Recoommended Partition size for ESX 4?

[vcpguy]

Hi, what will be the recommended partition size for ESX 4? I am going to use this in unattended installation.

Thanks

[DLeid]

Personal I would use 20GB, but at least double the minimum of 5GB to 10GB.

Just a thought - I sure you can spare the drive space

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[rManic]

I have defined the following partition scheme for my ESX infrastructure keeping future upgrade/patching in mind and also log file growth over long period.

if you ok with this you can also follow the same.

regards

Manic

[rManic]

if you ok with the above scheme

edit the your ks.cfg answer file to include the following

virtualdisk 'esxconsole' --size=25607 --onvmfs=''

part 'swap' --fstype=swap --size=1600 --maxsize=1600 --onvirtualdisk='esxconsole'

part '/var/log' --fstype=ext3 --size=4000 --maxsize=4000 --onvirtualdisk='esxconsole'

part '/' --fstype=ext3 --size=10000 --maxsize=10000 --onvirtualdisk='esxconsole'

part '/home' --fstype=ext3 --size=2000 --maxsize=2000 --onvirtualdisk='esxconsole'

part '/vmimages' --fstype=ext3 --size=4000 --maxsize=4000 --onvirtualdisk='esxconsole'

part '/tmp' --fstype=ext3 --size=4000 --maxsize=4000 --onvirtualdisk='esxconsole'

regards

Manic

[vcpguy]

This makes senses. But what about the partition alignment ?

[AnatolyVilchins]

Here you go please:

http://vmetc.com/2008/02/12/best-practices-for-esx-host-partitions/

iSCSI Software Support Department

[rManic]

mis-alignment is not a significant issue for the ESX operating system itself,

it is and can become a significant performance limiting problem on VMFS volumes where guest operating systems live.

Creating the VMFS partitions through Virtual Center or the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client after setup is complete will ensure that your VMFS partition is properly aligned.

So dedicate a LUN or Volume for VM's Datastore and create VMFS datastore after installation is completed

for more detail please reffer the following best pratices docs

http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/608

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere4.0.pdf

regards

Manic