Wondering if anyone can shed any light on the requirements for ESXi v5.1 upgrade.
I understand /boot needs to be a minimum of 1GB in size,
but I cannot find any easy way of determining how large /boot is on my existing 5.0 servers.
I ran a console session and checked out 'df -u' (?) and similar but couldn't make much headway.
I can see all my SAN LUNs okay and some local disk objects, but nothing showing /boot as a name.
My hosts were originally configured identically back at version ESXi 4.0,
then were upgraded to v4.1 and then last year up to v5.0 U1.
does
du -sh /boot
work?
hope this helps
~Sai Garimella
Where did you see this requirement? Please take a look at e.g. http://rickardnobel.se/esxi-5-0-partitions/ to see what's really required. Afaik there's no difference between ESXi 5.0 and 5.1.
André
The requirement for a 1GB boot device is here:
"Installing ESXi 5.1 requires a boot device that is a minimum of 1GB in size."
I wasn't aware that this was also a requirement for 5.0 which is why I was trying to validate my current build (which had progressed from 4.0 to 4.1 to 5.0 and hopefully now 5.1).
So its probably OK ...
I tried logging in via PuTTY and ran "du -sh /boot" and various combinations including /bootbank and so on, but didn't seem to give me what I wanted.
Maybe booting the server using a 'gparted' live CD or similar tool might be the only way to get this info?
Unless you initially installed the host with ESXi 3.5, the partitions are ok for 5.1. To list the partitions run e.g. fdisk -lu.
André
Hi
Welcome to the communities.
Hope below ling will help you .
http://www.virtualizetips.com/2012/04/05/vsphere-esxi-5-upgrade-or-install-how-to-steps/
I followed through and booted up one of the physical hosts with a 'gparted' .ISO and found the following (and I assume that /dev/sda1 extended partition is in fact the boot partition):
Device Name Filesystem Description Size
----------- ---------- ----------- -----
/dev/sda4 FAT16 4MB
/dev/sda1 extended 896MB
/dev/sda5 FAT16 Hypervisor1 250MB
/dev/sda6 FAT16 Hypervisor2 250MB
/dev/sda7 unknown 110MB
/dev/sda8 FAT16 Hypervisor3 286MB
/dev/sda2 FAT16 4GB
/dev/sda3 unknown 63GB
Actually it's the (/dev/sda4) partition which is the boot partition. The 1GB requirement is for all system partitions - the first 5 partitions - together (see the link about partitioning I posted earlier).
André