Hi,
I have the following issue in the environment of a customer.
A 2 node cluster running ESXi 5.0.0 1311175 with Enterprise Plus licenses
various shared datastores for VM's, a dedicated datastore for VM swap files and a dedicated datastore for VMDK's holding the windows swap files
I see in the virtual machine directory on the datastore for VM's that all VM's have a vmx-<vmname>-randomnumber.VSWP file of about 75 MB and they have the VSWP file on the dedicated VM swap datastore.
Both hosts are configured to put the VSWP file on the dedicated datastore and the cluster setting is to store in the datastore specified by the host. The VM's are configured to use default settings (i.e. host or cluster setting).
Normally it wouldn't be a problem but the VM datastores are mirrored over WAN links from one country to another country for backup reasons. All those swap files consume bandwith which I didn't expect. Am I doing something wrong? Can anybody explain it to me?