Thank you @pmichelli i Greatly appreciate it .
My very recent call to vmware support Swore by U3d... that it was Just fine .
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We were also told many times that 7.0.2c was OK for SD cards... thanks a Million for that heads up.. you have saved me many hours .
Do you mind me asking how long the servers w/ the SD cards have had the 7.0.1 E ? Do they get rebooted at all ?.. May i presume thats when one 'finds out' they are dead ?.. when you reboot ?. as Esxi would be fully in mem yes ? .. or does it just die out right ?
So theres no way to just 'relocate' the swap file that kills the SD cards to a NAS / SAN ?... i would presume not.. otherwise people just would have done that .
thanks again .