ForvSAN ESA (Express Storage Architecture), minimum requirements differ from OSA:
25GbE NICsare required to handle high-performance traffic. (C)
NVMe PCIe flash devicesmust be used for storage. (D)
128GB Memory minimumper host is required. (F)
Other options:
A. 10GbE→ Only supported in vSAN OSA, not ESA.
B. 256GB Memory→ Recommended for large workloads, not minimum.
E. SAS SSDs→ Not supported in ESA; NVMe required.
[References:, VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 –vSAN ESA Hardware Requirements, VMware Docs: vSAN ESA Deployment Requirements, ]
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