Running ESXi on a Raspberry Pi: Installing VMware ESXi on Raspberry Pi 4 to run Linux virtual machines

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022

T. Fenton, P. KennedyRunning ESXi on a Raspberry Pihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7465-1_10

10. Testing Storage Performance

Thomas Fenton¹   and Patrick Kennedy²

(1)

Ridgefield, WA, USA

(2)

Austin, TX, USA

 

So far in this book, we have used both local and network storage with ESXi. At this point, you may be asking yourself what to use for storage – and it should come as no surprise that there are far too many variables for me to give a blanket or definitive answer.

For instance, you may have a slow USB drive that you are using for your local storage, or you may have a congested or unreliable network that is causing issues with your NFS storage. On the other ...