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What is causing the error?

While performing a clean installation of ESX Server, the following partitions were
created using the advanced partitioning option:
/boot = 100 MB
swap = 600 MB
/home = 2000 MB
/vmimages = 10000 MB
/var/log = 1500 MB
VMFS = use all available free space
You receive an error message and cannot continue. What is causing the error (Choose all
that apply)?

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A.
ESX 3.x no longer requires a swap partition.

B.
/home needs to reside on the SAN.

C.
The /boot partition is too small.

D.
The / partition is missing.

Explanation:
ESX and vCenter Server Installation Guide ESX 4.0 vCenter Server 4.0, page 61
Table 7-1. ESX Required Partitions
Mount Point Type Size Location Partition Description
/boot ext3 The ESX boot disk requires 1.25 GB of free space and includes the /boot and
vmkcore partitions. The /boot partition alone requires 1100MB.
/ ext3 Calculated dynamically based on the size of the /usr partition. By default, the
minimum size is 5GB and no /usr partition is defined.
Note: the question uses partition sizes from VI3 days, not vSphere 4


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