Best practices ESX Partition

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• Best practices: multiple partitions on a single vmdk or partition by vmdk

  Hello all-

  I would like to get your opinions on the best practices for the vmdk file server installation program.

  The drive C partition would be allotted for the operating system, while E, F... to store the data of the partitions.

  configuration 1:

  vmdk1 = thick disk of provisioned by a partition of drive c.

  vmdk2 = thickness accommodation provisioned disk partitions E, f...

  Installer 2

  vmdk1 = thick disk of provisioned by a C partition

  vmdk2 = thick disk of provisioned by a partition E

  vmdk3 = thick disk of provisioned by a partition F

  .......

  Also the partitions of multiple data configured as independent + permanent virtual disks due to snapshots. My logic is that OS (C drive) is used for snapshots in test of new software for example while the data partitions act as the storage disks that need to keep the most recent files regardless of the return to an older snapshot. BTW data partitions regularly are Word, excel, photos and so on.

  also, I realize that I could have a single example, E: data with several shared folders partition, but given that each folder is for another Department could cause more trouble when space more and more in the future. Great VMDK could take more time to develop. Not sure again.

  Thank you

  Hello

  in general, virtualization does not change much on the disk IO.

  You can use the same rules that you would use to size a physical server.

  Multiple vmdk mean multiple targets for your I/o load.

  Best solution if IO load/troughput high or low response time should be reached, you create multiple VMDK and spread over several data stores.

  HtH

• Best practices of a partition of HDD on Windowes Server2008 and Windowes 2012

  What is the best practice for partition of HDD on Windowes Server 2008 and 2012 Windowes

  Could be interesting to ask more http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winservergen/threads that you can get more answers.

  That said I would say that very much depends on what you intend to do with the server, and of course how much space you have available.

  For a general server I would probably go with two volumes, the C:\ drive for the file system and a second volume for your data, for example E:\. I recommend at LEAST 30 GB for the C:\, 40-50 GB preference, since updates, patches, etc will burn way over time and it's much easier to start big than to try to develop later.

  If you are running the Terminal Services, then you will probably need a larger C:\ amount as a large part of the user profile data is stored there in order to run lack of space fairly easily.

  As I said, it depends on what you do, how much space and disks you have available etc, it isn't really a one-size-fits-all answers.

• Swap Partition - best practices

  Hi all

  What is considered a best practice to create the swap partition?

  ESX 4 is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server version 5.1,

  I searched their knowledge base and found the following article:

  Q. If I add several hundred GB of RAM for a system should I really more

  hundreds of GB of swap space? (kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-15252)

  A. short answer:

  • Systems with 4 GB of ram or less require a minimum of 2 GB of swap space

  • Systems with 4 GB to 16 GB of ram require a minimum of 4 GB of swap space

  • Systems with 16 GB to 64 GB of ram require a minimum of 8 GB of swap space

  • Systems with 64 GB, 256 GB of ram require a minimum of 16 GB of swap space

  Thanks in advance,

  Ronen.

  1.6 GB as the Service Console is limited to 800 MB of memory.

  Duncan

  VMware communities user moderator | VCP | VCDX

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• best practices for networking for esx / vsphere 6

  best practices for networking for esx / vsphere 6

  Refer to VMware best practices documentation to get the depth on the networks.

  https://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Techpaper/VMware-PerfBest-practices-vSphere6-0.PDF

  https://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2107948

  https://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Techpaper/VMW_Netioc_BestPractices.PDF

  See also below article for best practices documentation relating to the different versions of vSphere.

  http://vmwareinsight.com/articles/2016/5/5798853/best-practices-for-VMware-vSphere-architecture

• Best practices for the Vm disk partitioning

  I want to create a server of Windows 2012 by c:\ and d:\ partitions what the best practice it is btw SQL database server. Should I create a hd c: and then add another hd d:\ all on the same data store. I read that the use of applications and partitioning tools is more metal applications for real and to create a virtual machine two separate readers would be too easy and better recovery or future expansion on the drive.

  Thank you

  Mike

  Note: Discussion moved successfully to vSphere SDK comments on Virtual Machine & Guest OS
  Yes, create a separate virtual disk (VMDK) for each partition or volume under Windows. If the workload is light - to begin with, you can leave all VMDK in working area of the virtual machine and then if you need to divide the discs in different data stores you can do it later.
  What can talk you about your workload and virtual infrastructure you have - you what version of vSphere are registered for the?

• Best practices for configuring network ESX

  Suppose I have a small resource ESX server with only two physical network cards to work only a few virtual machines.  There are only two physical network adapters cannot be added.  Still, best practice would dictate that this service console would be on its own dedicated physical NIC?  In this scenario puts service console and all the VMs on a pair of network cards grouped better because if a NETWORK card fails both the service console and all virtual machines are still available?  In this case the bandwidth is very low and contention for the network bandwidth is not a problem. Thank you

  Hello.

  Check out "Blue Gears - 2 with VMware ESX physical NIC" of Edward Haletky for some good info on it.

  Good luck!

• Best practices and security on ESX 3.5

  Can someone point me to some documents final regarding the ESX Server security and best practices related to securing the ESX host.

  Things like not to use the account Root, regular patching esx low locking? ...

  Thank you.

  Concerning

  Joe

  Hello.

  Try the Security Hardening Best Practices document.

  Good luck!

