On 8/27/2014 11:38 AM, Matt wrote:
I noticed that the Supermicro X9SCL has a USB type-a port right on the motherboard.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C202_C204/X9SCL.cfm
Has anyone used a port like this to boot the core OS and used the physical drives for OpenVZ and KVM containers? I figure a 64GB thumb drive would work. Anyone done this or will a USB thumb drive not stand up too the load? Seems much easier then using a SATA SSD drive but I imagine you still have to find a more durable USB drive.
works great with VMware ESXI, or FreeNAS... neither of those treats the boot device as a read/write file system. FreeNAS does have one master configuration file it updates when you make configuration changes, but no operational data is written to it.