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vSwap, changing location ?

HendersonD
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I have three ESX 3.5 hosts and for all of my VMs the vSwap file is stored with my virtual machine. I want to create a centralized datastore on a separate volume to house the vSwap files. Do I need to create 3 separate datastores to do this? In other words, do the vSwap files for each ESX host need to reside on separate datastores or can they reside on one datastore?

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amiller_1
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You can definitely do it with one datastore -- either VMFS or NFS. See page 66 of TR-3428 for more details.

http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3428.pdf

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