Does anyone have a best practice doc for the location of the ESXi Swap file location?
We are debating whether to store this on local storage, or whether it is OK on the Filer that hosts our VMs. I am guessing there may be a performance benefit - but am not sure how much difference it would make.
Any whitepapers would be great . . I can't find any!
Thanks Again Andre - but I am hoping for some reasoning as to why local is better, perhaps a best practice guide?
Local swap file introduces additional cost for hardwaer, sO I am trying to determine whether there are any benefits in haveing the local Swap that make the hardware worth the spend.
This seems to be an older thread but I wanted to see if I could take it a bit further.
I'd like to get some input or documentation that outlines the best practices to scale configuring ESXi swap files.
Scenario: 16 ESXi hosts
Options that I see:
1) Configure all the ESXi host swap files on one dedicated datastore
2) Spread the ESXi host swap files across all available datastores
3) Configure all the ESXi host swap files on one datastore with other VMs
Which is the best option and what have others done? Does swap files require Tier I storage or can we get away with Tier II or Tier III storage?
There are a lot of assumptions here but I'd like to evaluate the best option. Thanks!
