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Deployment Guide
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
Size Notes
(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
Console Memory
This is the swap partition
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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