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  • 1.  VMFSL partition taking 50% of disk space

    Posted Apr 29, 2020 09:17 PM

    Hi all,

    I have just installed ESXi v7 free version to see how it works and the first thing I have realised is that VMFSL partition takes 50% of my drive leaving too little room for VMs. Can it be shrinked? Have i done anything wrong? what do you recommend?



  • 2.  RE: VMFSL partition taking 50% of disk space

    Posted Apr 30, 2020 04:12 PM

    Welcome to the Community,

    that's by design, but please don't ask me why. I'd really love to understand this myself.

    Anyway, what you can do is to install ESXi 6.7, and then upgrade to ESXi 7.0.

    André



  • 3.  RE: VMFSL partition taking 50% of disk space

    Posted May 03, 2020 10:33 AM

    @ Chris_Redz​

    Here's a new blog post regarding the OSDATA (VMFSL) partition size: https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2020/05/changing-the-default-size-of-the-esx-osdata-volume-in-esxi-7-0.html

    André



  • 4.  RE: VMFSL partition taking 50% of disk space

    Posted Dec 20, 2021 09:44 PM

    Great solution, works fine.



  • 5.  RE: VMFSL partition taking 50% of disk space

    Posted Aug 15, 2021 05:42 AM

    Just wanted to add that it's 119.9 GB regardless of drive size, so it's 119.9GB on a 240GB drive as well as a 1TB drive. It just happens to be 50% for you.