Starting new with SUSE host OS - best partitioning for host

[oliver_reid]

My machine has 4 600gb drives in 2 RAID 1 pairs

Plan to use Open SUSE as the host OS -- not installed yet.

I plan to use Workstation to set up quite powerful Windows Server 2012 SE VMS and some smaller LAMP VMs

What partinioning scheme should I set up?

The system has 96GB ram and two X5690's

I am thinking

--30 GB for SUSE

--100GB for swap space --- but do  I need that at the host level or does Workstation handle that with the space allocated to each VM?

(I plan to be conservative with memory overcommitment)

---Leave the rest unpartitioned for now.

I am a newbie at all this so any guidance would be helpful.

[weinstein5]

Welcome to the Community - Each VM will have its own swap space that will stored in the Virtual Disk file - the SUSE O/S will also needs its own swap -

[oliver_reid]

Thanks -- How much swap space for SUSE?

[weinstein5]

I have not set up Linux in a long time but I always used the rule of thumb that system Swap should twice the size of memory installed -

[oliver_reid]

Thanks but most of the memory installed (96gb) is for the VM's to use and they have their own swap space. SUSE itself runs in about 2GB .WOrksation overhead  - maybe another 2GB ?

I have set the swap disk at 20 GB

Doe anyone see an issue there?