Which boot device is supported for the vSAN ESXi nodes for this customer?

A customer is planning to deploy a vSAN cluster to host their in-house distributed ERP system.

The hardware specifications for their server nodes include:

* 2 x Intel Xeon CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz

* 1TB memory

Which boot device is supported for the vSAN ESXi nodes for this customer?
A . A 16GB single-level cell (SLC) SATADOM device must be used.
B . A 4GB USB or SD device must be used.
C . A 16GB multiple-level cell (MLC) SATADOM device must be used.
D . ESXi Hosts must boot from a PMEM device.

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Answer: A

Explanation:

If the memory of the ESXi host has 512 GB of memory or less, you can boot the host from a USB, SD, or SATADOM device. If the memory of the ESXi host has more than 512 GB, consider the following guidelines. • You can boot the host from a SATADOM or disk device with a size of at least 16 GB. When you use a SATADOM device, use a single-level cell (SLC) device.

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