ESX 4.0 Installation / Partition Question

[nicholas1982]

Hi, in the past with ESX 3.5 I manually created partitions for my ESX 3.5 installation based on best practices.

These installations took place on a 15GB solid state drive.

My question is now with ESX 4.0 installing on VMFS should I be changing or creating any of the default partitions.

Does anyone have some best practices I should use for a fresh build of ESX 4.0 on the 15GB drive?

Regards

Nicholas

[Troy_Clavell]

here's a good recommendation to follow, although with a 15GB drive you may have to adjust your partition sizes

Primary:
/     - 5120MB
Swap  - 1600MB
Extended Partition:
/var  - 4096MB
/home - 2048MB
/opt  - 2048MB
/tmp  - 2048MB

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Moved to the vSphere Upgrade and Install forum.

Best regards,

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