Hi I have a question. I've created a Esxi environment with 1 x 1 TB SSD for Esxi Vm's. Besides that I have 3 x 8 TB + 1 x 6 TB + a IBM 1015 controller card.
I have just bought Unraid and want to make the most of it, so I have assigned the IBM1015 card to Unraid + the 4 drives. I want to add a cache drive also.
So my question is:
1. Should I take lets say 500 gb from the ESXi SSD to put in the cache drive in Unraid.
2. Should I buy a new 1 TB SSD to cache drive?
2a. If I buy the new drive. Should I pass it through on the IBM1015 card or would i be just as good to mount it to a SATA port on the motherboard and do the vmtools mount in Esxi?
The reason is that I only have 8 ports on the IBM1015 controller, so for future expansion I would like to save it. I had done the vmtools for a drive in Windows 10 VM, but on some files it became write protected, and when I took the drive out and mounted as USB the problem dissapeared, so is a little uncertain about it.
The cache drive should be used for dockers, Plex and DL.