9Dec/080
Partitioning VMware ESX 3.5
I recently started working with VMware ESX 3.5 and did my first implementation for a medium size company. Since I was/am no expert in VMware I decided to call VMware support to get their recommendations on partion configurations. Since VMware ESX 3.5 uses very little space for the installation two small (73GB) 15,000RPM SAS drives in a RAID 1 set are ideal. VMware suggested using 10GB for / 10GB for /var 1GB for swap and the remaining space for a vmfs3 partiton to store data on. Because virtual machines will reside on the SAN this data partition could be used for things like ISO images or other data.
