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    <title>topic Scratch Space Solutions in ESXi Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Scratch-Space-Solutions/m-p/444328#M36486</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hey all, it's been a while - hope all is well!&amp;nbsp; I'm looking for some insight on a scratch space solution.&amp;nbsp; I have blades with 64GB mirrored SDs and using them to boot locally.&amp;nbsp; I have storage arrays at my disposal, but I'd prefer to keep it local, since the SDs are mirrored and they are so big. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Since 6.5 doesn't show the local OS as a datastore - any directory I create there doesn't persist of course.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2017 19:45:20 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>barnette08</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2017-10-09T19:45:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Scratch Space Solutions</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Scratch-Space-Solutions/m-p/444328#M36486</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hey all, it's been a while - hope all is well!&amp;nbsp; I'm looking for some insight on a scratch space solution.&amp;nbsp; I have blades with 64GB mirrored SDs and using them to boot locally.&amp;nbsp; I have storage arrays at my disposal, but I'd prefer to keep it local, since the SDs are mirrored and they are so big. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Since 6.5 doesn't show the local OS as a datastore - any directory I create there doesn't persist of course.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2017 19:45:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>barnette08</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-10-09T19:45:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Scratch Space Solutions</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Scratch-Space-Solutions/m-p/444329#M36487</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Scratch partition is created automatically when you install ESXi. Why do you need to configure it manually?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:31:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Scratch-Space-Solutions/m-p/444329#M36487</guid>
      <dc:creator>Nick_Andreev</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-10-11T09:31:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Scratch Space Solutions</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Scratch-Space-Solutions/m-p/444330#M36488</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'Bitstream Vera Sans'; font-size: 12px;"&gt;These are two examples where scratch space may not be automatically defined on persistent storage. In each case, the temporary scratch location is configured on a ramdisk:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;ESXi deployed on a Flash or SD device, including a USB key. Scratch partitions are not created on Flash or SD storage devices even if connected during install, &lt;STRONG&gt;due to the potentially limited read/write cycles available.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;See &lt;A href="https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1033696" title="https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1033696"&gt;Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 4.x/5.x/6.x (1033696) | VMware KB&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;/Rubeck&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:58:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Rubeck</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-10-11T10:58:08Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Scratch Space Solutions</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Scratch-Space-Solutions/m-p/444331#M36489</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Yea...I know how to do it, I guess I was just more probing to see what others in this situation are doing.&amp;nbsp; creating a dedicated datastore and adding directories for each host? Using separate data stores for each host? Etc, etc.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:20:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Scratch-Space-Solutions/m-p/444331#M36489</guid>
      <dc:creator>barnette08</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-10-12T00:20:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Scratch Space Solutions</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Scratch-Space-Solutions/m-p/444332#M36490</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have been in this spot before with UCS blades booting from SD cards.&amp;nbsp; I ended up creating a single datastore on FC storage with a folder for each ESX host.&amp;nbsp; I scripted the folder creation and used host profiles to ensure the scratch was configured on new provisioned hosts.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:17:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Scratch-Space-Solutions/m-p/444332#M36490</guid>
      <dc:creator>hendersp3</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-10-12T15:17:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Scratch Space Solutions</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Scratch-Space-Solutions/m-p/444333#M36491</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;That's the approach we ended up taking as well.&amp;nbsp; Would you be willing to the script?&amp;nbsp; I don't use host profiles but I should be able to work around that within the script.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:15:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Scratch-Space-Solutions/m-p/444333#M36491</guid>
      <dc:creator>barnette08</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-10-12T19:15:27Z</dc:date>
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