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jonathanp
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vswp on shared storage question...

Hi,

    we are looking to maybe put vswp for all our VMs on a dedicated (not mirrored ) LUN that will serve only that purpose.

That is to reduce the size of the data that is replicated with global mirror and therfor save storage.

The question I have is, what would be the consequence if we have a lots of VMs that has their vswp file on that datastore and for any reason that become unavailable ( lost paths / deleted by accident by storage team / major crash etc..)

Would all the VMs that have their vswp on the datastore would be affected and in what way?

Thanks

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jonathanp
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No one???  Smiley Sad

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weinstein5
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If the VMs are not able to access their swap files they will not be able to start and I believe would crash - 

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