Dell 2.12 manual Recommended Local Disk Partitioning

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Utility Partition

New Dell Servers ship with the Dell Utility Partition (UP) pre-installed. The UP is a bootable disk partition that contains Dell diagnostic utilities and other software useful in maintaining the hardware. It is accessed by pressing the <F10> key at system boot time. Dell recommends that you keep the UP on your ESX Server system. If the UP has been deleted, it can be restored using the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD-ROM. For more information, see www.dell.com/openmanage.

NOTE: It is recommended to run the Memory Diagnostic test found in the Utility Partition before the installation of ESX Server software.

Recommended Local Disk Partitioning

The following table lists the recommended local disk partitioning for the ESX Server system. When installing the ESX Server system choose the Manual Partitioning option and use the following table to create the local disk partitions.

Table 1-5. Suggested Disk Partitioning within VMware ESX Server

Mount Point	Type	Recommended	Notes
		Size
(none)	vfat	31 MB	Holds the Utility
			Partition. Created using
			Dell OpenManage Server
			Assistant CD-ROM.
/boot	ext3	50 MB	Holds the boot kernel
			image.
swap	swap	2 * Service	This is the swap partition
		Console Memory	for the Service Console
			only and NOT the swap
			file for the ESX Server
			software.
/	ext3	4 GB	Holds the Service
			Console and VMware
			ESX Server kernel.

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