It appears some BIOS updates and/or UEFI settings changes may be needed to (hopefully) allow this Optane drive to become 'visible' to VMware ESXi in my Xeon D server. You may recall that Intel's DC S3700 Series (DC for DataCenter) was followed up by the Intel 750 Series aimed at enthusiasts/consumers.

Note that there is likely to be a more consumer focused version of this product coming soon, featuring both a lower price and an appropriate warranty policy.

I plan to update this article when I have those measurements.

I hope to look at general VMFS performance characteristics when used with VMware ESXi 6.5 Update 1.

I want to have a look at the driver install under VMware and under Windows Server 2016.

I also plan check out temperatures using my FLIR ONE Thermal Imaging camera.

Not as fancy or precise as PC Perspective's measurement rig, but a good start.

I can't wait to make some rough measurements of power use in watts, at idle and under load, using with my Ubiquiti mPower Pro power strip.

Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X Series can be ultra fast vSAN cache, storage, or RHEL/SLES 8x memory extender using Intel Memory Drive Technology.

So tantalizing! My recent article title sums its capabilities up as succinctly as I could: I've been writing about 3D XPoint, which Intel dubs Optane, since February of 2016.

Paul Braren and Allyn Malventano discuss NAND SSD's rough start, M.2 NVMe, and how 3D XPoint will get even faster.

While many of us have been enjoying the benefits of NAND-based flash memory for nearly a decade now, the limits of what NAND can handle in terms of write speed and endurance have been increasingly obvious lately. I'm very glad to have this chance to tinker with new tech, again! I was even lucky enough to get a look at the early days of PCIe NVMe heralded by the Intel 750 Series back in 2015. If you've followed TinkerTry for a while, you'll know that I'm always happy to get my hands on something new, such as the world's first Intel Xeon D-1541 and Xeon D-1567 SuperServers, and the very first SYS-E300-8D and SYS-E200-8D SuperServers. Such an opportunity doesn't come along often. The loaner P4800X was returned to Intel in October 2017. Efficient virtualization, storage, backup, and more.

This loaner was made with no formal expectations or stipulations, just a brief chance to TinkerTry this datacenter technology in my own VMware vSphere home lab, in line with this site's tagline - TinkerTry IT home. This SSD is on a temporary loan from Intel, and it appears to be an engineering sample, in the 375GB size that is planned for product launch. Posted by Paul Braren on (updated on Jan 8 2018) in

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