• Upgrading ESX 3.0.2 for 3.5 - best practices and tips

  Hello

  I am currently managing a virtual environment running on ESX 3.0.2 and VC 2.0.2. I intend to upgrade this year to ESX 3.5 and VC 2.5. Anyone know where I can find information on best practices to upgrade and / or a document of instructions that will take me through the process? I had a glance on the VMWare Web site but cannot find anything.

  See you soon

  G

  I have attached a document with this information.

  First of all you must upgrade the VC and the database, then you must upgrade from ESX.

  Kind regards.

• Best practices for controlling Remote Sites ESX servers

  Hi all

  I was wondering what the best practices or the options are for the management of the ESX servers in remote offices or branch.  I know that you can always use the VI to control on the site server, but what happens if you want to use some of the functions of the virtual Center?  How remotely manage and leverage capacity of Virutal Center in remote sites or branch offices, since you can't have Virutal Center installed in a domain.

  Other then a VPN dedicated to all remote offices or a branch is there another way to use Virtual Center to remotely manage the ESX servers in remote offices or branch?

  What are your current plans DR if the main site is going to host VC?

  You can run your VC in a VM and have power clone on a remote site or both incase of total failure.

  Then with the help of RCL etc. under the texiwill recommend and/or vMotion VM VC to other sites if necessary.

  Andy, VMware Certified Professional (VCP), http://www.vmadmin.co.uk/

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• ESX 3.5 and SQL best practices

  I searched for info on best practices when deploying SQL on the virtual computer. We already have a couple of lightweight SQL production servers running 2008 x 64 and SQL 2005. We are looking for migrating databases existing physical servers to a 2008 newly deployed x 64 SQL VM, I was able to find documents of Vmware and turned to the forum and information. This are not the giant databases - of things such as BES, EPolicy and other mundane but necessary databases. Even more to divide readers to separate newspapers, the sys and databases? Any advice would be appreciated.

  Take a look on:

  Best Practices for SQL Server

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/solutions/sql_server_virtual_bp.PDF

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/SQLServerWorkloads.PDF

  André

• vSphere 5 ESXi host - RAID config best practice?

  Hi all

  I'm pretty new to VMWare and wonder what's the best Setup for RAID

  I have a HP DL380 G7 with SAS 4 x 600 GB discs.

  It is a simple server lab/DR, and I intend on creating a RAID-5 volume with no hostspare. Can I partition the RAID and put the ESX software on a small partition and use the other partition for the data store? If possible it is best practice?

  I imagine there will be a performance by having the same RAID volume, making of the reads/writes on the ESX software and storage at the same time. Would I be better to throw some 72 GB in RAID 1 on the server so just for the ESX software and maybe to store some ISOs?

  Thank you!

  B

  Don't worry ESXi. It works entirely in memory and only stores the configuration changes and logs on the HARD drive. I'd go with the RAID5 configuration that you mentioned.

  André

• / var/log is full. Best practices?

  One of the score of the newspaper of our host is 100% full. I'm not the practice administrator for this host, but manage/deploy the virtual machines it for others to use.

  I was wondering what's the best practice to deal with a more complete log partition? I found an article that mentioned editing the file /etc/logrotate.d/vmkernel/ so that files

  be compressed more often and saved for less often, but there was no real clear instructions on what to change and how.

  Is the only way to investigate on the console itself or the directory/var/log via putty? No there is no way to see VIC?

  Thank you

  Hello

  To solve the immediate problem, I would transfer to any newspaper in/var/log with a number at the end is dire.1,.2, etc. to a temporary storage outside the ESX host location. You could run something similar to the following command of the scp to do:

  scp /var/log/*.[0-9]* /var/log/*/*.[0-9]* host:TemporaryDir
  

  Or you can use winscp to transfer of the ESX host in a windows box. A you get the files from existing logs from the system for later playback, use the following to clear the space:

  cd /var/log; rm *.[0-9]* */*.[0-9]*
  

  I would therefore consist logrotation thus directed by hardening for VMware ESX.

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• Best practices for vsphere 5.1

  where can I find the doc more up-to-date about berries EQL configuration / best practices with vmware vsphere 5.1

  Hello

  Here is a link to a PDF file that covers best practices for ESXi and EQL.

  Best EqualLogic practices ESX

  en.Community.Dell.com/.../20434601.aspx

  This doc mentions specifically that the storage Heartbeat VMKernel port is no longer necessary with ESXi v5.1.  VMware has corrected the problem that made it necessary.

  If you add it to a 5.1 system it will not hurt.  It will take an IP address for each node.

  If you upgrade 5.0 to 5.1, you can delete it later.

  Here is a link to VMware which addresses this issue and has links to other Dell documents which confirm also that it is fixed in 5.1.

  KB.VMware.com/.../Search.do

  Kind regards

• Best practices to move a volume

  Hello

  What is the best practice to move a volume to a PS4100 to another PS6100

  PS two are not in the same group.

  Today, we have a PS5000 which reproduce on the PS4100. The administrator create 2 volumes on the PS4100 (because there is not enough space on the PS5000).

  We will replace the PS5000 with a new PS6100XV, and we want to move the volume of the PS4100 to the new PS6100.

  What is easiest way to do this with minimal downtime on this volume?

  I think that it is best to create a replica of volume 2 of the PS4100 to the new PS6100, disconnect the volume of the PS4100 and put the volume on the PS6100 online. fix?

  Thank you

  You can replicate as you have described.  Depending on the host operating system it may be easier to do at the level of the host.   With VMware ESX, you can move live VMS using vMotion Storage.