Minimum partition size requirements for ESX ESXi 4.1

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Hello.   I thought I’d whip up a quick table to show the minimum recommended partition sizes for ESX/i 4.1 and just a brief overview of what each is about. /Boot
Ext3
1100MB /
Ext3
5GB None
Swap
600MB None
VMFS-3
Variable None
VMFS-3
1.2GB None
VMKCORE
100MB /Var/Log
Ext3
2GB the /Boot location is where all the files are stored in order for it to (your way ahead of me here)…. boot. The / location is where the root of the service console file system resides.  The next few enteries do not have a mount point per se and the first one in the list is the swap file (what the MS world calls virtual memory these days), This swap file is for the use of the service console (by the way you will see service console written as “SC” in quite a few places round the net). I shalRead More…

HA configuration errors on virtualised ESX ESXi

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If you are running a copy of workstation for your vsphere lab and you are encountering an error when trying to enable HA/DRS clusters then this is probably the issue. When you create a ESX vm, vmware workstation autocreates a vm with 2GB’s of ram which is the lowest amount you can get away with to boot the hypervisor. However in order for HA to work you will need a minimum of 2300megs of ram (2.3GB) so shutdown your ESX/i vm and up the ram by 300megs or more and you will find that HA/DRS works correctly!Read More…