CTO, SAS developer

Ben Conner

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Thanks, Andrew. &nbsp;Is there a minimum size ssd or a ssd to hdd ratio(e.g., 1tb SSD to 5TB hdd) I should be a ware of, or is that not as important?<br />
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--Ben
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Thanks, Andrew.  Is there a minimum size ssd or a ssd to hdd ratio(e.g., 1tb SSD to 5TB hdd) I should be a ware of, or is that not as important?

--Ben

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Perfect. &nbsp;Thank you sir.
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Hi,<br />
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I'm considering converting to a VSAN architecture with a hybrid model and am curious if there is any recommended ssd vs hdd ratio that is recommended? &nbsp;One host I already have a 500GB ssd in, but will need to buy one for the 2nd one.<br />
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Right now, I have 4.8TB of hdd space on the host that has the 500TB ssd drive, and 7.8TB of hdd space on the host that has no ssd on it.<br />
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Not all of this space is active VMs, and of those that are, 90% of the time they are lightly loaded.<br />
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--Ben
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Hi,

I'm considering converting to a VSAN architecture with a hybrid model and am curious if there is any recommended ssd vs hdd ratio that is recommended?  One host I already have a 500GB ssd in, but will need to buy one for the 2nd one.

Right now, I have 4.8TB of hdd space on the host that has the 500TB ssd drive, and 7.8TB of hdd space on the host that has no ssd on it.

Not all of this space is active VMs, and of those that are, 90% of the time they are lightly loaded.

--Ben

ssd to hdd ratio recommendation for VSAN deployment

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.