A vSAN administrator is looking at adding a new vSAN cluster with hosts that have 512GB memory.
What is the minimum requirement for the node's flash boot device?
A vSAN administrator is looking at adding a new vSAN cluster with hosts that have 512GB memory.
What is the minimum requirement for the node's flash boot device?
The minimum requirement for the node's flash boot device for a vSAN cluster with hosts that have 512GB memory is 4GB. This is because, for ESXi hosts with 512GB of memory or less, the minimum boot device size must be at least 4GB. This is sufficient to handle the coredump partition and boot requirements.
Answer is D: 4GB https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vsan-planning.doc/GUID-4B738A10-4506-4D70-8339-28D8C8331A15.html Flash Boot Devices During installation, the ESXi installer creates a coredump partition on the boot device. The default size of the coredump partition satisfies most installation requirements. If the memory of the ESXi host has 512 GB of memory or less, you can boot the host from a USB, SD, or SATADOM device. When you boot a vSAN host from a USB device or SD card, the size of the boot device must be at least 4 GB. If the memory of the ESXi host has more than 512 GB, consider the following guidelines. You can boot the host from a SATADOM or disk device with a size of at least 16 GB. When you use a SATADOM device, use a single-level cell (SLC) device. If you are using vSAN 6.5 or later, you must resize the coredump partition on ESXi hosts to boot from USB/SD devices. For more information, see the VMware knowledge base article at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2147881.
Agree with Kayman, The question is "What is the minimum requirement"
D. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vsan-planning.doc/GUID-B09CE19D-A3F6-408C-AE69-35F65CBE66E1.html
If the memory of the ESXi host has 512 GB of memory or less, you can boot the host from a USB, SD, or SATADOM device. When you boot a vSAN host from a USB device or SD card, the size of the boot device must be at least 4 GB.
Flash Boot Devices During installation, the ESXi installer creates a coredump partition on the boot device. The default size of the coredump partition satisfies most installation requirements. n If the memory of the ESXi host has 512 GB of memory or less, you can boot the host from a USB, SD, or SATADOM device. When you boot a vSAN
minimum requirement. But it asked for new host. SATADOM device, you must use single-level cell (SLC) device. The size of the boot device must be at least 16 GB https://be-virtual.net/vmware-esxi-satadom-boot-device/ Answer Should Be A.
If the memory of the ESXi host has 512 GB of memory or less. The size of the boot device must be at least 4 GB.