Netapp didn't mean "OS swap" :) They aren't aware of what OS is inside of your vm's or if it has a swap. BTW, if the swap disappears under windows it will BSOD for sure.
They were referring to the host swap, heh... jlc From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ESX and NetApp best practice question List, Friend of mine is implementing ESX 3.5 on a filer and he is asking me if he should follow NetApp's advice on separating out the swap files on a different LUN to better "manage" snapshots. Now, I'm not a NetApp dude but I don't by this for the following reasons: 1. Another layer of complexity 2. Properly sized VMs (RAM) shouldn't be tapping the page file that much 3. Something happens to that swap LUN and performance tanks and/or OS blue screens 4. Recovery issues. (This maybe a stretch) I say keep the swap\temp directory on the same volume unless some non-standard requirements come into play Any of you NetApp\ESX admins have any feedback? Shook ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
