I am going to be installing to an HP server with an SD drive - it looks like the SD drive is maybe 4GB or so. Is there an optimal size for an ESXi boot drive?
I have heard that the boot drive should be large enough for some kind of temp file - vm temp, or esxi temp, or vmotion temp, or something like that.
What is best practice for this?
You can setup the scratch location in different ways. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1033696 for details.
André
it will be enough. have a look here: http://www.vcritical.com/2009/08/if-vmware-esxi-4-is-so-small-why-is-it-so-big/ also for the scratch partition it will be 4GB and it can be pointed to be stored elsewhere instead of the USB drive ..
4 GB could be enough.
I use 2 GB without issue.
Andre
A flash device just needs to be 1 GB in size. The remainder is not used. If you're installing to a hard drive then the installer will create a 4 GB scratch partition if there is space, but that is not the case for flash devices. You have to create the scratch partition on a datastore.
Dave
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Thank you very much, Dave
What is the procedure for creating the scratch partition? I have never seen where creating an OS partition was an option for ESXi - neither in the Vsphere client nor in the ESXi console. Is this something that has to be done from the cmd line on the console?
You can setup the scratch location in different ways. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1033696 for details.
André
thank you very much, everyone!