Hi I'm not really a network guy (I'm a dev). I'm playing around setting up a used Dell R710 as an ESXI server in the office for testing and development. We use VirtualBox for our local development environment and wanted to experiment with keeping the Virtual Machines on ISCSI drives over Cat 6. The idea being they will be easier to work with from different parts of the office and be easier to manage than an external drive.
I do have a Synology ds216j which we could attach but it has mechanical drives so I am assuming it will be quite slow.
So my questions are:
- Is this a viable idea - I've read some people doing it so it seems possible.
- Am I missing a more obvious feature (perhaps baked into ESXI) that I just don't know enough to Google?
Cheers, Chris.