

We recommend if someone was planning on using this as an ESXi box to go with 16GB of RAM right off the bat. As you’ll see later we started to need a bit more RAM. We weren’t planning on getting too crazy with the i3 so we only installed 8GB initially. Brent stated that RAM was important and recommended using Crucial 8GB Single DDR4 2133 Memory and we went with his suggestion. We switched from spinning disk to a KingSpec 64GB mSATA in our production deployment. Of a note, an mSATA is the preferable option due to the performance boost but also because of the heat that a spinning disk creates as well.

