Page, Jeremy wrote:
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
Actually, I remember that VMware suggests you use iSCSI (or FC) for swap. I couldn't find any pointers easily, could be my knowledge on this is outdated. But, I would certainly not put swap on the same volume, with or without A-SIS. Swapfiles are a very movable targets, and it's no point snapvaulting them either.