I haven't installed VMWare in a while, just bought essentials and I'm building a host that will ultimately host 3-5 servers. This server is an HP server with a 6 terabyte RAID5 array that hasn't been partitioned yet. Quick questions:
1. When installing ESXi is there an option to choose the size of the partition, and if so what is the recommended size based on number of VMs?
2. I'm hosting Windows servers. Windows recommends the OS, data, and swap file on different partitions for performance. Since they're all on the same VM and disk I./O is managed by VMWare, is there any benefit to doing this?
I'm researching this in the documentation, but any tips or links to documentation are appreciated.