About The Esxconsole.vmdk; Options For Accessing The Installation Media, Booting The Installer, And Running The Installer - VMware ESX 4.0 - INSTALLATION GUIDE UPDATE 1 Installation Manual

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About the esxconsole.vmdk

A virtual machine disk file (
can be accessed in the same way as a physical hard disk.
In ESX 4.0, the service console's partitions are stored in a
, and all the optional partitions. The name of this file is
log
All files, including the
.vmdk
C Do not change the name or directory path of the
AUTION
folder or the VMDK file, the ESX host cannot reboot. VMware recommends that you allow only administrators
to modify datastores and make certain that users who have permission to modify datastores are aware of the
problems that occur when the
The
<system-uuid>
esxconsole-
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esxconsole-flat.vmdk
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esxconsole.vmdk
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core-dumps
n
logs
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logs/sysboot-vmkernel-boot.log
n
logs/sysboot-dmesg-boot.log
n logs/sysboot-vmkernel-late.log
n
logs/sysboot-dmesg-late.log
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logs/sysboot.log
I The service console must be installed on a VMFS datastore that is resident on a host's local disk or
MPORTANT
on a SAN disk that is masked and zoned to that particular host only. The datastore cannot be shared between
hosts.
Options for Accessing the Installation Media, Booting the Installer, and
Running the Installer
When you install ESX, you have several options that allow you to customize the process to meet the needs of
your environment.
These options include how to store and access the installation media, how to boot the installer, and which
mode to use when you run the installer.
By default, when you boot the ESX installer from a DVD, the DVD uses the interactive graphical mode and
uses itself as the source of the installation media. You can modify the default installation process in the
following ways:
Storing and accessing the ESX installation media:
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DVD (default)
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FTP
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HTTP/HTTPS (HTTPS with a proxy server is not supported.)
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file) stores the contents of a virtual machine's hard disk drive. A
.vmdk
, are stored in VMFS volumes.
esxconsole.vmdk
<system-uuid>
esxconsole-
folder contains the following files and subdirectories:
file. These partitions include
.vmdk
<system-uuid> /esxconsole.vmdk
esxconsole-
file. If you rename the esxconsole
esxconsole.vmdk
folder or the
esxconsole.vmdk
file
.vmdk
, ,
/ swap /var/
.
file is renamed.
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