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Suggest disk size for CenOS vm

phoeneousphoeneous Member Posts: 2,333 ■■■■■■■□□□
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I want to install CentOS on my vm lab box but the hard drive is small. It will only be used for snmp, just cacti. Suggestions?
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    tierstentiersten Member Posts: 4,505
    A couple GB and turn off most packages? Just make a test VM and go through the installation process and see how much it wants to use. You can then delete that VM and make another one. I wouldn't make it smaller than 2GB though just in case you do need to use it for something else in the future.
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    MentholMooseMentholMoose Member Posts: 1,525 ■■■■■■■■□□
    What virtualization platform are you using? You should be able to use a dynamically expanding virtual disk in most cases. For Cacti keep in mind that it has a database back-end so you have to manage the data retention so the database doesn't grow too large.
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    MCSA 2003, LFCS, LFCE (expired), VCP6-DCV
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    phoeneousphoeneous Member Posts: 2,333 ■■■■■■■□□□
    MentholMoose wrote: »
    What virtualization platform are you using?

    VMware Server 2.0. Cacti will be polling less than 20 devices and I won't be using a ton of extensive graphs. Most of it will actually be for host down icmp alerts with the thold addon.
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