Pagefile Question

[Speedbmp]

The VM we are testing is a windows 2003 64bit, sql 2005 64bit box with 16gig of ram. now the question is how big should the pagefile be or it is even needed anymore.

Stephen

[admin]

Treat the VM exactly as you would in a physical environment with similar resources.

Please review the following Microsoft KB article, entitled "How to determine the appropriate page file size for 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889654

[TomHowarth]

as the other poster says treat the guest exactly as you would a phyiscal box the windows OS has no idea it is not running on phyiscal hardware. I create a Swapfile Volume on my storage and create a LUN to hold a swap drive, I do this so as to exclude the Swap file from any Snap shot I am doing

Tom Howarth

VMware Communities User Moderator