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ESX Server 3 and VirtualCenter Installation Guide

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4ReadthroughtheenduserlicenseagreementandselecttheIhavereadandaccept

thetermsinthelicenseagreementcheckbox.

IftheESX ServersystemwillhaveastaticIPaddress,theNetworkingOptions

pageappears.

IftheESX ServersystemwilluseDHCP,skiptoStep 7.

5Enterthehost

nameintheHostnamefield,theIPaddressintheIPAddressfield,

thenetmaskintheNetmaskfield,thenetworkgatewayintheGatewayfield,and

thedomainnameserverintheNameserverfield.

Includethefulldomainnameifyouarerunningwithdomains.

6ClickNexttocontinue.

The

PartitionConfigurationpageappears.

7UnderPartitionConfiguration,specifythefollowingforeachpartitioninthe

serviceconsole:

 IntheDrivelist,selectfromthelistofdisks.

 IntheMountPointfield,specifythemountpoint.

 Ataminimum,youshouldspecifytheboot(/boot)androot(/)mount

points.

 IntheSizefield,specifythesizeofthepartitioninmegabytes(MB).Specify

anintegervaluehere,suchas500.DonotappendthenumberwithMB.

See Appendix A,“ESX ServerPartitioning,”onpage 97forrecommended

partitionsizes.

 IntheTypelist,selectthetypeoffilesystem.Choosefromvmfs,vmcore,ext3,

andswap.Selectswapifthepartitionisaswappartition.Youmustcreatea

swappartition.

 SelecttheGrowcheckboxifyouwantthepartitiontogrowuntilitfillsthe

availablespaceonthedisk(ifany),oruptothemaximumsizesetting.

VMwarerecommendsyoudonotletyourbootandswappartitionsgrow.