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  • 1.  Minimum physical disk size for vSphere.

    Posted Oct 23, 2009 12:36 PM

    I'm buy a new server that only comes with solid state disks, is a 32GB disk big enough for the installation of vSphere.

    The VM's will be held on an iSCSI san.

    Thanks

    Tim



  • 2.  RE: Minimum physical disk size for vSphere.

    Posted Oct 23, 2009 12:42 PM

    32GB is easily enough. Take a look at the ESX and vCenter Installation guide - page 61 for partition information - which can be found here

    Thanks,

    Neil



  • 3.  RE: Minimum physical disk size for vSphere.
    Best Answer

    Posted Oct 23, 2009 12:50 PM

    I believe the minimum size of the Service Console VMDK (which is now stored on a VMFS partition) is something less than 10GB. Maybe 8GB or so. I think you'll be fine with 32GB SSD for the installation of ESX.



  • 4.  RE: Minimum physical disk size for vSphere.

    Posted Oct 23, 2009 12:54 PM

    esxconsole.vmdk is about 8GB so you are ok with 32GB. 15Gb is sufficient :smileywink: