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fletch00
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Relocating vswp (swap) file locations

We ran into a situation where we could not unmount an NFS datastore due to open file handles.

This turned out to be due to the open, but unused swapfiles for 5 VMs

If you run into this situation, there are a few methods to relocate the swap files and unmount the datastore - detailed here:

http://www.vmadmin.info/2012/01/3-vswp-relocation-methods.html

thanks

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