Reference Guide

Deployment best practices

Virtual disk provisioning

Dell EMC recommends using thin provisioning disks in an XC Series environment, as thick eager-zero virtual disks offer no performance

benefits over a thin virtual disk.

For further information, see Nutanix KB 1591 (Log in required).

SYSLOG

Except for VMware NSX implementations, the configuration of a remote SYSLOG server is not an absolute requirement; however, there

are benefits and use cases for such an implementation. For example:

• Central monitoring of ESXi hosts.

• Persistent logging in situations where the boot device becomes inaccessible or read-only.

See VMware KB 2003322 for detailed information on SYSLOG configuration.

NOTE:

Dell EMC does not recommend moving the ESXi scratch partition to Nutanix NFS, as this may become

inaccessible in the event of a cluster stop event.

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