Comments on: Swap files in 3.5 and the EMC Celerra PDF http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/02/05/swap-files-in-35-and-the-emc-celerra-pdf/ Building blocks for virtualization... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:16:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Celerra, NFS and ESX- Purpose Built for You and Me « blog.virtualtacit.com http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/02/05/swap-files-in-35-and-the-emc-celerra-pdf/comment-page-1/#comment-1084 Celerra, NFS and ESX- Purpose Built for You and Me « blog.virtualtacit.com Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:07:48 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/02/05/swap-files-in-35-and-the-emc-celerra-pdf/#comment-1084 [...] Avoid virtual machine swapping to NFS volumes. Edit virtual machine config file to add sched.swap.dir place swap on local storage (supported inline with VMotion in ESX 3.5) [...] [...] Avoid virtual machine swapping to NFS volumes. Edit virtual machine config file to add sched.swap.dir place swap on local storage (supported inline with VMotion in ESX 3.5) [...]

]]> By: D http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/02/05/swap-files-in-35-and-the-emc-celerra-pdf/comment-page-1/#comment-1011 D Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:17:41 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/02/05/swap-files-in-35-and-the-emc-celerra-pdf/#comment-1011 The ESX host usually stores it's swap file on the local drive in a partition formatted as swap by the linux OS. So as long as you didn't change any of the default settings and you have local host storage, that's where it should be. You should be able to go to a console on the host and type fdisk /dev/sda? and then type p to print your partition table to the screen. That will show you all of your partitions. The ESX host usually stores it’s swap file on the local drive in a partition formatted as swap by the linux OS. So as long as you didn’t change any of the default settings and you have local host storage, that’s where it should be. You should be able to go to a console on the host and type fdisk /dev/sda? and then type p to print your partition table to the screen. That will show you all of your partitions.

]]> By: Duncan http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/02/05/swap-files-in-35-and-the-emc-celerra-pdf/comment-page-1/#comment-891 Duncan Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:38:02 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/02/05/swap-files-in-35-and-the-emc-celerra-pdf/#comment-891 Do you mean the VM swap files or... ? Do you mean the VM swap files or… ?

]]> By: rammi http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/02/05/swap-files-in-35-and-the-emc-celerra-pdf/comment-page-1/#comment-890 rammi Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:24:26 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/02/05/swap-files-in-35-and-the-emc-celerra-pdf/#comment-890 any clue where the swap file of the ESX host is located ? any clue where the swap file of the ESX host is located ?

]]> By: Duncan Epping http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/02/05/swap-files-in-35-and-the-emc-celerra-pdf/comment-page-1/#comment-185 Duncan Epping Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:20:20 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/02/05/swap-files-in-35-and-the-emc-celerra-pdf/#comment-185 The benefits are the fact that you're not using expensive SAN storage for swapfiles you hardly use anyway. Especially for iSCSI this can be beneficial when the swapfile is used, every single packet that goes to the iSCSI SAN has an overhead because of translations, I would want to limit that as much as possible. Performance wise I don't know if it really matters... The benefits are the fact that you’re not using expensive SAN storage for swapfiles you hardly use anyway. Especially for iSCSI this can be beneficial when the swapfile is used, every single packet that goes to the iSCSI SAN has an overhead because of translations, I would want to limit that as much as possible.

Performance wise I don’t know if it really matters…

]]> By: Robert http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/02/05/swap-files-in-35-and-the-emc-celerra-pdf/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Robert Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:48:19 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/02/05/swap-files-in-35-and-the-emc-celerra-pdf/#comment-184 I have seen this option, but have wondered, what the benefits were ? Du you have any links to performance comparisons, or am i missing another benefit, of doing this ? I have seen this option, but have wondered, what the benefits were ?

Du you have any links to performance comparisons, or am i missing another benefit, of doing this ?

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