what is the break down of the minimum partition scheme for esx 3.5? I can't seem to locate the information anywhere?
Thank you so much!
Alan
Hello,
The recommended is to have 5GB for each partition /, /home, /tmp, /var, and /var/log, plus 200MB /boot and an appropriate sized swap partition. 100MB vmkcore and the rest for VMFS.
The 5GB size could be shrunk to at most 2GB I would say but you will need the others to keep / from filling up and most hardening guides recommend using the other partitions as well.
Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009
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Cool thank you, its for the VCP exam test I take today.
Hello,
This is the recommendation and best practice from a security view, which is a bit different. Read the Installation guide from VMware for their answer to this question.... I tend not to use the defaults on my installs.
Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009
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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.
Blue Gears and SearchVMware Pro Blogs -- Top Virtualization Security Links -- Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast
for exam point of view , check the study material and answer accodingly, any best answers other than that will be considered wrong......all the best.
Award points if my answer helps you.
passed with an 84, thanks everyone!