The vCenter Server Appliance in vSphere6 can be deployed as "tiny", "small", "medium", and "large". The deployment wizard gives info about the vCPU and vRAM consequences of this choice, and about the total disk size of the appliance. But as there's 11 (eleven!) disks attached to the VCSA appliance, it's worth looking into which disks get a different size.
N.B. I currently don't have the config data for "large".
This table can help if your environment is growing slightly or wildly beyond the original sizing of the VCSA. Using the autogrow command in @lamw's article, you can easily grow the relevant parts of the VCSA VM.
| Tiny | Small | Medium | ||
| Max hosts | 10 | 100 | 400 | |
| Max VMs | 100 | 1000 | 4000 | |
| vCPU | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
| vRAM | 8 | 16 | 24 | |
| Disk size | 120 | 150 | 300 | |
| disk0 | / and /boot | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| disk1 | /tmp/mount | 1,3 | 1,3 | 1,3 |
| disk2 | swap | 25 | 25 | 50 |
| disk3 | /storage/core | 25 | 50 | 50 |
| disk4 | /storage/log | 10 | 10 | 25 |
| disk5 | /storage/db | 10 | 10 | 25 |
| disk6 | /storage/dblog | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| disk7 | /storage/seat | 10 | 25 | 50 |
| disk8 | /storage/netdump | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| disk9 | /storage/autodeploy | 10 | 10 | 25 |
| disk10 | /storage/invsvc | 5 | 10 | 25 |
N.B. I currently don't have the config data for "large".
This table can help if your environment is growing slightly or wildly beyond the original sizing of the VCSA. Using the autogrow command in @lamw's article, you can easily grow the relevant parts of the VCSA VM.
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