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Will Marcouiller
Asked: 2013-11-24 07:11:03 +0800 CST

How shall I set up my ESX Server 3 partitions?

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I have rebuilt my IBM x360 server.

Now, I am reinstalling my VMware ESX Server 3 on it, and I have the following drive arrays:

  1. Array A is set of 3 36GB U160 (directly on server, channel 1 of my IBM ServeRAID 6M)
  2. Array B is set of 6 146GB U320 (on my EXP300)

  3. Array C is set of 2 73GB U320 (on my EXP300)

    • Array A is RAID 5.
    • Array B is RAID 5EE.
    • Array C is RAID 1.

Now, I'm at the step of configuring the partitions. I have found the following which seems to look good:

Planning Partitions for ESX Server 2.5 (1506)

Based on this knowledge base article, I thought of doing the following:

Mount Point | File System Type | Size(MB) | Add. Size Opt. | Force Primary Partition
      /boot        |           ext3              |  192MB    |     Fixed size      |             Select
       N/A         |           swap             |   384MB   |     Fixed size      |            Select
      /(root)      |           ext3               |  1800MB  |     Fixed size      |            Select
      /home      |           ext3               |  1800MB  |     Fixed size      |       Do not select
   /vmimages  |           ext3               | 10000MB |     Fixed size      |       Do not select
       N/A         |       vmkcore            |   100MB   |     Fixed size      |       Do not select
       N/A         |          vmfs2             |   RoDisk   |     Fill to max.     |       Do not select

  • Array A: /boot, N/A-swap, /(root) and /home
  • Array B: vmfs2
  • Array C: /vmimages

Are my partitioning intentions looking good?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This is unfortunate. The version of the software you're using and the age of the hardware you're using are old enough that it's difficult to give proper assistance and support...

    Sure, your partitioning plan is fine, but the larger problem is that you're deploying anew on antiquated equipment with end-of-life software.

    It is time to plan for an upgrade. Systems dating back to 2007 are capable of running the current revisions of VMware, so I'd strongly advise investing or making the case for more current equipment.

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