Hello All, Good Day to you!
In my customer environment, we have a 100GB LUN specified solely for swapping. However it is now full, with only 322 MB remaining - and right now it doesn't allow any host vMotion saying that there isn't enough free space. When I browse the relevant data store I can see a lot of .vswp files ans some .swp files ( I am attching the data store ). As far as I know a VM seperates out for itself a capacity equal to it's guest memory size on the swap space. What would be the best way to figure out which .vswp files are not required, and which are ? I can easily expand this LUN on the VNX, but would that be god administering - anyways on the LUN properties, I can see that it is only using 4+% - How does that figure with what is told me in the VMware front ( I would be asking this in an EMC forum seperately ) ?
Basically is there any adminstration guide with regards to virtual memory usage in VMware ? Or should I simply expand the LUN and add the expanded capacity on the VMware side ? What is the difference between vmx-XXXX.vswp, XXXX.vswp and sysswp-xyz.swp , where XXXX presents VMname ?
Regards,
Naleendra