Comments on: Partitioning ESX during installations http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/09/29/partitioning-esx-during-installations/ Building blocks for virtualization... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:16:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ricardo http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/09/29/partitioning-esx-during-installations/comment-page-1/#comment-1196 Ricardo Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:23:20 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=584#comment-1196 I allways give a little more space to some partitions that I know it'll grow, because i had some problems in the past with *nix systems and partitions getting full... /var/ more space / a little more space And because most of the times I dont use local storage on my ESXs ... so why leave some space on the disk that is not used anyways. I allways give a little more space to some partitions that I know it’ll grow, because i had some problems in the past with *nix systems and partitions getting full…

/var/ more space
/ a little more space

And because most of the times I dont use local storage on my ESXs … so why leave some space on the disk that is not used anyways.

]]> By: Sharninder http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/09/29/partitioning-esx-during-installations/comment-page-1/#comment-1192 Sharninder Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:19:39 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=584#comment-1192 yes, the dumps for ESX service console are stored in /var/core and its usually better to just have a seperate partition for /var (and /var/log .. if you're paranoid). Although the default esx server options are good too, unless you have specific requirements. yes, the dumps for ESX service console are stored in /var/core and its usually better to just have a seperate partition for /var (and /var/log .. if you’re paranoid).

Although the default esx server options are good too, unless you have specific requirements.

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