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ESX Serverhostshaverequiredandoptionalpartitions.

Thisappendixcontainsthefollowingtopics:

 “RequiredPartitions”onpage 97

 “OptionalPartitions”onpage 101

Required Partitions

AnESX Serverlocalbootvolumerequiresthreespecificpartitionsforoperation.

Inaddition,alocalorremoteVMFSpartitionisrequiredtostoreyourvirtualmachines,

anda vmkcore partitionisrequiredtoprovidecoredumpsfortechnicalsupport.

For/var/log,VMwarerecommendsaseparatepartitiontopreventunexpecteddisk

spaceconstraints

fromcompromisingESXServeroperations.Increasethispartitionby

512MBifyouuseKickstart,ortoperformaremoteorscriptedinstallationfromthe

ESXServermachine.

ESX Server Partitioning