Comments on: If VMware ESXi 4 is so small, why is it so big?

By: Коротко о файловой системе и процессе загрузки ESXi-я « "V" for Virtualization

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:36:13 +0000

[...] http://geeksilver.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/esxi-era-using-esxi-to-replace-esx-installation-part-3/ http://www.vcritical.com/2009/08/if-vmware-esxi-4-is-so-small-why-is-it-so-big/ Документация от VMware Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailPrintLike this:LikeBe the first [...]

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Sat, 14 May 2011 22:43:50 +0000

You are right. The benefit of ESXi is the absence of a general-purpose OS – far less patching of components completely unrelated to the host/hypervisor.

By: Rafael Guedes

Rafael Guedes — Sat, 14 May 2011 14:37:32 +0000

Hi Eric,

Thanks for this nice post. I had misconfigured opinion about that, now I can explain to my colleagues and mainly to our customers.

aharden and Eric, please correct me if I’m wrong. But is the point here disk utilization or OS code to maintin? I always though this VMware claim as a way to show how small your code is, easily to maintain, less patches to apply, etc. Because that, I really never was concerned about ESXi was using 5GB or, 500MB.

By: اپگیرید از ESX 4 به ESXi 4.1

اپگیرید از ESX 4 به ESXi 4.1 — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:48:45 +0000

[...] کنید. برای اطلاعات بیشتر دراین خصوص رجوع شود به: VMware ESXi 4 disk footprint is 59MB | VCritical از طرفی ارتقا از ESX به ESXi به این دلیل قابل انجام نیست [...]

By: VMWARE ESXi 4.0 Partitions on 1GB Flash drive or Hard Disk | Computer Repair, Networking, Servers, VMware, Virus Removal

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:59:16 +0000

[...] a look at this blog for details on what each partition contains: http://www.vcritical.com/2009/08/if-vmware-esxi-4-is-so-small-why-is-it-so-big/ Share and [...]

By: Andrew Storrs

Andrew Storrs — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:54:19 +0000

Alasdair, why not configure a syslog server for each of the ESXi hosts and then you won’t have to worry about the local log files?

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1016621

By: Alasdair Carnie

Alasdair Carnie — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:38:56 +0000

Hi Eric,

Thanks for this article. It answered an important question that comes up quite frequently from my delegates and has cleared up the “How big is ESXi” question once and for all.

Slightly off Topic. Given that the ESXi log files do not survive a system reboot, would it be possible to create an extra partition on the remaining 1GB on a 2GB USB Stick and store the log files on there? I’m looking to get rid of the scratch partition and store the logs somewhere other than the local VMFS partition. This is so I can delete and recreate the local VMFS partition when I reset student servers every week.

By: Ulli Hankeln

Ulli Hankeln — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:34:14 +0000

I use a similar technic to create a USB device with different ESXi options – like run ESX4i and ESX35i – see http://sanbarrow.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=67

Ulli

By: Why Should I Install ESXi instead of ESX? « DeinosCloud

Why Should I Install ESXi instead of ESX? « DeinosCloud — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:01:49 +0000

[...] too much. Thus if we could get rid of the COS, we end up with a smaller footprint, in this case just a bit less than 64MB instead of several [...]

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:47:47 +0000

Thanks, Simon. Glad you found it useful.

Eric