The best location for the .vswp file

I use RecoveProint EMC to replicate my virtual machine for use with MRS. While the implimentaion of EMC RecoverPoint recommended that we allocate a hard sepperate for pagefile guest on a non replicated operating system LUN as the page file on the guest has been constantly evolving.  We have seen a significant reduction in the rate change that enabled us to reach the RPO we were after and with our bandwidth allocated for replication.  I am able to reproduce the LUN for the swap of OS files once and leave.   I'm utilizeing now the option "Migrate storage" with in VCenter to consolidate the VM running on a given LUN and I noticed that when I move a hard to the BONE (not hard for the OS swap) two hard files are transferred to the new location.  Then I discovered that to move one of the files hard for a given virtual machine I have to turn off the virtual machine and to migrate the only hard.  Not perfect, but whatever. To do this, I noticed that the "VM workplace" has been changed to the location of my guest operating system swap file hard.

It asked if it is a good place for hosting the .vswp.  The .vswp has a significant amount of change as well?  And as the OS swap hard matches the basically wiped clean during a restart?

Hope it makes sense.

The .vswp file is created on the virtual machine market. Its size is equal to the amount of UNRESERVED vRAM. This means that if you have a virtual machine with 4 GB of vRAM, but 3 GB is reserved, the .vswp is 1 GB. The .vswp is used as a last resort, if there is a physical RAM memory conflict. It is called after the transparent page sharing or balooning. If you allocate no more of RAM physical vRAM, then it will never be used. BUT, it is removed turn off power and created on the power. If the virtual machine is always on, so no worries with a bandwidth of replication.

You can place files .vswp on local storage or a separate logical unit number. As Andrew said, you can make this a whole cluster framework if you want. It's all about management. If you are comfortable with it being separated from the .vmx, nvram, etc.. Usually, the concern is the amount of what is essentially lost a costly LUN disk, so it is moved to the cheaper SCSI disk. Assuming that there is no oversubscription of RAM, it will never be used. Rather than taking up valuable disk space, why not just use a reserve of memory in order to avoid its use definitely?

Dave Convery

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