VMFS or Passthrough - for storage for the 2012 Windows spaces

Dear community,

Running the last 5.5 ESXi, I don't know how to set up my storage.

I have the opportunity to use a controller to 8 ports SAS as passthrough, directly to my Windows Server 2012 VM, storage running. This option makes the controller unusable for any other virtual machine, as my server from 2012.

There fore I however just about (vmdk) disks do 'normal' virtual and using storage in Windows 2012. This would be more versatile I could use all drives on the controller for the other virtual machines as well. However, I can't find the pros and cons on this option.

I'm looking for so the community here direct advice, VMDK files or passthrough, for Windows Server 2012 with storage spaces.

Thank you for any response.

Best regards

Jim

I always go with VMFS on IO DirectPath (passthrough) unless there is a reason to not. DirectPath IO offers a little less latency / fees generals but you offer a lot of flexibility that VMware can offer you. So in your case, when there is no particular requirement, I would go with VMFS. 64 TB VMDK and WS 2012 are also supported by ESXi 5.5 that is not a reason to go with passthrough either.

Also note that when you use passthrough, and you run ESXi in this same controller (not via a USB stick or something like that), it might not even work or you can run into strange problems. One of my colleagues said a hub USB all in passthrough mode, resulting in a USB keyboard no longer works in the console VMware (DCUI). Then I would certainly be careful with this configuration.

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