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Chapter 7 Installing VMware ESX Server Software

Advanced Partitioning

Withadvancedormanualpartitioning,theinstallerliststhedriveswithexisting

partitionsandtheamountofavailablespace.Youmustcreateallpartitions,

determiningaspecificmountpoint,filesystem,andcapacity.

EachESX Serverhostrequiresfivespecificpartitions.Ifthehosthasnetworkstorage,

onlythefirstthreerequired

partitionsmustbeconfiguredonlocalstorage.

See “ESX ServerPartitioning”onpage 97fordescriptionsofrequiredandoptional

partitions.

FollowthisproceduretoselectAdvancedasapartitioningoptionin“Toinstall

ESX Server”onpage 84.Thisproceduredescribeshowtopartitionyourharddrive

usingmanualpartitioning.

To partition local storage

1 Selectavolumeon

whichtoinstalltheESX Serversoftware.

2TopreserveexistingVMFSpartitionswithexistingvirtualmachines,selectKeep

virtualmachinesandtheVMFS.

Thisusuallyappliesonlyifyouareinstallingontopofapreviousversionof

ESX Server.

3 SelectAdvancedpartitioningandclickNext(graphicalinstaller)orOK(text

installer).

Awarning

dialogboxappears.

4ClickYestocontinuewithyourpartitioningselection.

5Tocreateapartition,clickNew.

TheAddPartitiondialogboxappears.

6Tocreateabootpartition,usethefollowingsettings:

 MountPoint–/boot

 FileSystem–ext3

 Size(MB)–VMwarerecommends100MB

 AdditionalSizeOptions–Fixedsize