Multiple vswp files in VM's Datastore.

[Mike_Pownall]

Hi,

I have noticed that we have multiple vswp files in the datastore area for one of our VM's.

Is this normal & can we delete the vswp.nnnnn ones?

Below is the directory listing.

VMNAME_1-flat.vmdk

VMNAME_1.vmdk

VMNAME-8bd2ff20.hlog

VMNAME-8bd2ff20.vswp

VMNAME-8bd2ff20.vswp.10362* *VMNAME-8bd2ff20.vswp.17426

VMNAME-flat.vmdk

VMNAME.nvram

VMNAME.vmdk

VMNAME.vmsd

VMNAME.vmx

VMNAME.vmxf

Thanks in advance

[dsseagren]

Bump. I'm interested in this as well

[weinstein5]

When you power off the VM do those files remain? Are the time/date stamps current?

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[dsseagren]

one of them goes away but the other doesn't. the timestamp is from a couple months ago. The only thing I can think of is that it's from a vmotion or something.

[weinstein5]

I am assuming VMNAME-8bd2ff20.vswp is the one that goes away - which is what I expected. This is the per VM vmkernel swap file that gets created when the VM is powered on - you can delete the other two files -

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[dsseagren]

yes you are correct. the additional vswp file is named hostname-xxxxx.vswp.xxxxx. Any ideas on why this file exists? Is it from a vmotion that didn't cleanup?

[weinstein5]

No vmotion would not cause this since the files do not move - I am thining that it might have occurred after a host crash - the file was present when the vm restarted so it renamed theoriginal and created a new one -

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