Partitions on SSD for the hypervisor host of vSphere5 (Free Edition)

Hello

This will be my first installation of a system of 5 hypervisor vSphere (Free Edition). My new PC will contain an SSD (120GB) for the vSphere host and VMs. in addition, it will contain a RAID controller with multiple SATA drives for data. My questions are:

Do I have to create partitions on the SSD drive for installing vSphere 5?

I read on http://vmetc.com/2009/07/22/best-practices-for-vsphere-esx-4-service-console-partitions/

There is several necessary partiotions. Is the installation program automatically creates those partitions?

Is it possible to store the computer virtual (System of each operating system partition) on this SSD also?

I will store VMs for 2 x Windows7 (approximately 2x30GB), 1 x FreeNAS, 1 x Linux for Zarafa, 1 x Linux for many other services.

Kind regards

Oliver

Hello and welcome to the forums.

Do I have to create partitions on the SSD drive for installing vSphere 5?

No, the installation program will take care of everything for you.

Is it possible to store the computer virtual (System of each operating system partition) on this SSD also?

Yes, the installer will create a VMFS on the SSD volume where you can place these files.

Good luck!

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