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mealan
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Minimum ESX Partition Scheme

what is the break down of the minimum partition scheme for esx 3.5? I can't seem to locate the information anywhere?

Thank you so much!

Alan

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Texiwill
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Hello,

The recommended is to have 5GB for each partition /, /home, /tmp, /var, and /var/log, plus 200MB /boot and an appropriate sized swap partition. 100MB vmkcore and the rest for VMFS.

The 5GB size could be shrunk to at most 2GB I would say but you will need the others to keep / from filling up and most hardening guides recommend using the other partitions as well.


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Edward L. Haletky
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mealan
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Cool thank you, its for the VCP exam test I take today.

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Texiwill
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Hello,

This is the recommendation and best practice from a security view, which is a bit different. Read the Installation guide from VMware for their answer to this question.... I tend not to use the defaults on my installs.


Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009
====
Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.
Blue Gears and SearchVMware Pro Blogs -- Top Virtualization Security Links -- Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast

--
Edward L. Haletky
vExpert XIV: 2009-2023,
VMTN Community Moderator
vSphere Upgrade Saga: https://www.astroarch.com/blogs
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Texiwill
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naveen1701
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for exam point of view , check the study material and answer accodingly, any best answers other than that will be considered wrong......all the best.

Award points if my answer helps you.

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mealan
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passed with an 84, thanks everyone!

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