In doing an upgrade from 3.5 to 4.0 using the Host Update Utility, it asks for the size of the service console disk size. It defaults to 8.3GB in size. I have 140GB free. Is there any advantage or need to make this setting bigger? What exactly is that asking? Can someone explain?
Thanks.
Hi,
8.3GB is the size of cos vmdk file. Starting vSphere 4.0, ESX runs of a virtual disk -- much like a VM, not physical partitions. So if you have 140GB, only 8.3GB will be consumed by ESX cos vmdk. The rest can be used as a datastore for storing VMs or any other data.
Thanks for explaining that.
I did make it a big bigger, but from the sound of it, there really isn't any advantage to making it larger than 8.4GB? Is that true?
No real advantage.
And you only waste your VMFS space.
Only if you plan to install other tools, like Dell Open Manage, could be a reason to increase a little this size.
