXi guests, but I'm considering getting an HBA at some point to add some extra storage.
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