NVMe Storage Server for Virtual Machines and Self-hosting services in vSAN, failures, etc

If you are planning on building a new storage server or virtualization server to run multiple virtual machines in your home lab environment, NVMe storage is a great option that offers super fast performance and has drastically come down in price over the past couple of years. It provides an excellent mix of performance and cost for dense home lab workloads and self-hosting services. In this video I give you my real-world experience and thoughts on running NVMe storage in my home lab environment over the past few years. Subscribe to the channel:    / @virtualizationhowto   My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media:   / vspinmaster   LinkedIn:   / brandon-lee-vht   Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction around storage in the home lab and production environments - 0:00 Storage a crucial part of the performance formula - 0:45 What exactly is NVMe? 1:36 No need for a storage controller - 2:00 Specs of NVMe - 2:25 Description of my home lab environment and Supermicro servers - 3:05 Looking at the configuration of my vSAN cluster and NVMe drive configuration - 3:52 Viewing the disks in the vSAN disk group - 4:25 Looking at the NVMe drives used for the vSAN cache and capacity tiers - 5:40 Looking at NVMe consumer grade drive failures and do I recommend? - 6:40 My methodology for replacing NVMe drive failures - 7:20 Recommendation to use NVMe storage, running leaner from memory perspective - 8:36 NVMe is my recommendation for home lab storage - 9:20 How do you fit multiple NVMe drives inside a low-profile small form factor servers? - 10:05 Wrapping up thoughts on NVMe storage for home lab environments and low cost solution - 11:35 Take a look at my recent write up on NVMe server for vSAN virtual machines here: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2...