vSAN ESA Minimum RAM for Your Homelab
Figuring out the vsan esa minimum ram homelab requirements is usually the first hurdle anyone faces when they decide to move away from the older vSAN Original Storage Architecture (OSA). It's not just about wanting the latest and greatest; Broadcom has fundamentally changed how vSAN handles data with the Express Storage Architecture (ESA), and that comes with a pretty significant "RAM tax." If you've been running a lab on old Optiplexes or NUCs with 16GB of RAM, I have some bad news: those days are pretty much over if you want to play with ESA. ...