Duncan Epping has released a great post on how to partition your ESX 4.0 (vSphere) using scripting and the grafical installer<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.yellow-bricks.com\/2009\/05\/27\/partitioning-your-esx-host-part-ii\/<\/a><\/p>\n You cannot define the sizes of the \/boot, vmkcore, and \/vmfs partitions when you use the graphical or text installation modes. You can define these partition sizes when you do a scripted installation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The ESX boot disk requires 1.25GB of free space and includes the \/boot and vmkcore partitions. The \/boot partition alone requires 1100MB.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The vmcore is created automatically by the installer<\/p>\n Duncan Epping has released a great post on how to partition your ESX 4.0 (vSphere) using scripting and the grafical installer http:\/\/www.yellow-bricks.com\/2009\/05\/27\/partitioning-your-esx-host-part-ii\/ You cannot define the sizes of the \/boot, vmkcore, and \/vmfs partitions when you use the graphical or text installation modes. You can define these partition sizes when you do a scripted installation.\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[164,165,162,163,131],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esx-x","category-white-papers","tag-esc4","tag-esx-40","tag-partition","tag-partitioning","tag-vsphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Primary:
\n\/\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 - 5120MB
\nSwap\u00c2\u00a0 - 1600MB
\nExtended Partition:
\n\/var\u00c2\u00a0 - 4096MB
\n\/home - 2048MB
\n\/opt\u00c2\u00a0 - 2048MB
\n\/tmp\u00c2\u00a0 - 2048MB<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"