Comments on: New release – vmreference card 1.3

By: Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:21:28 +0000

Hi Brian,
You can modify the partition details if you use a scripted install (ESX and vCenter Server Installation Guide, Page 59), but not with an interactive install.
Duncan Epping started a discussion on his blog about the partition sizing here: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/05/27/partitioning-your-esx-host-part-ii/
Looking at Duncan’s suggestion, I’d probably advocate something similar, although I don’t tend to use the /home partition much, so would probably chop that down a bit.
I’m sure there will be a discussion on the forum somewhere. Anyone know?

By: Brian D

Brian D — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:15:14 +0000

Do you have any tips on partition sizes for ESX4 (vSphere?) I’m trying it based on the 3.5 recommendations, but I noticed you no longer have the option to force primary partitions and apparently you can’t modify the size of the /boot partition. Thoughts?

By: Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:46:31 +0000

Hi Town Mouse,
Thanks for the update. I’m planning on updating the current card in the next couple of weeks. I’m busily working my way through the new version 4 documentation, gathering information for version 4 of my reference card.
Forbes.

By: Town Mouse

Town Mouse — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:10:47 +0000

In the ESXi section, that would be resxtop (not vicfg-resxtop) and vihostupdate (not vihostupdates).
See http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_rcli.pdf
thanks!

By: Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:56:41 +0000

Hi David,
I’m afraid I don’t, but I’m more than happy to email you the source document (I use a cross platform, open source tool called Scribus), if you send me your email address.
Forbes.

By: David Meekins

David Meekins — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:56:56 +0000

Hi
Do you have a version which does not include the old 3.0 values e.g vSwitches = 127 (ESX 3.0 was 248) … I’m going to take my VCP it is hard enough trying remember the correct values let alone see the old values ..

Please , thanks

By: Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:09:19 +0000

Hi Robert,
I’d be very interested in adding these, and any top tips for VDI environments. However I haven’t used VDI much, so I wouldn’t know what to include. Do you have a list of the maximums and any suggestions for the more common commands and things to remember? Is there any good PDFs? Thanks, Forbes.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:04:49 +0000

Great reference saves looking at vmware’s millions of pdfs
Could you add VDI maximums etc to the reference sheet too (or make a seperate one as looks a bit full already)?