VMware ESX 4.0 - INSTALLATION GUIDE UPDATE 1 Installation Manual page 43

15 Select a setup option.
Option
Standard Setup
Advanced Setup
16 Select a location to install ESX and click Next.
N With ESX 4.0 Update 1 and later if you have ESX installation and VMFS partition on the same disk
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or LUN you have an option to retain the VMFS volume.
Installing ESX on a USB device is not supported.
17 In the dialog box that appears with an option to retain the existing VMFS volume, click OK.
If you are retaining a VMFS volume from ESX 4.0 and later, a dialog box appears with an option to retain
the existing service console disk.
18 To preserve the service console virtual disk, select Preserve the existing COS VMDK file and click OK.
If you choose to retain the existing COS VMDK file but do not have enough space to retain it, the installation
cannot continue.
N The existing COS VMDK file can be accessed later to retrieve any files from the previous installation,
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but it is not reused for the installation.
19 Configure advanced options.
a Configure a location for the VMFS datastore to store the service console.
Create new datastore – Select the same disk as ESX or select another disk. If you select another
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disk, the disk used for the ESX location contains only the
rest of the disk is unpartitioned. The second disk is formatted as a single VMFS partition that
spans the entire disk.
You can create additional partitions post-install, using the vSphere Client.
Use existing datastore – Select an existing datastore available to the host.
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VMFS2 volumes are not recognized by ESX 4.0.
The service console must be installed on a VMFS datastore that is resident on a host's local disk or on
a SAN disk that is masked and zoned to that particular host only. The datastore cannot be shared
between hosts.
b Create new partitions and edit or delete the default partitions.
VMware recommends that you retain the
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Description
The installer configures the default partitions on a single hard drive or LUN
where you install ESX. The default partitions are sized based on the capacity
of the hard drive or LUN. If you have an existing ESX installation, you are
prompted to retain it.
Allows you to specify esxconsole.vmdk partition settings, kernel options,
and a bootloader location and password. If you leave the Configure boot
loader automatically option selected, the installer places the boot loader in
the master boot record (MBR). If you have an existing ESX installation, you
are prompted to retain it.
partition of 2000MB.
/var/log
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/boot vmkcore
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