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My Big apologies if this has been covered but I could not find it.
I have an ESXI server with both Windows and Unbuntu on it.
The system has 10 SATA hd’s and I am thinking of having them in hot swap bays would esxi work ok if I removed a drive and put in replacement drive let’s say if the first drive needed to be updated or replaced
You understand that hot swap doesn't work unless you have RAID? Windows and Ubuntu clients are ok if virtual disk is ok. Virtual disk is ok if RAID is ok. RAID is ok if it is pure hardware on the motherboard or software supported by ESXi. So figure out the RAID configuration first.
Hotswap is possible and safety on RAID configurations only in depth the RAID 10 is better. Since in RAID 10 there should be no data loss while hotswap and the RAID rebuilds as fast as according to the host machine performance.
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