Laboratory VSAN with pizzaboxes with two bays?

Hello

I'm slightly older R300 servers Dell that I want to use a laboratory VSAN. Arrange it in two locations of drive and a RAID controller and I want to know if it is possible to use these for such a facility. I plan on keeping a 1 TB SAS drive in a slot and using a smaller SSD in the other, this configuration in a JBOD mode (in other words, doubt the controller supports true JBOD, so guess it'll be 'RAID-0 disk'). As I understand, ESXi must reside somewhere else, then maybe a USB pen drive?

Is this possible?

Thank you

To?

are there requirements on the size of the hdd/ssd?

Yes, you need SSD of at least 10% of the size of the HARD disk drives in your disk group. Let's say that your have 1 TB HDD to add in a disk group, to support you need at least 100 GB SSD or more.

How much space do I need for the root/ESXi?

8 GB should be enough. If it is USB flash storage, smaller will do. because there will be zero persistent created by default.

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