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OWC Ministack by storkinsj in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

[-] storkinsj@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like no one is doing this yet. I'm checking in with their engineering team. I'll post back when I get a solid answer and/or I've tried it.

OWC Ministack by storkinsj in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

[-] storkinsj@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yes sorry that's the one I'm looking at. Have you used it with ESXi?

By the way it's offered with no internal drives and that's what I am planning to get. I already have the storage I'd like to put in there.

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OWC Ministack (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by storkinsj@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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Has anyone successfully used this with ESXi?
https://www.owc.com/solutions/ministack

My Mini is in agony with a thunderbolt 10gbe adapter and 2 NVME M2 storage adaptors. They are hot to the touch and imagine how hot the mini is with its power supply doing all the work.

I have a free thunderbolt port. If I add another ethernet adaptor OR the other storage adaptor, it doesn't work . If I unplug something else it works. So I have definitely maxed the power on the mini.

If this worked it would not only be a nice housing for both the caching tier and storage tier for vsan, but it would also act as a powered thunderbolt "hub".

I would be really excited to hear if anyone else has successfully used this with esxi 7 or newer.