Was the SC/COS a virtual machines in earlier ESX?

[rickardnobel]

Just a quick questions, has the Service Console always been a virtual machine with a local vmdk file or was different in earlier versions of ESX?

[AntonVZhbankov · Accepted solution]

SC/COS was a virtual machine before ESX4, but only in 4.0 it was placed in vmdk file.

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[rickardnobel]

It had its own partitions directly on the host disk?

[AntonVZhbankov]

On boot disk, to be exact. It was possible to install ESX to SAN partition while physical server had no disks at all.

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[rickardnobel]

Thanks for taking the time to answers my questions!

On boot disk, to be exact.

Is that the boot hard disk or the partition called /boot which if I remember correctly is the first partition on the host disk in ESX 4?

[AndreTheGiant]

Is that the boot hard disk or the partition called /boot which if I remember correctly is the first partition on the host disk in ESX 4?

The boot partition is the one with the COS kernel, initrd and boot stuffs (the COS it a modified Linux distro).

Is still physical also in ESX 4.x.

Other partitions are now partition of a vmdk file.

Andre

[rickardnobel]

Is that the boot hard disk or the partition called /boot which if I remember correctly is the first partition on the host disk in ESX 4?

The boot partition is the one with the COS kernel, initrd and boot stuffs (the COS it a modified Linux distro).

Is still physical also in ESX 4.x.

But in earlier ESX the SC/COS partitions were ordinary partitions aside with the /boot, vmkcore and others?

The /boot partition is a part of the COS/SC filesystem then?

[AndreTheGiant]

On ESX 3.x you have some partitions (/boot, /, /var/log, ...) and if you want a VMFS partition (you can add it later...).

On ESX 4.x you have the /boot and the VMFS partitions... the VMFS partition has the other COS filesystems.

Andre

[rickardnobel]

Nice, thanks.