vShere File System Layout/Partitions

[kcarlile]

Anyone have any recommendations on how to set up the filesystem under vSphere? For 3.0/3.5, I went with the recommendations (mostly) in Edward Haletky's VMware Planning book. I'm planning on building my vSphere servers on new hardware, so I'm curious whether these recommendations still apply.

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

here is a great recommendation

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/05/27/partitioning-your-esx-host-part-ii/

[kcarlile]

Works for me. Thanks!

[azn2kew]

For vSphere installation, you can have a choice to create two different VMFS if you want, one VMFS for all the VMFS the other is for the installation files and SC vmdk.

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Stefan Nguyen

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iGeek Systems Inc.

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Remember that many of the security tools out there require you to have a separate /home and /tmp partitions and some actually require a separate /var (not just /var/log).

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