Can ESXi coexist with other operating systems on one screw?

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Vladimir Kivva2012-10-14 15:15:15

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Vladimir Kivva, 2012-10-14 15:15:15

There is a hard drive that has ESXi installed, then virtual systems are installed in ESXi. Task: At the end of the HDD, allocate space for installing a separate OS (for example, Windows 7). Having opened the HDD through Acronis, I can’t understand at all what is happening there. It displays a bunch of FAT16 partitions. The partitions do not match the volumes of the installed OS.

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railzamaletdinov, 2012-10-15
@railzamaletdinov

I can recommend the following method:
1. split the hard disk for system installation and into a partition that will be in vmfs for esxi.
2. install esxi on a flash drive, 4 GB will be enough, since no more than 200 MB is used for the system itself, the rest will go for crash dumps and the rest.
3. Install Windows on the remaining partition.
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5. Profit.

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Maxim Klyushkov, 2012-10-14
@m_klyushkov

If you constantly reboot from ESXi to Windows and vice versa, then all the advantages of ESXi are lost. Maybe just install VMware Workstation?

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cepera_ang, 2012-10-14
@cepera_ang

Boot ESXi from a flash drive (it fits perfectly there). And you will need to give one disk for windows, the other for esxi. Today it is possible even in laptops. In general, workstation, as they advise here, is quite the way out. You won’t even notice the difference if the hardware is powerful enough, unless you worry about the fact that everything was done “not optimally”, but this goes away as you play enough :)