A SERVICE OF

logo

VMware, Inc. 95
A
ESX Serverhostshaverequiredandoptionalpartitions.
Thisappendixcontainsthefollowingtopics:
“RequiredPartitions”onpage 95
“OptionalPartitions”onpage 99
Required Partitions
AnESX Serverlocalbootvolumerequiresthreespecificpartitionsforoperation.In
addition,alocalorremoteVMFSpartitionisrequiredtostoreyourvirtualmachines,
anda vmkcore partitionisrequiredtoprovidecoredumpsfortechnicalsupport.
For/var/log,VMwarerecommendsaseparatepartitiontopreventunexpecteddisk
spaceconstraints
fromcompromisingESXServeroperations.Increasethispartitionby
512MBifyouuseKickstart,ortoperformaremoteorscriptedinstallationfromtheESX
Servermachine.
ESX Server Partitioning
A