Specification

Deployment best practices
16 Dell EMC Best Practices for Running VMware ESXi 6.5 or Later Clusters on XC Series Appliances and XC Core
Systems | A03
4 Deployment best practices
4.1 Virtual disk provisioning
Dell EMC recommends using thin provisioning disks in an XC Series environment, as thick eager-zero virtual
disks offer no performance benefits over a thin virtual disk.
For further information, see Nutanix KB 1591
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4.2 SYSLOG
Except for VMware NSX implementations, the configuration of a remote SYSLOG server is not an absolute
requirement; however, there are benefits and use cases for such an implementation. For example:
• Central monitoring of ESXi hosts.
• Persistent logging in situations where the boot device becomes inaccessible or read-only.
Refer to VMware KB 2003322
for detailed information on SYSLOG configuration.
NOTE: Dell EMC does not recommend moving the ESXi scratch partition to Nutanix NFS, as this may
become inaccessible in the event of a cluster stop event.