Hello,
Where is ESX 3.5 host swap file located, what size and how do I know how much is being used? I am thinking about not taking up all disk space.
Thank you very much
Welcoem to te Communities - Are you referring to the per VM vmkernel swap file or The Service Console swap file - if you are referring to the per vmvmkernel swap than te other posters answer is correct - if you are referring to the Service Console swap file that is created and set during the installation of ESX and a seperate partition is created
by default the location is a folder of each virtual machine.
Added Jun 23, 2009, By Duncan Epping with 28 Comments
A question that pops up on the VMTN Community once every day is what size VMFS datastore should I create? The answer always varies, one says “500Gb” the other says “1TB”. Now the real answer should be, it depends.
Most companies can use a simple formula in my opinion. First you should answer these questions:
If you don’t know what the maximum amount of VMs should be just use a safe number, anywhere between 10 and 15. Here’s the formula I always use:
round((maxVMs * avgSize) + 20% )
I usually use increments of 25GB. This is where the round comes in to play. If you end up with 380GB round it up to 400GB and if you end up with 321GB round it up to 325GB. Let’s assume your average VM size is 30GB and your max amount of VMs per VMFS volume is 10:
(10*30) + 60 =360
360 rounded up -> 375GB
Welcoem to te Communities - Are you referring to the per VM vmkernel swap file or The Service Console swap file - if you are referring to the per vmvmkernel swap than te other posters answer is correct - if you are referring to the Service Console swap file that is created and set during the installation of ESX and a seperate partition is created
Hello,
How can I see it[the swap file]?
Thank you
Hi David,
I am referring to the service console host file.
I see no /swap in the , like cd / and ls, I followed the default ESX server installation.
Thank you very much,
Calin
IF you used the defaults then the swap size will be 544 MB - this was the default size in ESX 3,5 - /swap as I recall will not show using regular file system commands - you can try df -h or the free command - free will show you how much is being used -