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Luca82
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Enthusiast

About vswp dimension with hot add

Hi everyone, since the dimension of vswp equals the assigned ram (consider no reservation), what happens if I hot add virtual ram on a virtual machine? Does the vswp hot-increase its dimension or not? Thank you

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Alex_Romeo
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Leadership

Hi,

since the ram swap file is created when the virtual machine is turned on, the file does not increase in size until the next VM restart.

see manual at the following link (page 37):

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-672-resource-management-gu...

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berndweyand
Expert
Expert

i couldnt believe that so i have testet it. vm with hotadd-mem and increased mem during runtime. the vswp was increased immediately

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