Partitioning VMWare ESX Server 3.5 during installation

There are many ways to partition ESX during installing. ESX has its own default configuration if you are not familiar with partitioning or you can edit the configuration yourself.

Here is a recommended partitioning scheme for ESX newbies.

NEW PARTITIONING SCHEME

Mount Point Primary Size(MB Notes
/(root) Yes 10240 Holds the Service Console and ESX Server kernel
/boot Yes 250 Holds the boot kernel image
swap Yes 1600 This is for the Service Console only and not for the ESX Server software
/var/log No 4096 Holds the log files
vmkcore No 102 Holds the core dump file for the VMkernel
VMFS No Any Remaining Disk Holds the configuration and disk files for the virtual machines

Remember this is only a recommendation and the partitioning scheme will be different depending on specific needs.

July 14, 2008 | Filed Under VMWare 

Comments

5 Responses to “Partitioning VMWare ESX Server 3.5 during installation”

  1. Rajeev Sharma on February 6th, 2009 1:57 am

    if i want to attach another scsi drive on vmware server, and want to make whole disk VMFS, can it be possible. on which folder i should mount the new partition??

  2. John on February 6th, 2009 2:13 am

    You can add another drive to your RAID configuration but you will need to use vmkfstools to configure the partition.

  3. DHRUV ARYA on February 25th, 2009 4:55 am

    1. I have trying to setup domain controller, and other Windows 2003 server machines, but they have been creating lot of problems. Such as the machine joins the domain, but then the domain users are unable to logon the member server.

    2. Have been trying to setup the SPS 2006 on the Virtual machine, but it has been a total failure. Where as I have setup the SPS on the standalone machine successfully.

    Please help!

  4. Mistakeman on March 24th, 2009 7:35 pm

    The mount point is /var/log, not /log/var !!

  5. Neil on May 4th, 2009 11:36 pm

    DHRUV ARYA:

    what does that have to do with partitioning?
    RTFM or take a course ! And btw do you have vmware tools install in your guest OS

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