# Disk partitions for vsphere nodes

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/disk-partitions-for-vsphere-nodes/41640>\
**Category:** SUSE Rancher Prime\
**Created:** [September 26, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disk-partitions-for-vsphere-nodes/41640 "2023-09-26T13:40:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disk-partitions-for-vsphere-nodes/41640/1 "2023-09-26T13:40:58Z")

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Hi,

I am new here so excuse me if the question is too basic, I search the web but I did not fin the answer.

I connected rancher to vCenter and I can provision nodes from one template. I can set the CPU RAM and size of disk. However, it is not clear for me how to create the disk partition of the template. Should I use plain partitions? could I use LVM? when rancher deploys the nodes from template, can rancher grow the partition/LVM? If I need to setup additional disks for cloud native storage such as Rook or Longhorn, how can I launch the node with additional disks?

Thanks for your help 🙂