Good morning to everyone,
this is my first post and i'm not english-speaking, so i'll try to explain my question in the best way.
We are running esxi 5.1u1 on a small server with desktop components:
- i5-3570k [could get i5-3570 non-K]
- z77 motherboard (msi g43) [could get Q77 board from gigabyte]
- 16gb ram ddr3 1600mhz non-ecc
- 2xHDD western digital RED 2TB each, non-raid
- backup on NAS
and about 10vm between linux and windows hosts (usually only 6 are up for normal production[AD, FS, PBX), to manage a network of 4 workstations.
We are wondering to add a 120gbSATA3 SSD as caching, using build-in feature of ESXI 5.1u1, but we have a problem on choosing the correct disk configuration since we got only 2 sata3 ports.
- HDDs are sata3 and actually connected to the 2 sata3 ports (intel controller);
- we got other 4 sata2 ports on different build in controller;
- we can't afford a raid card at the moment;
- should we put the ssd on sata2 to benefit the cache speed, or the only way is sata3?
Thanks in advance.