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ESXi 5.5 on 32GB SD card issue?

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I just finished installing ESXi 5.5 U1 on 4 HP DL380 G8 with only a 32GB SD card (no hard drives) and after the install I check the disk space with DF -H and it seems that the ESXi installation did not format the partitions to use all of the available 32GB space on the SD card.  See the attach screenshot that shows only 3 partitions in sizes of 250MB, 250MB, and 285MB.  What happen to the rest of the space?  Is this normal as all 4 host showed the same thing?  This is the first time I've installed on a SD card so I don't if it normal or if I missed something during the install.

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ESXi will not create partitions for "high traffic" (e.g. Scratch partitions or VMFS datastores) on SD/USB devices, but will only create the required partitions for the Hypervisor and core dumps. The df command doesn't show all the partitions, and you may want to use the partedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/DeviceName" command to list them (see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1036609 for details).

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ESXi will not create partitions for "high traffic" (e.g. Scratch partitions or VMFS datastores) on SD/USB devices, but will only create the required partitions for the Hypervisor and core dumps. The df command doesn't show all the partitions, and you may want to use the partedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/DeviceName" command to list them (see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1036609 for details).

André

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Now my question is should I be concern about applying patches via VUM to these host since there are less than 100MB free on each of the partition?  Is there even enough free space to apply future patches?

I've moved the scratch location to persistent storage so I got that part covered.  Do you know if that is the location VUM will use to stage and remediate from?

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Staged patches are not stored on the USB/SD device, but in the scratch partition/location. See http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vSphere-5-ESXi-Operations-Guide.pdf (page 8 - ESXi Scratch Partition)

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Thank you Andre.  Your answers were very helpful.

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