Comments on: VMware ESX(i) and Solid State Drives (SSD) – Intel X25-M vs Samsung MMCRE64G5MXP-0VB

By: Kiwi Si

Kiwi Si — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:42:23 +0000

Hi Simmo,

Unfortunately not, at least not that I have seen or heard. It would be nice if it did as more of us are now beginning to run our small labs off of SSD.

Cheers,

Simon

By: Simmo

Simmo — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:32:27 +0000

Does anyone know if ESX/ESXi supports SSD TRIM yet? I love the speed of SSD but am obviously concerned about the drive slowing over time if there is no TRIM support. I understand that TRIM support was added to the Linux kernel in February this year (2.6.33).

Simmo

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By: James Pearce

James Pearce — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:41:50 +0000

Hi Simon – an interesting article.

I’ve been pondering on SSDs for vSwap for HP MLs series as the only support 8GB RAM after reading about it on vmware blogs at http://tinyurl.com/ydnkzrb – wondered if you’d tried this one like that?

By: Vladan

Vladan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:48:39 +0000

Hi Alex,

You can’t compare the capacity/price for now. Must think of IOps.. Check out this article on Chad’s blog:

http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/10/solid-state-disk-will-change-the-storage-world.html

Vladan

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