February 2011
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
14h 22m
English
book
VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers, 2nd Edition
by Edward Haletky
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Chapter 3. Installation
Installing or upgrading ESX and ESXi host software can take about 20 minutes depending on the hardware involved. However, it takes a lot longer to plan the steps we need to take before we start installing. With proper planning, we can avoid the costly mistake of finding out much later we did not really want to boot from the SAN or that the file system size for root or for log messages is too small and end up reinstalling and starting over again. See the section “Example 4: Office in a Box,” in Chapter 1, “System Considerations,” for a case where changes were necessary that could equate to needing to start over. We also do not want to find out after the fact that the hardware we have on hand is not compatible with the ...