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[R2B]

In doing an upgrade from 3.5 to 4.0 using the Host Update Utility, it asks for the size of the service console disk size. It defaults to 8.3GB in size. I have 140GB free. Is there any advantage or need to make this setting bigger? What exactly is that asking? Can someone explain?

Thanks.

[novakk_AH]

Hi, I set to upgrade to 10 gigabytes should be to reserve disk space

for the Service Console then you can back up as the standard VM.

[admin]

Hi,

8.3GB is the size of cos vmdk file. Starting vSphere 4.0, ESX runs of a virtual disk -- much like a VM, not physical partitions. So if you have 140GB, only 8.3GB will be consumed by ESX cos vmdk. The rest can be used as a datastore for storing VMs or any other data.

[R2B]

Thanks for explaining that.

I did make it a big bigger, but from the sound of it, there really isn't any advantage to making it larger than 8.4GB? Is that true?

[novakk_AH]

Yes it is true

[AndreTheGiant]

No real advantage.

And you only waste your VMFS space.

Only if you plan to install other tools, like Dell Open Manage, could be a reason to increase a little this size.

Andre