We are in the
preliminary stages of moving our 500 VM system to NFS (from fibre). The goal is
to SnapVault everything off site, and I’d like to use A-SIS on our
production volumes if at all possible (our VMs are almost identical and 95%
reads so this should give us a great level of compression). My question to you
is this:
Should I put the swap
file on a different VMDK and put that in a different volume? The reasoning
behind this is that 1) The swap wants reasonably fast disk and 2) I think that
the swap file will not “play nicely” with A-SIS, at least not as
nicely as normal data and 3) There is no need to actually waste bandwidth
snapping the swap file offsite since it’s not needed to recover the
machines (as long as in a DR standpoint we create the drive that contained the
swap windows will create it at boot).
Thoughts or
experiences welcome.
Jeremy
M. Page____________________
Systems Architect