3 Comments on “What is the default VFAT scratch partition size for ESXi 5.x?”

1. Tom says:

   August 23, 2012 at 12:29 pm

   4 GB

   
   
   
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   1. rakesh says:

      December 24, 2012 at 5:18 am

      none

      
      
      
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2. 20redwood says:

   March 12, 2013 at 6:22 am

   when booting from local disk or SAN/iSCSI LUN, 4 GB scratch partition is created.
   Due to the I/O sensitivity of USB and SD devices the installer does not create a scratch partition on these devices.
   http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-installation-setup-guide.pdf
   see page 31

   
   
   
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