JonathanWong
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Hello to all
My question is regarding the swap disk used by Esxi to hold the HA config for each host.
We have 4 ESXi4.1 hosts (blade enclosure C7000 - Fibre to SAN) and a HA User-world Swap Disk on SAN which is 5gb in size. There is only 438mb left on this drive. I understand that each host will require its scratch config to point to a vmfs folder on this drive and this takes up 1gb of space for each host, so my question is can i create a second V disk on the SAN, present it to the Esxi hosts, and use the Storage > Properties > Increase on the current User-world drive to span the new V disk to the existing User-world V disk?
Im concerned about data loss if doing this. Basically I would like some advice or best practise on increasing the size of the HA User-world Swap Disk and if this can be done live as we have over 40 VM's and I am not able to shutdown all the VM's and reboot the hosts in one go.
Any advice appreciated
Many thanks
Regards
John
My question is regarding the swap disk used by Esxi to hold the HA config for each host.
We have 4 ESXi4.1 hosts (blade enclosure C7000 - Fibre to SAN) and a HA User-world Swap Disk on SAN which is 5gb in size. There is only 438mb left on this drive. I understand that each host will require its scratch config to point to a vmfs folder on this drive and this takes up 1gb of space for each host, so my question is can i create a second V disk on the SAN, present it to the Esxi hosts, and use the Storage > Properties > Increase on the current User-world drive to span the new V disk to the existing User-world V disk?
Im concerned about data loss if doing this. Basically I would like some advice or best practise on increasing the size of the HA User-world Swap Disk and if this can be done live as we have over 40 VM's and I am not able to shutdown all the VM's and reboot the hosts in one go.
Any advice appreciated
Many thanks
Regards
John