After installing ESXi7 using a 240G SSD in a dusty NUC, the available space is only 95G. In the system storage, I see that the VMFSL space takes up more than 100G. For me who wants to open multiple virtual machines, this space is not enough;

After a Google search, I found that if you change the VMFSL space, you need to do it during installation. So the following operations are the steps before ESXi7 installation.

Solution

  1. On the first screen of ESXI 7.0 startup during installation, press the shift + O key combination within 5 seconds before starting the installation;

  2. Enter after the displayed cdromBoot runweasel (with spaces)

autoPartitionOSDataSize=8192

Full display:

cdromBoot runweasel autoPartitionOSDataSize=8192

Pay attention to the case. 8192 indicates that the specified OSDataSzie is 8GB. Compared with the 6.7 system, 8GB can fully meet the needs of VMware tools, scratch and coredump space.

Then follow the normal installation process

Reference reading

https://www.azurew.com/vmware/esxi-7-0/3792.html

https://hqyman.cn/post/1659.html